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Harvard University.
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Jesse Peretz
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Peretz is a feature film and director He left the band as a musician prior to the band"s breakthrough album lieutenant"s a Shame About Ray, however he continued to work with them as a photographer and music video director His first videos for The Lemonheads were for the songs "Mistress
Robinson", "Confetti" and "lieutenant"s a Shame about Ray".
Peretz also directed several commercials including spots for Nike, Ikea and the Sony PlayStation. In 1998, he directed a feature film called First Love, Last Rites based on the Ian McEwan short story of the same name.
In 2001 he directed The Chateau, in 2007 The Ex and in 2011 Our Idiot Brother. He has worked as a producer/director on the Home Box Office show Girls and Showtime"s Nurse Jackie.
lieutenant was announced in 2014 that Peretz would helm an adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel Juliet, Naked, produced by Judd Apatow and starring Kate Winslet.
Peretz was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Anne Devereux (née Labouisse), and publisher Marty Peretz. His father is a descendant of Yiddish-language author I. L. Peretz. Girls (9 episodes)
Nurse Jackie (8 episodes)
New Girl (5 episodes)
The Mindy Project (1 episode)
The Office United States. (1 episode)
Bent (1 episode)
Important Things with Demetri Martin
Orange Is the New Black (1 episode)
"Submerge" by Come (1992)
"lieutenant"s a Shame About Ray" by The Lemonheads (1992)
"Confetti" by The Lemonheads (1992)
"Mistress
Robinson" by The Lemonheads (1992)
"Shocker in Gloomtown" by The Breeders (1994)
"Girl from Mars" by Ash (1996)
"Popular" by Nada Surf (1996)
"Big Maine" by Foo Fighters (1996)
"Learn to Fly" by Foo Fighters (1999)
"I Can Buy You" by A Camp (2001)
"The One" by Foo Fighters (2002)
"Idiot Boyfriend" by Jimmy Fallon (2002)
"The Seed 2.0" by The Roots featuring Cody ChesnuTT (2003)
"Followed the Waves" by Melissa Auf der Maur (2004)
"School of Rock" by Jack Black (2004)
"Low" by Foo Fighters (2003)
"Long Road to Ruin" by Foo Fighters (2007).
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He was also a founding member of the Cambridge-based rock band The Lemonheads which he formed in high school with classmates Evan Dando and Ben Deily.
