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Born
January 7, 1971 · Modesto, California, USA

Birth name
Jeremy Lee Renner

Spouse
Sonni Pacheco (January 13, 2014 – December 28, 2015) (divorced, 1 child)

QUOTES:

[on shooting The Hurt Locker (2008) in the unbearable heat of Jordan] We were already pushed to the limits. People wanted to quit. All the departments were struggling to get their jobs done, none of them were communicating. There was a lot of fighting going on. The heat does something to your brain, and on top of that I was in this bomb suit and I had explosive diarrhoea, so I was like: ‘Get this thing off me!’ I wanted to punch people. You could not pay me enough money to do it again.

[2009, on his childhood] My sister was the complete opposite, she had a hard time growing up, and I was just always the happy kid. I played the drums, had my mullet, drove around on my motorcycle making out with chicks, just having a good ol’ time. But it just happened while growing up – all these divorces, separations, moving to a different school every year – that things started to take a toll. The stage became a great playground for me to express feelings, and in my household there wasn’t a place for me to do that. It was a great venue for me to hide in a character and express rage and sadness, and I created these really disturbed, complicated characters.

[2009] Most people my age – and I’m going to my twenty-year reunion next weekend – they’re all three divorces deep, and if they’re happy, right on. But that just wasn’t the path I wanted to go on. I was just getting into trouble, drinking, and doing stupid things until I stumbled onto acting class my junior year in college. The sense of self, the purpose. It opened this Pandora’s box of emotions and it went from there.