Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Ebon Che Moss-Bachrach is an American actor. He is known for his role as restaurant manager Richie Jerimovich in the comedy-drama series The Bear, for which he was twice awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in addition to two Golden Globe Award nominations.
Moss-Bachrach has had major television roles on Girls and NOS4A2, and appeared in the first season of Andor. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he portrayed David "Micro" Lieberman in the first season of The Punisher, and starred as Ben Grimm / The Thing in the film The Fantastic Four: First Steps and is set to reprise the role in Avengers: Doomsday.

Early life and education

Ebon Moss-Bachrach was born on March 19, 1977 in New York City, His parents ran a music school in Springfield, Massachusetts. His middle name of "Che" was given to him by his parents after the famous Argentinian leader and revolutionary Che Guevara. His father was born in Germany to Jewish-American parents.
Moss-Bachrach attended high school at Amherst Regional High School in Massachusetts, and graduated from Columbia University in 1999 with a B.A. in English Literature. He initially was an American history major and a music studies major. During his third year of college, he studied abroad in Alicante, Spain for a semester.
As a child, Moss-Bachrach had a passion for theatre and movies, and also loved to read. Some of his favorite authors were Isaac Asimov and Piers Anthony. He spent much of his childhood indoors, and described his younger self as an "escapist." In high school, Moss-Bachrach joined the school band, and became fond of performing. One of his favorite musical artists was Ornette Coleman.
During his first year of college, Moss-Bachrach took an acting class out of curiosity, and quickly became inspired to pursue theater. After the class, he became an apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival to gain some experience in theater. Moss-Bachrach went on to study acting and the Meisner technique at the William Esper Studio in New York City.

Moss-Bachrach played John Quincy Adams in HBO's John Adams miniseries and investigative reporter John Carreyrou in Hulu's The Dropout miniseries about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. He had his television breakout playing Desi in the HBO series Girls, which began as a recurring role before he became a series regular in the series' final three seasons. He has subsequently appeared in The Punisher and Andor. For his role as Richie Jerimovich in the FX on Hulu series The Bear, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards. He played a sad-sack ex-boyfriend of Jennifer Lawrence's character in the 2023 comedy No Hard Feelings.
In July 2025, Moss-Bachrach portrayed Ben Grimm / The Thing in The Fantastic Four: First Steps and is set to reprise the role in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. He is a signatory of the Film Workers for Palestine boycott pledge that was published in September 2025.
He is set to make his Broadway debut in the spring of 2026 opposite Jon Bernthal in Stephen Adly Guirgis's stage adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon.

Moss‑Bachrach has been married to Ukrainian photographer and artist Yelena Yemchuk since the 2000s; the couple met at a dinner party in New York City and began dating about a year and a half later. They have two daughters, Sasha and Maribelle, and live together in Brooklyn Heights, New York, with their cat Sonny.

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	'	First Waiter
2001	Never Again	Andy
2001	'	Frederick the Bellboy
2003	American Splendor	MTV Director
2003	Death of a Dynasty	Dave Katz
2003	Mona Lisa Smile	Charlie Stewart
2004	Winter Solstice	Steve
2004	Poster Boy	Charlie
2004	Point & Shoot	Chad Rhodes
2005	'	Olaf
2005	Stealth	Tim
2005	Road	Jay
2006	Out There	Stan
2006	Live Free or Die	Alex Gazaniga
2006	'	Henry Wyler
2006	Wedding Daze	Matador
2007	Chicago 10	Paul Krassner	Voice
2007	High Falls	Jackson	Short film
2007	Suburban Girl	Ethan Eisenberg
2007	Evening	Luc
2009	Breaking Upwards	Dylan
2009	'	Gavin
2011	Higher Ground	Luke
2012	Lola Versus	Nick
2012	Come Out and Play	Francis
2013	'	Ethan
2013	Gods Behaving Badly	Neil
2014	We'll Never Have Paris	Guillaume
2014	The Grey Matter	Simon Peterson	Short film
2017	Tokyo Project	Sebastian	Short film
2018	The Big Take	Max O'Leary
2019	Good Posture	Don Price
2019	Blow the Man Down	Gorski
2019	Lying and Stealing	Ray Warding
2020	Tesla	Anitai Szigeti
2022	Sharp Stick	Yuli
2023	No Hard Feelings	Gary
2024	Hold Your Breath	Wallace Grady
2025	The Fantastic Four: First Steps	Ben Grimm / The Thing
2026	Avengers: Doomsday	Ben Grimm / The Thing	Post-production
TBA	The Man I Love		Filming
TBA	A Long Winter		Filming
TBA	-	-	-