- John Eisen is a Minneapolis/St. Paul native, who began acting on stage at the age of eleven. Favorite stage roles include a six week run as Leontes in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale", and a five week run as Vershinin in Chekhov's "Three Sisters". Favorite short film roles include Star Wars artist Ralph McQuarrie in "Far, Far Away"; a vengeful, murderous ghost with one line in "Loop"; and a married man trying to buy a baby with his wife on the other side of the world in "Tiny Fingers". "Tiny Fingers" was nominated for "Best VR Film" at the FICMA Film Festival in Mexico City, and released exclusively on Facebook on May 4th, 2020, going viral. After two weeks, it had over 1.2 million views, and settled around 1.5 million views. "Little Eyes", the same film shot on a regular camera, was accepted into four film festivals in India.
He was offered the lead role in his first feature film, "Free By Noon". The film's release was delayed almost a year and half due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but premiered on October 15th, 2021 with a successful seven day run at Laemmle Glendale in Los Angeles. It can now be viewed on streaming platforms like Amazon Prime and Tubi.
John is also a short story writer, occasionally selling his work for development into film and television projects.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Artist's management team
- His mom's ancestors were some of the founding settlers of the City of Minneapolis, when it was just a fishing village called St. Anthony Main.
- He is related to the late Ed Lauter (The Artist, Seabiscuit, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, King Kong) through his maternal grandmother. Ed's mother, Sally, was his grandmother's aunt. He had a large role in Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot.
- He studied classical piano for 5 years with a retired, concert pianist in Minneapolis. His sister studied at the Berklee College of Music.
- His ancestry is primarily Irish, Balkan, Scandinavian, Eastern European, and English.
- John's great uncle, Tom Millott, was a New York theatre producer and director. Tom was a member of the Director's Unit of The Actors Studio. He was also the assistant stage manager for "The Sound of Music" starring Mary Martin, and served in the same capacity on the actress' legendary 1960 TV production of "Peter Pan".
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