"Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live."
Emile Davenport Hirsch (born March 13, 1985 in Los Angeles) is an American actor.
He's had roles in TV series since 1996, and made his Hollywood debut in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys in 2002.
His most critically acclaimed role is that of Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild, the true story of a young man who left his family and privileged background behind to adopt a vagabond lifestyle, sought to live in the wild and ended up dying of it.
Works on TV Tropes he has starred in:
- Kindred: The Embraced (1996) as Abel
- 3rd Rock from the Sun (1997) as Punk
- Early Edition (1997) as Lance Foster
- Players (1998) as Adam Paprelli
- Two of a Kind (1999) as Jeremy
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1999) as Darryl
- The Pretender (1999) as Bryce Banks
- Profiler (1999)
- NYPD Blue (1999) as Marcello Parisi
- ER (1999) as Chad Kottmeier
- The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) as Francis Doyle
- The Emperor's Club (2002) as Sedgewick Bell
- The Girl Next Door (2004) as Matthew Kidman
- Imaginary Heroes (2004) as Tim Travis
- Lords of Dogtown (2005) as Jay Adams
- Alpha Dog (2006) as Johnny Truelove
- The Air I Breathe (2007) as Tony
- Into the Wild (2007) as Christopher McCandless
- Speed Racer (2008) as Speed Racer
- Milk (2008) as Cleve Jones
- Taking Woodstock (2009) as Billy
- Killer Joe (2011) as Chris Smith
- The Darkest Hour (2011) as Sean
- Savages (2012) as Spin
- Lone Survivor (2013) as Danny Dietz
- The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) as Austin Tilden
- Tales of Arcadia as Jim Lake Jr. (voice; replacing the late Anton Yelchin)
- Trollhunters (2018)
- 3Below (2018-19)
- Wizards (2020)
- An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn (2018) as Shane Danger
- Freaks (2018) as Henry Lewis
- Never Grow Old (2019) as Patrick Tate
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) as Jay Sebring
- Force of Nature (2020) as Cardillo
- Robot Chicken (2020) as Nick Jonas, Ron Weasley (voice)
