Jake Picking

Jake Picking was born in Germany, where his father, a member of the United States Army from West Point, was stationed at the time of his birth (according to other sources in the US state of Massachusetts). However, he grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.[5] At New York University, Picking was a winger on the New York ice hockey team.[6] He dropped out of business school after a year because he was more interested in acting and student film projects.[7] As an ice hockey player, Picking appeared in an NHL commercial before his acting career.[6]

Picking first came into contact with acting in high school when his mathematics teacher encouraged him to do so. Later he took acting lessons with the casting agent Carolyn Pickman who counted Ben Affleck and Matt Damon among her protégés. She encouraged Picking to take up the acting profession.

Picking finally began attending auditions in Boston,[5] in 2013 he made his feature film debut with a role in the youth film The Way, Way Back with Steve Carell. This was followed by guest appearances in the series Ironside (2013) and Chasing Life (2014). To start a professional acting career, he moved to Los Angeles, where he initially studied old Hollywood films with stars such as James Dean, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando or Montgomery Clift in his one-room apartment out of loneliness. He preferred moving to the West Coast to a possible acting course at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, although he had no contacts whatsoever in Los Angeles.[7]

In the next years Picking was regularly in movie productions but mostly subscribed to support roles. In 2016, he was part of the ensemble of the drama Goat, which deals with physical and psychological violence in the American college fraternity landscape. In the role of the sadistic oath master Dixon, Picking tormented Brett, played by Nick Jonas. In the same year he appeared in the thriller Patriots Day, which dramatizes the attack on the Boston Marathon. Here he played the part of policeman Sean Collier, who is shot by the assassins Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev (played by Alex Wolff and Themo Melikidze).

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