Noah Emmerich

Noah Nicholas Emmerich (born February 27, 1965) is an American film actor who first broke out in the film Beautiful Girls. He was later seen in the movies The Truman Show, Cop Land, Frequency, Love & Sex, Windtalkers, Miracle, Super 8 and Little Children. He stars as FBI Agent Stan Beeman on the FX series The Americans. 2Early life and education Emmerich was born on February 27, 1965 in New York City, New York to a Jewish family. His mother, Constance, is a concert pianist; and his father, André Emmerich (1924–2007), was a gallery owner and art dealer who was born in Frankfurt, Germany and fled Nazi Germany with his family, relocating first to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and then New York in 1940. Noah has two brothers: Toby Emmerich, President and Chief Operating Officer at New Line Cinema, as well as a screenwriter; and Adam Emmerich, a partner at the firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. Noah Emmerich attended the Dalton School and learned to play the trumpet as a youth. He studied the Meisner technique of acting privately under Ron Stetston, an actor/director who is currently senior member of the acting staff at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he majored in History. He sang in the "Yale Spizzwinks(?)" an a cappella singing group; another member performing with him in the group was actor Josh Malin