Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Early life and education

Ebon Moss-Bachrach was born on March 19, 1977 in New York City, His parents ran a music school in Springfield, Massachusetts. His middle name of "Che" was given to him by his parents after the famous Argentinian leader and revolutionary Che Guevara. His father was born in Germany to Jewish-American parents.

Moss-Bachrach attended high school at Amherst Regional High School in Massachusetts, and graduated from Columbia University in 1999 with a B.A. in English Literature. He initially was an American history major and a music studies major. During his third year of college, he studied abroad in Alicante, Spain for a semester.

As a child, Moss-Bachrach had a passion for theatre and movies, and also loved to read. Some of his favorite authors were Isaac Asimov and Piers Anthony. He spent much of his childhood indoors, and described his younger self as an "escapist." In high school, Moss-Bachrach joined the school band, and became fond of performing. One of his favorite musical artists was Ornette Coleman.

During his first year of college, Moss-Bachrach took an acting class out of curiosity, and quickly became inspired to pursue theater. After the class, he became an apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival to gain some experience in theater. Moss-Bachrach went on to study acting and the Meisner technique at the William Esper Studio in New York City.

Career

Moss-Bachrach played John Quincy Adams in HBO's John Adams miniseries and investigative reporter John Carreyrou in Hulu's The Dropout miniseries about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. He had his television breakout playing Desi in the HBO series Girls, which began as a recurring role before he became a series regular in the series' final three seasons. He has subsequently appeared in The Punisher and Andor. For his role as Richie Jerimovich in the FX on Hulu series The Bear, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards. He played a sad-sack ex-boyfriend of Jennifer Lawrence's character in the 2023 comedy No Hard Feelings.

In July 2025, Moss-Bachrach portrayed Ben Grimm / The Thing in The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) and is set to reprise the role in Avengers: Doomsday (2026) and Avengers: Secret Wars (2027). He is a signatory of the Film Workers for Palestine boycott pledge that was published in September 2025.

He is set to make his Broadway debut in the spring of 2026 opposite Jon Bernthal in Stephen Adly Guirgis's stage adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon.

Personal life

Moss‑Bachrach has been married to Ukrainian photographer and artist Yelena Yemchuk since the 2000s; the couple met at a dinner party in New York City and began dating about a year and a half later. They have two daughters, Sasha (b. 2007) and Maribelle (b. 2010), and live together in Brooklyn Heights, New York, with their cat Sonny.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards and nominations

References

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