Jesse Peretz

Career

Peretz is a founding member of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based rock band The Lemonheads, which he formed in high school with classmates Evan Dando and Ben Deily. He left the band as a musician prior to the band's breakthrough album, It's a Shame About Ray; however, he continued to work with them as a photographer and music video director. His first videos for The Lemonheads were for the songs "Mrs. Robinson", "Confetti" and "It's a Shame about Ray". He went on to direct videos for the Foo Fighters (he won a Grammy for Best Music Video for "Learn to Fly"), Jack Black, Nada Surf and The Breeders, as well as creating and co-directing the "Jimmy the Cab-Driver" comedy vignettes for MTV with his friends from Harvard Donal Logue and Clay Tarver. Peretz also directed several commercials including spots for Nike, IKEA, Barq's Root Beer, and the Sony PlayStation. In 1998, he directed a feature film called First Love, Last Rites based on the Ian McEwan short story of the same name. In 2001 he directed The Chateau (starring Paul Rudd), in 2006 The Ex, and in 2011 Our Idiot Brother. He has worked as a producer/director on the HBO show Girls and Showtime's Nurse Jackie. It was announced in 2014 that Peretz would direct an adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel Juliet, Naked, produced by Judd Apatow. Peretz's film version premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

Personal life

Peretz was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Anne Devereux (née Labouisse), and publisher Marty Peretz. His father is a descendant of Yiddish-language Jewish author I. L. Peretz. His maternal grandparents were Elizabeth Scriven (Clark) and diplomat Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr. His maternal great-grandfather was art collector and philanthropist Stephen Carlton Clark, who was the son of Alfred Corning Clark and the grandson of inventor Edward C. Clark. His father is Jewish, and his mother is Protestant.

Filmography

Film (as director)

• First Love, Last Rites (1997)
• The Château (2001)
• The Ex (2006)
• Our Idiot Brother (2011)
• Juliet, Naked (2018)

TV (as director)

• Girls (18 episodes)
• Nurse Jackie (10 episodes)
• Married (2 episodes)
• The Electric Company (1 episode)
• New Girl (5 episodes)
• The Mindy Project (1 episode)
• The Office U.S. (1 episode)
• Bent (1 episode)
• Important Things with Demetri Martin (5 episodes)
• Orange Is the New Black (2 episodes)
• Happyish (1 episode)
• Divorce (5 episodes)
• GLOW (3 episodes)
• Shrill (1 episode)
• Soundtrack (1 episode)
• High Fidelity (1 episode)
• Teenage Bounty Hunters (1 episode)
• The Shrink Next Door (3 episodes)

Videography

• "Submerge" by Come (1992)
• "It's a Shame About Ray" by The Lemonheads (1992)
• "Confetti" by The Lemonheads (1992)
• "Mrs. Robinson" by The Lemonheads (1992)
• "Shocker in Gloomtown" by The Breeders (1994)
• "So Into You" by Shudder To Think (1994)
• "Cannon" by Self (1995)
• "So Low" by Self (1996)
• "Girl from Mars" by Ash (1996)
• "Popular (Nada Surf song)" by Nada Surf (1996)
• "Big Me" by Foo Fighters (1996)
• "Learn to Fly" by Foo Fighters (1999)
• "I Can Buy You" by A Camp (2001)
• "The One" by Foo Fighters (2002)
• "Idiot Boyfriend" by Jimmy Fallon (2002)
• "The Seed 2.0" by The Roots featuring Cody ChesnuTT (2003)
• "Followed the Waves" by Melissa Auf der Maur (2004)
• "School of Rock" by Jack Black (2004)
• "Low" by Foo Fighters (2003)
• "Long Road to Ruin" by Foo Fighters (2007)
• "Bad Liar" by Selena Gomez (2017)

References

References

1. Collins-Hughes, Laura. (August 30, 2011). "Peretz's local learning curve". Boston.com.
2. "Artist: Jesse Peretz". [[The Recording Academy]].
3. (November 18, 2014). "Jimmy the Cab Driver's Greatest MTV Hits". Rolling Stone.
4. (1 November 1999). "When Jesse Peretz Laughs, The World Laughs With Him...And Sometimes At Him.".
5. (March 4, 2013). "Q&A: Girls Director Jesse Peretz on Lena Dunham, His Music Video and Features Career, and the Satisfaction of Working on Cable TV". Grantland.
6. (July 23, 2011). "It Runs in the Family". [[Jerusalem Post]].
7. (June 23, 2015). "'Nurse Jackie': On the Set With Edie Falco as Show Says Goodbye for Good".
8. (5 December 2014). "Kate Winslet to Lead Judd Apatow-Produced 'Juliet, Naked,' from 'About a Boy' Author".
9. "Juliet, Naked". [[Sundance Film Festival]]. [[The Sundance Institute]].
10. "Jesse Peretz Biography". [[Yahoo! Movies]].
11. Rodrick, Stephen. (January 24, 2011). "Martin Peretz Is Not Sorry About Anything". The New York Times.
12. (May 5, 1985). "New Republic Edits for Elite". [[Record-Journal]].
13. (August 25, 2011). "Q&A: Siblings Evgenia and Jesse Peretz on 'Our Idiot Brother'". The Forward.