Erik Jensen - Movies, Bio & Filmography

Meet Erik Jensen

★ Acting🎥 30 films📺 37 TV shows📅 1990–2025🔥 2

Also known as: Erik Jenson

Born in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, USA

1970-07-20 (age 55)

Erik Jensen (born July 20, 1970) is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director.

Jensen was born and raised in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. He graduated from Apple Valley High School in Minnesota in 1988.  He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting from Carnegie Mellon University.

An actor, writer, and director, Erik Jensen regularly appears on the ABC Network Television series For Life as ADA Dez O'Reilly. Notably, he appeared as Thurman Munson of the New York Yankees in the ESPN miniseries The Bronx Is Burning, and as conspiracy talk show host Frank Cody in Mr. Robot, as well as Dr. Stephen Edwards on The Walking Dead. Jensen appeared alongside Aasif Mandvi in Ayad Akhtars' Disgraced at Lincoln Center. He also appeared as rock critic Lester Bangs in the one-man play How to Be a Rock Critic (based on the writings of Lester Bangs) which he co-wrote with his wife Jessica Blank. How to Be A Rock Critic received a completion commission from Center Theatre Group and was produced at the Kirk Douglas Theater, ArtsEmerson, and Steppenwolf Theatre Company before being produced Off-Broadway at The Public Theater.

In 2017 he co-directed the film Almost Home with Jessica Blank based on her novel of the same name.

Now In 2020, Jensen and Blank's co-written plays, Coal Country and The Line, both premiered at The Public Theater.

In 2022/2023, Jensen appeared on Broadway as Bruno Bischofberger opposite Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope in Anthony McCarten's 'The Collaboration'.

Jensen and Blank have cited the works of Anna Deavere Smith, Emily Mann, and Studs Terkel as influencesFrom Wikipedia
Erik Jensen may refer to:

Erik Jensen (actor), American film, television and theater actor, playwright
Erik Jensen (American football) (born 1980), former American football player
Erik Jensen (boxer) (1921-1987), Danish Olympic boxer
Erik Jensen (footballer), Danish footballer
Erik Jensen (hurdler) (born 1962), Danish Olympic hurdler
Erik Jensen (Greenlandic politician)
Erik Jensen (writer), author and journalist, co-writer of 2019 film Acute Misfortune
Erik Aalbæk Jensen (1923–1997), Danish writer
Erik Kuld Jensen (1925–2004), Danish football player
Erik Pondal Jensen, Danish footballer
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