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." 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. 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.

Career

Weber's roles were often bit parts in A-list films, beginning with that of Kyra Sedgwick's character's unnamed boyfriend in the Oliver Stone-directed period saga Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and continuing with work for such directors as Sidney Lumet (A Stranger Among Us, 1992), Alan J. Pakula (The Pelican Brief, 1993) and Martin Brest (Meet Joe Black, 1998). Weber scored one of his premier leads as Dr. Matt Crower, a kindly physician who takes charge of a young boy and protects him from a possessed sheriff in actor-turned-producer Shaun Cassidy's short-lived, but well received, supernatural drama series American Gothic (1995) on CBS.

That programme did not last long; and neither did the Mike Binder sitcom The Mind of the Married Man (2001), in which Weber signed on as one of the leads, Chicago newspaper employee Jake Berman. After his prominent role in the 2004 remake of horror film Dawn of the Dead, Weber won the role of Joe Dubois on Medium as the husband of a woman (Patricia Arquette) plagued by psychic visions who uses her ability to help solve crimes.

He has performed on Broadway and off-Broadway.

Personal life

Weber and Elizabeth Carey have a son, Waylon (born 2006).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Born on the Fourth of July	Donna's boyfriend
1991	Bed & Breakfast	Bobby
1992	A Stranger Among Us	Yaakov Klausman
1993	Skin Art	Richard
1993	The Pelican Brief	Curtis Morgan
1994	Cultivating Charlie	Charles Thundertrunk
1994	Vanishing Son II	Bo	Television movie
1994	Vanishing Son IV	Bo	Television movie
1997	What the Deaf Man Heard	Tolliver Tynan
1997	Amistad	Mr. Wright
1998	Meet Joe Black	Drew
1998	Dangerous Beauty	King Henry III
1998	Into My Heart	Adam
1999	Pushing Tin	Barry Plotkin
1999	In Too Deep	Daniel Connelly
1999	Cherry	Dr. Beverly Kirk
2000	The Cell	FBI Special Agent Gordon Ramsey
2000	U-571	Lt. Hirsch, USNR
2001	Wendigo	George
2002	Love Thy Neighbor	Man in Adult Section
2002	Leo	Ben Bloom
2002	100 Mile Rule	Bobby Davis
2004	The Warrior Class	Phil Anwar
2004	Haven	Officer Powell
2004	Dawn of the Dead	Michael
2008	The Haunting of Molly Hartley	Mr. Hartley
2012	Chained	Brad Fittler
2013	White House Down	Secret Service Agent Ted Hope
2014	Hungry Hearts	Dr. Bill
2014	Learning to Drive	Ted

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	"Law & Order"	Wesley Parker	Episode 8: "Poison Ivy"
1994-1995	Something Wilder	Richie Wainwright	15 episodes
1995-1996	American Gothic	Dr. Matt Crower	15 episodes
1997	Liberty! The American Revolution	Virginia Officer	5 episodes
2001	The $treet	Peter Dearborn	2 episodes
2001-2002	The Mind of the Married Man	Jake Berman	20 episodes
2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Carl Atwood	Episode: "One"
2005-2011	Medium	Joe Dubois	130 episodes Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor - Television Series Drama
2011	Human Target	Bill Fickner	Episode: "Marshal Pucci"
2012	Royal Pains	Gabe Gleason	Episode: "Bottoms Up"
2012	House	Joe Reese	Episode: "Man of the House"
2013	Elementary	Geoffrey Silver	Episode: "Dirty Laundry"
2014	The Following	Micah	3 episodes
2014	Hell On Wheels	John Allen Campbell	13 episodes
2015	Tyrant	Jimmy Timmons	8 episodes
2015	The Blacklist	Raymond Reddington / Gregory Devry	1 episode

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