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Jake Weber (born 19 March 1964) is an English actor, known in film for his role as Michael in ''Dawn of the Dead'' and for his role as Drew in ''Meet Joe Black''. In television, he is known for playing Joe DuBois, the husband of psychic Allison DuBois, in the drama series ''Medium''. In 2001 and 2002, Weber was a series regular in HBO's ''The Mind of the Married Man'' and made guest appearances on ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' and ''NYPD Blue''. ==Early years== Weber was born in London, the son of Susan Ann Caroline (née Coriat), a British socialite, and Thomas Evelyn "Tommy" Weber (originally Thomas Ejnar Arkner), a race car driver who also came from a wealthy family. His father was born in Denmark of Danish and English descent. His mother is of half Sephardic Jewish (from Morocco) and half British Isles ancestry. Through his English maternal grandmother, Weber is the great-grandson of politician Archibald Weigall and the great-great-grandson of business magnate Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet.〔 Weber's mother, Susan, was diagnosed with depression and LSD-induced schizophrenia and died of a drug overdose when Jake was 8 years old and living at the Rolling Stones' Villa Nellcôte. His father, who sold various drugs and utilized both his sons in trafficking the drugs to various international destinations, struggled with drug addiction until his death in 2006. In an article in ''The Times'' of 20 May 2010, Weber recalled that when he was 8 years old, his "father used him as a drug mule to bring cocaine out for Mick and Bianca Jagger's wedding."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Rolling Stones' long party: documentary film tells of children )〕 He has one sibling, a brother, Charley. Weber attended Summerhill School, Leiston, Suffolk. Later he went to the United States to study at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he sang a cappella with the Dissipated Eight and majored in English literature and political science, graduating cum laude with a B.A. degree in 1986.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Arts Fact Sheet )〕 He attended The Juilliard School's Drama Division as a member of ''Group 19'' (1986–1990), which also included Laura Linney and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Weber also studied at Russia's famed Moscow Art Theatre. At the 2010 Cannes film festival, as part of the Directors' Fortnight at the launching of the rock 'n roll documentary, ''Stones in Exile'', singer Mick Jagger spoke to the crowd about the months of drug-fueled recording sessions that produced the Stones' classic 1972 album ''Exile on Main Street''. Jagger joked about the rarely seen original footage that reveals eight-year-old Weber rolling marijuana joints for them. Weber has reportedly stated that his drug-dealing father brought him to Keith Richards’s rented French villa, Nellcôte, in the seaside town of Villefranche-sur-Mer near Nice, where the Stones were recording the album.〔('Stupid' Mick Jagger mouths off at Cannes ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jake Weber」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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