Actor
Jake Lacy
Born February 14, 198621 films
Jake Lacy (born February 14, 1986) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Pete Miller on the final season of The Office and as a co-lead as Casey Marion Davenport on the ABC sitcom Better with You (2010–11). He starred with Jenny Slate in the 2014 film Obvious Child, opposite Rooney Mara in Carol (2015), and as Olivia Wilde's character's love interest in Love the Coopers (2016).
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Lacy grew up in Vermont, where he attended Otter Valley Union High School. In 2008, Lacy graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) in Winston-Salem. After graduation, he worked odd jobs in the state of New York. He worked as a gym receptionist, a bar-back at a club and a waiter, while going to auditions during the day, until being cast in the role of Casey in Better with You.
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First watchCarol20157.5as Richard SemcoIn 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.View filmEssential films
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21 films as actor- TBAThe Very Best People
- 2026StrangleholdTim
- 2026MagazineMickey
- 2026Late FameLiterary Agent
- 2026A Mosquito in the EarAndrew
- 2023The Caine Mutiny Court-MartialLieutenant Stephen Maryk
- 2022Significant OtherHarry
- 2021Being the RicardosBob Carroll Jr.
- 2019Ode to JoyCooper
- 2019OtherhoodPaul Halston
- 2019DianeBrian
- 2018Johnny English Strikes AgainJason Volta
- 2018RampageBrett Wyden
- 2017Christmas InheritanceJake Collins
- 2017Their FinestCarl Lundbeck / Brannigan
- 2016Miss SloaneForde
- 2016How to Be SingleKen
- 2015CarolRichard Semco
- 2015Love the CoopersJoe Bailey
- 2014Obvious ChildMax
- 2014Balls OutCaleb