Benny Safdie Biography
Benny Safdie is a film director, screenwriter, actor, and editor most known for his collaborations with his brother Josh. Heaven Knows What, Good Time, and Uncut Gems are among his directing credits. Safdie made the shift to acting, earning the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in Good Time.
How old is Benny Safdie? – Age
He is 37 years old as of 24 February 2023. He was born in 1986 in New York, United States.
Benny Safdie Family – Education
Safdie was born in New York parents Amy and Alberto Safdie; he is Jewish. Following their parents’ divorce, he and brother Josh split their youth between their father in Queens and their mother and stepfather in Manhattan. He attended Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School and earned his bachelor’s degree in communication from Boston University in 2008.
Benny Safdie Wife
He has two boys with his wife, Ava Safdie (née Francis).
Benny Safdie Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $500 thousand.
Benny Safdie Oppenheimer
He appeared as Edward Teller, a Hungarian theoretical physicist known for being the “father of the hydrogen bomb” in the 2023 epic biographical thriller film Oppenheimer. While studying under experimental physicist Patrick Blackett in 1926, J. Robert Oppenheimer, a 22-year-old PhD student, battles with anxiety and homesickness. He enrolls at Göttingen to study theoretical physics, where he meets fellow physicists Isidor Isaac Rabi and Werner Heisenberg.
Oppenheimer intends to broaden quantum physics research in the United States and will begin teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California Institute of Technology. Nuclear fission is discovered in 1938, and Oppenheimer understands it has the potential to be weaponized. In 1942, he oversees the Manhattan Project, which is motivated by the Nazis’ nuclear weapons program, to produce an atomic bomb.
Benny Safdie The Curse
He appeared as Dougie Schecter, the producer of the HGTV American comedy television series The Curse. The story focuses on “how an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show, Flipanthropy.”
Benny Safdie Obi-Wan Kenobi
He appeared as Nari: A Jedi hiding on Tatooine who escaped Order 66 as a Youngling in the American television miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi. Ten years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)—in which the Jedi were purged with Order 66 and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, became the Sith Lord Darth Vader—Kenobi is in hiding on the planet Tatooine, watching over Anakin’s son, Luke, when he is called on a mission to rescue Anakin’s daughter, Leia, after she is kidnapped by the Galactic Empire’s Jedi-hunting Inquisitors in a plot to draw Kenobi out. This leads to a showdown between Kenobi and Darth Vader.
Benny Safdie Licorice Pizza
He appeared as Joel Wachs, a politician running for Mayor of Los Angeles in the 2021 American comedy-drama film Licorice Pizza. Gary Valentine meets photographer Alana Kane and begins dating her in 1973. They begin selling waterbeds and reunite at a trade show. Alana is mistaken for a murder suspect and is detained, but she is later freed. They launch a business named “Fat Bernie’s” and perform a motorbike stunt. The waterbed company is forced to close due to the 1973 oil crisis, and Alana and Gary deliver waterbeds to Jon Peters’ home. Alana volunteers with Joel Wachs, a local councilman running for mayor. Gary learns that pinball will be authorized in the Valley shortly and chooses to create an arcade. Alana meets Wachs and Matthew, and they finally marry, kissing and professing their love.
Benny Safdie Movies
♦ 2017 – Person to Person
♦ 2017 – Good Time
♦ 2020 – Pieces of a Woman
♦ 2021 – Licorice Pizza
♦ 2022 – Stars at Noon
♦ 2023 – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
♦ 2017 – Oppenheimer
Benny Safdie TV Shows
♦ 2016 – Togetherness
♦ 2022 – Obi-Wan Kenobi
♦ 2023 – The Curse
