HIMMELSTEIN, JACOB EZRA

[jakestone]

jacob ezra himmelstein.

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/ i want to voice this out loud

full name. Jacob Ezra Himmelstein
stage name. Jake Stone
nicknames. None as yet
age dob. Twenty-eight, September 30th 1982

gender. Male
sexual orientation. Heterosexual
career. TV/Film Actor
hometown. Toronto, ON


/ it's therapeutic somehow

height. 5'11"
eyes. Brown
hair. Black
build. Skinny
distinguishing features. Scar behind his ear
play-by. Dan Ahdoot

/ so i'm moving to new york

loves. Beer, Indian food, hockey, Bill Hicks, talking, old skool hip-hop, weed, documentaries on TV.
hates. Reading anything longer than an article in Sports Illustrated, religious fundamentalists, Fox News, the Montreal Canadiens, the sight of his own naked body, dancing, hecklers, pretentious people.
quirks. Jake is left-handed, and is usually seen wearing Maple Leafs gear whenever he's not on set.
aspirations. To get his own sitcom, to find a girl his Mom would approve of, and to meet his hero Weird Al Yankovic. Oh, and to become more successful than his brother, who's a doctor back in Canada.
secrets. Jake is dyslexic, and struggles to read scripts. He didn't lose his virginity until he was twenty-two.
personality evaluated. Jacob's naturally a quite highly-strung guy. Performing comedy has made him more comfortable being himself, but he's still not got the highest self-esteem in the world, and while he's usually good at seeing the funny side of things, on occasion his temper can get the better of him, usually resulting in a unintentionally hilarious rant and the destruction of several inanimate objects.

He's naturally talkative, and quite down to Earth. He loves talking about sports (except for soccer or auto racing), movies, food, the usual guy stuff. He's into girls, but although he's getting better, he still often feels kind of unworthy of the kind of ladies you see in Los Angeles. In his everyday life, he's pretty shy, but he does have boundless confidence when he's on stage, doing what he loves.

He considers himself a compassionate person, but make no mistake: his career is his priority, and that takes precedence over almost everything. It's a dog eat dog world out there, and he learned this the hard way.

/ i've got issues with my sleep

father. Alan Himmelstein, 61, Bank Manager.
mother. Miriam Miller Himmelstein, 56, retired Nurse.
siblings. David Ross Himmelstein, 31, Medical Doctor.
Elisha Jane Himmelstein, 23, Grad Student.
pets. None.
other family. Has several aunts, uncles, and cousins, mostly living in Greater Toronto.
history evaluated.

Jacob Himmelstein is the second son of a fairly normal, middle-class Jewish family from greater Toronto. His parents were pretty liberal, and his homelife was largely pleasant- he felt loved, the family didn't push him into anything he didn't want to do, and while he often felt like he was in the shadow of his brother, who was both more academic and good at sports, the two had a pretty good relationship with David always looking out for his kid brother.

School, though, was a different matter. Jake was a skinny and unathletic child, so was never going to be one of the popular kids, and his dyslexia (which wasn't diagnosed until he was 14) made the schoolwork itself a real struggle, too. So he didn't really fit in with the smart kids either, and while he had an OK singing voice, he couldn't play any musical instruments nor was he very artistic, so he never really fitted with the creative clique either.

What Jake did have was a smart mouth, and a good memory. The one class he really enjoyed in school was drama, and he soon found that pretty much the only way he could come up with to make the Jocks stop picking on him was to make them laugh. So he found his niche as the 'funny kid' in his High School. He watched tapes of Leno, Jon Stewart, Bill Hicks, and Woody Allen, and by the middle of his Sophomore year, he'd got his first full standup act prepared.

As Jacob got better at comedy, his confidence improved. By the time he was a Senior, he even managed to get a couple of dates, although he never had a steady girlfriend. Even before he'd finished High School, Jake was going to open mic nights, and honing his routine, trying out new jokes.

Jake managed to graduate, but his grades weren't good enough to get into a four-year college, so he enrolled in his local Community College. Jake only lasted a term, though, before dropping out to pursue comedy full time.

He did gigs across Ontario, and on occasion ventured as far afield as Winnipeg, Montreal, and Boston, spending three years performing in small, badly-lit clubs, sleeping on couches belonging to friends, relatives or other comedians. Gradually though, he began to build himself a rep as one of the funniest guys in Canada, and got his big break when a producer from the CBC caught his show at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal.

This led to Jake becoming a cast member on a late night ensemble comedy show, and the increased exposure allowed him to undertake more ambitious tours, sometimes under his own steam, sometimes opening for big-name comedians.

By his mid-twenties, though, it became obvious that there was only so far his career could develop as long as he stayed in Toronto. To really make a breakthrough, he'd have to move to LA and try to get on American TV.

So, at the age of 27, he finally left his parents' home, and moved down to California, sharing a studio apartment with a fellow Canadian who was trying to make it as an actor. Jake spent the days looking for acting jobs and doing extra work to try to get his face known, and the nights doing comedy gigs to pay the rent. Progress on the acting front was slow, and he was exhausted from spending pretty much every waking hour working, but at least he was doing enough shows, in LA and beyond, to avoid having to wait tables or anything like that. Plus, for the first time in his life, it seemed like there was a decent-sized pool of women willing to sleep with him, so there's that.

/ christmas came early for me

alias Cv
years of rp experience 5
other characters none
how did you find us Ad on another board.
roleplay sample. "Goodbye, Mom."

Jacob loved his mother as much as the next guy, probably more, but still, he didn't have time to talk to her right now. He was waiting for a call from his agent about the audition he'd been to this morning.

Jake was surprised at how nervous he was. He'd been to plenty of auditions, and he was used to the rejection, but in spite of himself he had a really good feeling about this one. He didn't know why- he'd been funny, no doubt, but no funnier than he always was- but he just, somehow, felt he was due. Gambler's fallacy? Sure, but you had to hold onto something. Otherwise this industry would destroy you.

In order to distract himself, Jacob took a walk down to the laundry room to pick up his clothes. As he made his way down the stairs, the words of a bit from an old routine came to mind. "

[/i]Stairs are the great test of how old you feel. When you're nineteen, they're like marshmallows. You take two or three at once without thinking about it...[/i]"

His thought process was interrupted by the sight of his neighbor, Mrs Newman, coming the other way. "Evening," he said, politely, resisting the temptation to go with "Hello, Newman," which came upon him every time he encountered her.

As Jake reached the laundry room and proceeed to empty his clothes into his basket, his mind wandered back to this audition. It was just for a small role in a sitcom - two episodes, a love interest for one of the protagonists - but it was clearly a foot in the door. He knew he was right for the part. Knew it. Then again, he'd known the same thing plenty of times before.

Sighing, Jacob picked up the basket and started making his way up the stairs. And, with predictably perfect timing, his cell started ringing halfway up. Jake stopped, and placed his basket down on a step, propping it up with his foot to try to stop it toppling while he fished in his pocket for the phone, which was busy vibrating and playing 'The Devil in Disguise,' the ringtone he'd assigned to his agent.

Just before it was about to ring off, Jake laid a hand on the cell and flipped it open. "Hello, Jake Stone..."

From the other end of the line came news that made Jacob almost explode with happiness. "That's fantastic!" he almost screamed down the line. Jake started bouncing from foot to foot in excitement. Suddenly, those stairs looked like marshmallows again.

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