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Jake Picking (born ) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying
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in the
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series ''
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'' (2020), created by Ryan Murphy. He is also known for playing the role of
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in '' Patriots Day'' (2016), and appearing in '' Top Gun: Maverick'' (2022). In 2022, he starred as young
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series '' The First Lady''.


Biography

Jake Picking was born in
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, Germany, where his father, a United States Army soldier and
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graduate, was stationed. He grew up in Wellesley,
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. At
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, Picking was a winger on the New York ice hockey team. He dropped out of business school after a year because he was more interested in acting and student film projects. As an ice hockey player, Picking appeared in an
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commercial before his acting career. Picking's high school math teacher encouraged him to try out acting, and he took lessons with Carolyn Pickman, a casting agent who also represented
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and
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. Picking finally began attending auditions in Boston, in 2013 he made his feature film debut with a role in the youth film ''
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'' with
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. This was followed by guest appearances in the series '' Ironside'' (2013) and ''
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'' (2014). To start a professional acting career, he moved to Los Angeles, where he initially studied old Hollywood films with stars such as James Dean, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando or Montgomery Clift in his one-room apartment out of loneliness. He preferred moving to the West Coast to a possible acting course at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, although he had no contacts whatsoever in Los Angeles. In the next years Picking was regularly in movie productions but mostly subscribed to support roles. In 2016, he was part of the ensemble of the drama ''
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'', which deals with physical and psychological violence in the American college fraternity landscape. In the role of the sadistic oath master Dixon, Picking tormented Brett, played by
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. In the same year he appeared in the thriller '' Patriots Day'', which dramatizes the attack on the Boston Marathon. Here he played the part of policeman
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, who is shot by the bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev (played by
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and Themo Melikidze). In 2022, Picking appeared in the ''
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'' sequel '' Top Gun: Maverick'' as Lt. Brigham "Harvard" Lennox.


Filmography


Film


Television


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Picking, Jake 1990s births Living people American male film actors American male television actors American people of German descent People from Erlangen Year of birth missing (living people)