With roles ranging from comedic turns as the deranged Eddie from Friends, a hapless townie on My Name Is Earl, and a hilarious arc as overeager Medellin producer on Entourage to dramatic turns on everything from ER to Medium as well as countless others, Adam Goldberg is no stranger to television.
Since 1992, after landing a career-launching role in Dazed and Confused, Richard Linklater’s classic ode to ’70s high school, Goldberg has managed to bounce with ease between roles in blockbuster movies, Oscar® winners and sleeper independent films alike. Notably: a wrenching turn as a doomed soldier in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar®-winning Saving Private Ryan with Tom Hanks; a scientist classmate and friend of Russell Crowe’s character in Ron Howard’s Oscar®-winning A Beautiful Mind; a slacker in Linklater’s Waking Life; a zombie henchman of Christopher Walken’s angel Gabriel in Gregory Widen’s The Prophecy; the voice of a Jack Russell in George Miller’s Babe: Pig in the City; a physicist in the Tony Scott thriller Déjà Vu opposite Denzel Washington and Jim Caviezel; the hero of Jonathan Kesselman’s “Jewsploitation” comedy The Hebrew Hammer, a speed freak in D.J. Caruso’s drug noir The Salton Sea with Val Kilmer; and a recent starring role as Jack in the sleeper hit Two Days in Paris opposite Julie Delpy. He also recently wrapped Miss Nobody opposite Leslie Bibb, Untitled opposite Marley Shelton, Norman with Dan Byrd and Richard Jenkins and From Within with Thomas Dekker.
Goldberg is also a filmmaker in his own right, having written, directed, co-edited, produced and starred in his first film, Scotch and Milk, which made its debut in 1998 at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and was featured on the Sundance Channel series 10 Best Films You May Never Have Seen.
Goldberg co-wrote and directed his second feature, I Love Your Work, which was produced through his production company and released by Think Film in 2005. The film, starring Giovanni Ribisi, Franka Potente, Christina Ricci and Joshua Jackson, with cameos by Vince Vaughn and Elvis Costello, is about the gradual meltdown of a fictional movie star. Goldberg also composed the film’s original music with The Flaming Lips’ drummer Steven Drozd. In addition, Goldberg directed, co-edited and produced the comic documentary short Running with the Bulls for the Independent Film Channel.
In March of 2009 Goldberg will release an album of original songs under the moniker Landy. The record was recorded over six years in several states and, in addition to Goldberg, features such musicians as Steven Drozd and Aaron Espinoza, from the band Earlimart, with whom he mixed the record.
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