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Jesse Peretz (born May 19, 1968) is an American film and television director, TV producer and former musician. He first rose to prominence as a bass guitarist and founding member of The Lemonheads, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based band that formed in 1986.
From 1986 to 1989, Jesse Peretz was the original bass player and co-founder with seminal American alternative 'punk' guitar band The Lemonheads. Drummer David Ryan, who joined the band after Peretz left, co-wrote the scenario for Peretz's first feature film First Love, Last Rites (1997).
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Jesse Peretz was born in 1968. He is a director and producer, known for Our Idiot Brother (2011), Girls (2012) and GLOW (2017).
While majoring in film and photography at Harvard, Peretz played bass in a Boston-based rock band called The Lemonheads, but after directing a music video for them, he realized his first love...
A founding member of alt-rock cuties the Lemonheads in the late 1980s, he left the band in its early stages and initially made a name for himself as the music-video director responsible for such Alternative Nation classics as the Foo Fighters’ Mentos-spoofing “Big Me” and Nada Surf’s “Popular.”
The son of THE NEW REPUBLIC's editor-in-chief, Massachusetts native Jesse Peretz left behind a bass playing stint in the Boston-based rock band The Lemonheads in order to pursue...
Jun 6, 2023 · How ‘City on Fire’ director Jesse Peretz recreated life in NYC in the early aughts [Exclusive Video Interview]
