10/18/2026
The Green Room

Your full attention: Jesse Eisenberg’s 10 best film performances – ranked!

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Your full attention: Jesse Eisenberg’s 10 best film performances – ranked!
As his new movie The Debut closes the London film festival, we count down the best of the actor’s shy, sly and sometimes hairy outingsA doppelganger role can be a trap for an actor: either the two roles are not sufficiently distinct, or they are too hammily different, and either way the result can look like a film school graduation project. But Jesse Eisenberg gives a stylish split-personality turn in Richard Ayoade’s adaptation of the Dostoevsky novella. He plays Simon, a nerdily shy and self-e
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