Jake Lacy

Lacy was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, to parents from Needham. He was raised in Pittsford, Vermont.^[2][4] His maternal grandmother was born on Molokai, Hawaii, and was of half Hawaiian descent.^[5] He attended Otter Valley Union High School, graduating in 2004.^[6]

In 2008, Lacy graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) in Winston-Salem. After graduation, he worked in New York state as a gym receptionist, a bar-back at a club, and a waiter while taking auditions, until he was cast as Casey in Better with You.^[7]

Lacy acted in high school and performed on professional stages in A Midsummer Night's Dream as Demetrius (in Hartford Stage's production), and Much Ado About Nothing as Conrad (in the Oberon Theater Ensemble's production).^[4] He had brief roles in a few episodes of Guiding Light before its cancellation.^[7] In 2010, he had a lead role in the Columbia thesis film C'est moi.^[8]

From 2010 to 2011, Lacy starred as Casey in the ABC sitcom Better with You.^[9] He starred as Pete Miller, or "Plop", in the ninth and last season of The Office.^[10] His next role was in the independent sports comedy Balls Out, as Caleb Fuller, who leads an intramural football team.^[11] In 2014, he starred in the comedy-drama film Obvious Child opposite Jenny Slate.^[12] He also appeared in the HBO comedy Girls as Fran, a love interest of Lena Dunham's protagonist Hannah. Lacy starred opposite Rooney Mara in Carol (2015), as Richard, her character's boyfriend.^[13]

In 2016, Lacy appeared in the WWII-set dramedy Their Finest, directed by Lone Scherfig,^[14] which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival,^[15] and Miss Sloane, a political thriller directed by John Madden, which premiered at the AFI Fest.^[16][17] In 2017, Lacy co-starred in I'm Dying Up Here, a comedy series on Showtime.^[18] In 2019, he appeared as a love interest of Gwen Verdon, played by Michelle Williams, in Fosse/Verdon, on FX.

He played a New York police detective in the 2026 Hulu crime drama series Furious. His character Marshall Connelly was the ex-boyfriend of FBI agent Alice Black, played by Emmy Rossum.^[19]

Lacy married longtime girlfriend Lauren Deleo on August 22, 2015, in Dorset, Vermont.^[20] The couple have two sons.^[21]