Noah Emmerich

Noah Nicholas Emmerich (born February 27, 1965) is an American actor and director who is best known for his roles in films such as Beautiful Girls (1996), The Truman Show (1998), Frequency (2000), Miracle (2004), Little Children (2006) and Super 8 (2011). From 2013 to 2018 he starred as FBI agent Stan Beeman on the FX series The Americans, for which he won the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2019.

Emmerich was born on February 27, 1965, in New York City, New York. His mother, Constance, is a concert pianist; and his father, André Emmerich (1924–2007), was a gallery owner and art dealer. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, André had emigrated from Nazi Germany with his family, who relocated first to Amsterdam, Netherlands, and then to New York in 1940.[1][2][3] His aunt had been a classmate of Anne Frank.[4] Noah’s family is Jewish, from Germany and France on his father’s side and from Hungary and Romania on his mother’s.[1][5][6] He has two older brothers: Toby Emmerich, a screenwriter and former chairman of the Warner Bros. Pictures Group; and Adam Emmerich, a partner at the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, specializing in mergers and acquisitions