Jeremy Strong

Jeremy Strong (born December 25, 1978) is an American actor.[1] He is best known for his role as Kendall Roy in the HBO television series Succession (2018–present), for which he has won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2020 and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2022.[2][3] Strong has also appeared in a number of films, including The Happening (2008), Lincoln (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Selma (2014), The Big Short (2015), Molly’s Game (2017), The Gentlemen (2019), and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020).

Strong was born in Boston on Christmas Day in 1978 to a father who works in juvenile justice and a hospice nurse mother. He attended public schools in the city’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, a place he often regarded as “somewhere to get out of” until he was 10. Since his parents could not afford to go on vacations outside the Boston area, they put a canoe on cinder blocks in the family’s backyard; Strong and his brothers would often sit in it and pretend to take trips.[4]

When Strong was 10, his parents moved the family to the suburb of Sudbury,[5] for better schools. Strong recalls Sudbury as “a kind of country-club town where we didn’t belong to the country club”. His interest in acting began there, as he became involved with a children’s theater group and performing in musicals.