Jake Picking

Jake Picking (born ) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Rock Hudson in the Netflix series Hollywood, created by Ryan Murphy. He is also known for playing the role of Sean Collier in Patriots Day (2016), and appearing in Top Gun: Maverick (2022). In 2022, he starred as young Gerald Ford in the Showtime series The First Lady.

Biography Jake Picking was born in Erlangen, Germany, where his father, a United States Army soldier and West Point graduate, was stationed. He grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts. At New York University, Picking was a winger on the New York ice hockey team. He dropped out of business school after a year because he was more interested in acting and student film projects. As an ice hockey player, Picking appeared in an NHL commercial before his acting career. which deals with physical and psychological violence in the American college fraternity landscape. In the role of the sadistic oath master Dixon, Picking tormented Brett, played by Nick Jonas. In the same year he appeared in the thriller Patriots Day, Goat Dixon Rowley

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