Background
Adam Rothenberg was born to Gillian and Kenneth Rothenberg in Tenafly, New Jersey on June 20, 1975. He is of Jewish ancestry on his father"s side and has two brothers and three sisters.
Adam Rothenberg was born to Gillian and Kenneth Rothenberg in Tenafly, New Jersey on June 20, 1975. He is of Jewish ancestry on his father"s side and has two brothers and three sisters.
He is perhaps best known for his role as Captain Homer Jackson in the British Broadcasting Corporation One drama mystery series Ripper Street (2012–present). In film, he has starred in Mad Money (2008) as Bob Truman, Tennessee (2008) as Carter, and The Immigrant (2013) as Officer DeKeiffer.
In 2008, he revealed to People Magazine that, before turning to acting, he was a garbage man, a fact-checker for Mademoiselle Magazine, and a security guard.
Rothenberg trained as an actor at the Acting Studio under James Price in New York City. While there, he performed numerous roles with Chelsea Repertory Company & Laboratory From 1996 to 1997, he served in the United States Army, based in Germany.
Rothenberg"s acting performances have been varied, with a mix of television, film and theatre work. In New York, Rothenberg has starred in many Office-Broadway shows.
These include the lead in Second Stage Theatre"s revival of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (2004), as well as his critically acclaimed role in The Women"s Project"s Birdy (2003).
In 2006, Rothenberg played the Scottish storyteller Chimney Bosch in the Master Control Console Theater"s The Wooden Breeks, directed by Trip Cullman. Outside of New York, Rothenberg starred opposite Patricia Clarkson as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Kennedy Center"s Tennessee Williams Festival (2004). At the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Massachusetts, United States of America, he starred as Doug in Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros"s Mother of Invention (2003), directed by Nicholas Martin, and as Lord Darlington in Lady Windermere"s Fan (2005), directed by Moisés Kaufman.
In 2011, he starred as Krogstad in A Doll"s House.
Rothenberg then starred in the Mark Taper Forum"s 2011 production of Burn This. Other theatre performances include Finder"s Fee at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, A Steady Rain, The Center of Gravity, Mad Forest, I"m Really Here and Almost Like Being.
In his television work, Rothenberg filmed one of the lead roles, Evan Wexler, in Fox"s unaired television pilot Damages, and was also one of the leads, Eddie Caprio, in the half-hour comedy Misconceptions, which also did not air. In 2008, he appeared in a recurring role in the television series The Ex List.
Since 2012, he has had a starring role in the British Broadcasting Corporation One drama mystery television series Ripper Street, portraying Captain
Homer Jackson. In 2015, he was cast in the pilot of American Broadcasting Company"s crime drama series Wicked City as Detective Jack Roth, an officer searching for a serial killer on the Sunset Strip. His role was recast in July 2015 after the show received its American Broadcasting Company airdate, and the role was instead given to Jeremy Sisto.
