![]() ![]() He spent a semester at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. He left Tisch during his senior year to pursue his acting career and is an alumnus of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. ![]() He also attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, where he departed after his sophomore year to attend New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In Illinois, he trained at Piven Theatre Workshop, founded by his parents. As a teenager, he attended Harand Theater Camp in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, where he played Bernardo in West Side Story. He grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and graduated from Evanston Township High School. His elder sister is director Shira Piven, whom he has described as one of his first acting teachers his brother-in-law is director Adam McKay. His parents are Byrne Piven (1929–2002) and Joyce Hiller Piven (née Goldstein), both of whom were actors and drama teachers. Piven was born in Manhattan and raised in a Reconstructionist Jewish family of Ukrainian Jewish descent. He also starred in the British period drama Mr Selfridge, which tells the story of the man who created the English department store Selfridges, and portrayed Spence Kovak on Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom Ellen. He is best known for his role as Ari Gold in the comedy series Entourage, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Emmy Awards. Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965) is an American actor and comedian. ![]()
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