Jay Duplass

Jay Duplass
Jay Duplass
	Duplass in 2024
Born	Lawrence Jay Duplass Jr.; March 7, 1973 (age 51); New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Education	Jesuit High School
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin (BA)
Occupations	Film director; film producer; writer; actor; author;
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Jen Tracy
Children	2
Relatives	Mark Duplass (brother), Katie Aselton (sister-in-law)

Lawrence Jay Duplass Jr. (born March 7, 1973)^[1] is an American filmmaker, actor, and author widely known for his films The Puffy Chair (2005), Cyrus (2010), and Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), made in collaboration with his younger brother, Mark Duplass.

Duplass starred in the Amazon Video comedy-drama series Transparent (2014–2019), and co-created the HBO comedy-drama series Togetherness (2015–16) and the HBO anthology series Room 104 (2017–2020).

Early life

Duplass was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Cynthia (née Ernst) and Lawrence Duplass.^[2]^[3]^[4] He was raised in a Catholic family,^[5]^[6] and attended Jesuit High School. Duplass graduated from the University of Texas at Austin; he started a Masters of Fine Arts degree in film at UT but withdrew in the first few months to pursue independent film projects.^[7] His ancestry includes French Cajun, Italian, Ashkenazi Jewish, and German.^[8]^[9]

Career

Directing

Duplass attributes much of his and his brother's love for film to his appreciation for Raising Arizona. In an interview with Robert K. Elder for The Film That Changed My Life,^[10] Duplass speculates on what might have happened had he not seen the film in his youth.

I probably wouldn't be making movies—seriously. It held over for so long. It really was the root of everything that Mark and I always hold ourselves to in making movies. That is to say that Raising Arizona is the most inspired movie that I have ever seen.^[10]

In 2015, Mark and Jay Duplass via their Duplass Brothers Television label signed an overall deal with HBO.^[11]

Acting

In 2014, he starred as Josh Pfefferman in the Amazon Prime Original Comedy-Drama Series Transparent, alongside Jeffrey Tambor, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker and Judith Light. The series was met with widespread critical acclaim, earning 11 Primetime Emmy nominations, including nominations for Best Comedy Series and Best Actor in a Comedy Series for Jeffrey Tambor. In the second season of the show, Duplass's role became more prominent, and he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

Prior to Transparent, Duplass had never acted in a featured part. He was talking with director Joey Soloway at a dinner party about the difficulty they were having finding an actor to play what would end up being Duplass's role. After suggesting many actors for the part to Soloway, Soloway turned to Duplass and told him that he should play the part.^[12]

Favorite films

In 2012, Duplass participated in the Sight & Sound film polls of that year. Held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, contemporary directors were asked to select ten films of their choice.^[13]

American Movie (USA, 1999)
The Big Lebowski (USA, 1998)
Close-Up (Iran, 1990)
The Horse Boy (USA, 2009)
Raising Arizona (USA, 1987)
Rocky (USA, 1976)
The Thin Blue Line (USA, 1989)
Tootsie (USA, 1982)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (USA, 1966)
A Woman Under the Influence (USA, 1974)

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Credited as
Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
2005	The Puffy Chair	Yes	Yes	Uncredited
2008	Baghead	Yes	Yes	Yes
2010	Cyrus	Yes	Yes	No
2011	Jeff, Who Lives at Home	Yes	Yes	No
2012	The Do-Deca-Pentathlon	Yes	Yes	Yes
2017	Table 19	No	Story	No
2017	Outside In	No	Yes	Executive
2018	Prospect	No	Yes	No
TBA	See You When I See You	Yes	No	Executive

Executive producer only

Lovers of Hate (2010)
Black Rock (2012)
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Bad Milo! (2013)
The Skeleton Twins (2014)
The One I Love (2014)
Adult Beginners (2014)
Tangerine (2015)
Manson Family Vacation (2015)
The Bronze (2015)
The Overnight (2015)
6 Years (2015)
Rainbow Time (2016)
Asperger's Are Us (2016)
Blue Jay (2016)
Take Me (2017)
Duck Butter (2018)
Unlovable (2018)
Paddleton (2019)
Horse Girl (2020)
Young Hearts (2021)
Drought (2021)
As of Yet (2021)
The MisEducation of Bindu (2021)
Language Lessons (2021)
Not Going Quietly (2021)
7 Days (2021)
Spin Me Round (2022)
Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022)
The Drop (2023)
Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed (2023)
Biosphere (2023)
Last Stop Larrimah (2023)
Jazzy (2024)
I’ll Show You Mine (TBA)
The Knife (TBA)

Television

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
Year	Title	Director	Executive Producer	Writer	Notes
2015–2016	Togetherness	Yes	Yes	Yes	Co-creator
2014	Wedlock	No	Yes	No
2016–2018	Animals.	No	Yes	No
2017–2020	Room 104	No	Yes	No	Co-creator
2018	Co-Ed	No	Yes	No
	Evil Genius	No	Yes	No	Documentary series
	Wild Wild Country	No	Yes	No
2019	On Tour with Asperger's Are Us	No	Yes	No
2019	Shook	No	Yes	No
2020	Search Party	Yes	No	No	Directed 2 episodes
2021	The Lady and the Dale	No	Yes	No	Documentary series
	Sasquatch	No	Yes	No	Documentary series
	Cinema Toast	Yes	Yes	Yes	Wrote & directed 1 episode
2024	American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders	No	Yes	No	Documentary series

Short film

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer	Notes
1996	Connect 5	No	Yes	No
2002	The New Brad	Yes	Yes	Yes
2003	This is John	Yes	No	No
2003	Death for Sale	No	Yes	No
2004	Scrapple	Yes	Yes	Yes
2005	The Intervention	Yes	No	No
2011	Kevin	Yes	Yes	Yes	Documentary short
	Maurice	No	No	Executive	Documentary short
	Authoritative Sources	Yes	No	No	Segment of Slacker 2011
2020	The Ride	No	No	Executive

Acting roles

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Nights and Weekends	James' brother
2011	Slacker 2011	Boyfriend
2015	Manson Family Vacation	Nick
2015	Paper Towns	English Teacher
2016	Rainbow Time	Adam
2017	Landline	Ben
	Beatriz at Dinner	Alex
	Outside In	Chris Connelly
2018	Prospect	Damon
	Duck Butter	Jay
	The Oath	Clark Stewart
2019	Pink Wall	Leon
2019	Phil	Malcolm
2020	Horse Girl	Ethan
2020	Shithouse	Professor Notkin	Uncredited
2022	Ghostwritten	Guy Laury
2023	The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial	Lieutenant Allen Bird MD
2023	Pain Hustlers	Larkin

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012–2017	The Mindy Project	Duncan Deslaurier	13 episodes
2014–2019	Transparent	Josh Pfefferman	38 episodes
2016	Animals.	Dennis (voice)	2 episodes
2017–2020	Search Party	Elijah	7 episodes
2017	Room 104	Daniel	Episode: "I Knew You Weren't Dead"
2019	Drunk History	John C. Lilly	Episode: "Drugs"
2019	Stumptown	Alan	Episode: "Missed Connections"
2021	The Chair	Bill Dobson	6 episodes
2021	Cinema Toast	(voice)	1 episode
2022	Industry	Jesse Bloom	7 episodes
2024	Percy Jackson and the Olympians	Hades	Episode: "We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of"
TBA	Dying for Sex	Steve	Upcoming miniseries

Bibliography

Like Brothers (2018) (with Mark Duplass)

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2022	Peabody Awards	Entertainment	Somebody Somewhere	Nominated	^[14]

References

^ "Jay Duplass - United States Public Records". FamilySearch. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
^ "Low budget and brotherly". Los Angeles Times. July 3, 2006. Archived from the original on January 11, 2013. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
^ King, Susan (July 6, 2006). "Puffy Chair carves out a living". Newsbank.com.
^ "Mr. John Anthony Ernst, Jr. obituary". Stei-23818.tributes.com. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
^ Hood, Shannon (March 19, 2010). "SXSW Interview: 'Cyrus' Directors Mark and Jay Duplass". The Flickcast. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
^ "Jay Duplass Talks Moving To The Mainstream At The 2011 Savannah Film Festival". Indiewire. March 2, 2012. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
^ Kelly, Christopher (July 2012). "Sibling Revelry". Texas Monthly.
^ Lamble, David (March 28, 2013). "The Bay Area Reporter Online". Ebar.com. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
^ "Jay Duplass Doesn't Want to be a Coen Brother Anymore". The New Yorker. 17 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b Elder, Robert K. (2011). "Interview with Jay Duplass". The Film That Changed My Life. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. p. 209. ISBN 9781556528255.
^ Wagmeister, Elizabeth (2015-06-16). "Duplass Brothers Ink Overall Deal with HBO". Variety. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
^ Lincoln, Kevin (6 January 2016). "After Years Directing Indie Films, Transparent Star Jay Duplass Found Himself in an Unlikely Place: In Front of the Camera". Vulture. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
^ "Jay Duplass". BFI. Archived from the original on February 23, 2016. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
^ Voyles, Blake (September 20, 2023). "83rd Peabody Award Nominees". Retrieved September 20, 2023.

External links

[FamilySearch-USPR-2008-1] "Jay Duplass - United States Public Records". FamilySearch. Retrieved March 11, 2015.

[2] "Low budget and brotherly". Los Angeles Times. July 3, 2006. Archived from the original on January 11, 2013. Retrieved April 2, 2013.

[3] King, Susan (July 6, 2006). "Puffy Chair carves out a living". Newsbank.com.

[4] "Mr. John Anthony Ernst, Jr. obituary". Stei-23818.tributes.com. Retrieved April 2, 2013.

[5] Hood, Shannon (March 19, 2010). "SXSW Interview: 'Cyrus' Directors Mark and Jay Duplass". The Flickcast. Retrieved April 2, 2013.

[6] "Jay Duplass Talks Moving To The Mainstream At The 2011 Savannah Film Festival". Indiewire. March 2, 2012. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2013.

[7] Kelly, Christopher (July 2012). "Sibling Revelry". Texas Monthly.

[8] Lamble, David (March 28, 2013). "The Bay Area Reporter Online". Ebar.com. Retrieved April 2, 2013.

[9] "Jay Duplass Doesn't Want to be a Coen Brother Anymore". The New Yorker. 17 July 2022.

[Elder-10] Elder, Robert K. (2011). "Interview with Jay Duplass". The Film That Changed My Life. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. p. 209. ISBN 9781556528255.

[11] Wagmeister, Elizabeth (2015-06-16). "Duplass Brothers Ink Overall Deal with HBO". Variety. Retrieved 2021-02-16.

[Vulture-ActingRole-2016-12] Lincoln, Kevin (6 January 2016). "After Years Directing Indie Films, Transparent Star Jay Duplass Found Himself in an Unlikely Place: In Front of the Camera". Vulture. Retrieved 6 January 2016.

[13] "Jay Duplass". BFI. Archived from the original on February 23, 2016. Retrieved July 4, 2022.

[14] Voyles, Blake (September 20, 2023). "83rd Peabody Award Nominees". Retrieved September 20, 2023.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]

Jay Duplass

Early life

Career

Directing

Acting

Favorite films

Filmography

Film

Television

Short film

Acting roles

Film

Television

Bibliography

Accolades

References

External links

Read other articles:

Narcobarbital

Fnjóskadalur

Stadion RheinEnergie

Resolusi 1154 Dewan Keamanan Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa

Asosiasi Pengangkutan Udara Internasional

RD-107

Russell Holmes

Glenneda Zuiderveld

Conférence sur la sécurité et la coopération en Europe

Doctor (Work It Out)

Larnaca

Человек прямоходящий

IFPI Greece

Ti West

Dusky grouse

2020年夏季奧林匹克運動會波蘭代表團

哈萨克斯坦总统

King's Police Medal

Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol de 1961

Perpustakaan Nasional Austria