In 2007, he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. Zahn is a lifelong military history buff and has said that one of his biggest regrets was having turned down a role in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. He also has a lake cabin near Pine City, Minnesota, where he enjoys tubing and fishing with his two children. He and his wife also run a local community theater, in which Zahn occasionally performs. They next moved to a 360-acre horse farm outside Lexington, Kentucky, where Zahn gardens and raises horses, goats, and sheep. In the 1990s, they bought a cabin in Pennsylvania and then a farm in New Jersey, near the Delaware Water Gap.
The couple married in 1994 and have two children.
Peterman, while they were performing in a national tour of Bye Bye Birdie in 1991. Zahn met author and theater artist Robyn Peterman, the daughter of clothier J. He researched the role by watching chimpanzee videos on YouTube, and later said that the motion capture process and lengthy digital takes made Bad Ape "the most challenging acting job I've ever had". In 2017, Zahn played Bad Ape in War for the Planet of the Apes. Zahn has also worked regularly in television, playing the role of Davis McClary on 36 episodes of HBO's Treme. Martin in Herzog's 2007 film Rescue Dawn to prepare for the role, he lost 40 pounds by eating mostly raw food. A longtime Werner Herzog fan, Zahn campaigned for the role of Vietnam prisoner of war Duane W. He received Oscar buzz for his role as Drew Barrymore's deadbeat ex in Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), and played the investigative journalist Adam Penenberg in Shattered Glass (2003). In the wake of Happy, Texas, Zahn began playing darker, more nuanced characters. In 1999, Zahn landed his first starring role in the critically acclaimed indie film Happy, Texas, for which he won a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival. He has said, "I'm the guy who gets up at six without an alarm clock. In the 1990s, Zahn was often approached by fans who assumed that he was an archetypal Generation X slacker, which was not the case. Īfter his breakout film role in 1994's Reality Bites, Zahn quickly gained a reputation for playing amiable stoners, slackers, and sidekicks in films such as That Thing You Do! (1996), You've Got Mail (1998), and Out of Sight (1998). From 1991 to 1992, he played Hugo Peabody in a national tour of Bye Bye Birdie starring Tommy Tune, and subsequently appeared in two Off-Broadway plays, Sophistry and Eric Bogosian's Suburbia. In 1991, Zahn formed the Malaparte theater company with a group of actor friends, including Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard. At A.R.T., he worked with the venerated stage director Andrei Șerban. His fellow actors suggested that Zahn study acting, inspiring him to enroll in American Repertory Theater's two-year training program.
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In 1991, Zahn made his professional stage debut in a Minnesota production of Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues after falsely claiming to be a member of Actors' Equity. "I wanted to be part of the circus." Zahn later enrolled in the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, earning a Master of Fine Arts. "I remember sitting through the second act thinking, I'm as good as that guy standing on the barricade," Zahn recalled. Zahn attended Gustavus Adolphus College for one semester but dropped out after seeing the original West End production of Les Misérables.
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Zahn with Jennifer Aniston at the premiere of their 2008 movie Management
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