Jake Pearlman was born on April 25, 1985 in Riverdale, New York. At age 3, he and his family moved to Millburn, New Jersey and at age 9, they moved to Florida. He's been very involved in acting and martial arts since a young age and performing in various elementary and middle school plays. By his sophomore year in high school he had made his decision to pursue acting as a career, continuing to take acting classes and perform in plays. With acting in film always being his goal, Jake was finally able to pursue that as the film industry started to expand to the southeastern United States when he was 25. He has since been keeping himself busy as an actor in a variety of roles from an eccentric washed-up martial arts movie star, to an exceptionally skilled hitman, to a crazy cowboy,