Michael Stuhlbarg — American Actor born on July 05, 1968,
Michael S. Stuhlbarg is an American actor. He is best known for playing organized crime boss Arnold Rothstein in the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire, troubled university professor Larry Gopnik in the 2009 dark comedy film A Serious Man, Griffin in Men in Black 3, Dr. Flicker in Blue Jasmine, and computer scientist and inventor Andy Hertzfeld in the biopic Steve Jobs... (wikipedia)
I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.
I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.
