29 years old (Born on May 28, 1995)
American, Actor.
Auditioned for a project by Lasse Hallstru00f6m at age 4. Unfortunately the film lost its financing.Son of Deborah Copaken Kogan and Pavel Kogan.
Nephew of Yegor Kogan.
Mother wrote an article for the New Yorker (March 2007) in which she described her conflicting feelings about being the parent of a child actor.
His father (and his father`s twin brother) starred in the Russian film Telegramma (1971) when they were young boys.
His newborn sibling in the film Joshua (2007) was played by his real-life newborn sibling. The director couldn`t find any other young babies and Jacob`s sibling had just been born so his mother was persuaded to bring her newborn onto the set.
Older brother of Sasha Kogan (born March 1997) and Leo Kogan (born May 2006.).
Son of an author/journalist and an executive at OMGPOP.com.
Jacob attends a private school and is active in many arts, music being one of them.
He is an accomplished guitar player, and plays guitar in a band with some schoolmates and also plays piano. (teenidols4you.com) Jacob Kogan became interested in acting at the age of four, when a casting director, the mother of another child in his playgroup, asked him to audition for a Lasse Hallstrom film. u00a0He made it to the final round of callbacks, but then the film lost its financing, and Kogan’s parents lost interest in the whole idea of Jacob Kogan, child actor. u00a0 The boy, however, did not. u00a0From that day on, he kept asking to try out for other films, and his parents kept saying no, until one day, when he was seven years old and quite adamant, his parents relented.
Reluctantly, they agreed to let him go on auditions with four basic caveats: u00a01) no commercials; 2) no dumb TV; 3) no bad films; 4) no anything that would relocate him to Los Angeles. u00a0Within a year, he landed various roles on Wonder showzen, an MTV comedy that was shooting in his native New York. u00a0Then along came Joshua, first role in a film. He has been Nominated for a Young Artist Award for his role In Joshua for BEST PERFORMANCE IN A FEATURE FILM Leading Young Actor.
Kogan comes by his acting bug honestly. u00a0His father Paul (nu00e9e Pavel), a technology executive at Microsoft, became a child actor in his native Moscow, starring in the Rolan Bykov film TELEGRAMMA and various other Soviet films.
Kogan was ten years old during the filming of Joshua, after Joshua he has appeared in the 2008 film Wherever You Are and played `Young Spock` in Star Trek (2009) he also appears as `David` in the television series Delocated.
Kogan’s great love, like Joshua’s, is music, and though he trained with a Julliard professor to play the classical piano pieces in the film, he is an electric guitar player at heart; he’s the lead singer and guitarist in his band, Flake, which won the Battle of the Bands at the Bloomingdale School of Music in Manhattan in spring of 2006.
(teenstarsonlinejacobkogan.com)
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