Zack O'Malley Greenburg

Zack O'Malley Greenburg ( born March 8, 1985 in New York City ) is an American author, journalist and former child actor. He achieved a level of fame through his title role in the film based on a true story drama Lorenzo's Oil.

Career

At the age of about six years, he played the title role in the film drama Lorenzo's Oil on the side of Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon. His first magazine article, a review of a video game, Greensburg wrote at the age of 14 years for the magazine Boys' Life. Greensburg can demonstrate financial statements of the New York Hastings High School ( 2003) and Yale College (2007 ), where he extensively in Yale contributed to the content of the student newspaper Yale Daily News during his time.

In 2005 he started as a staff writer for Forbes Magazine to write, where he covers the topics of business, finance, tourism, music and sport to this day. Among his celebrity interview partners included, for example, Bruno Mars, 50 Cent, Akon, Afrika Bambaataa, Natasha Bedingfield, Swizz Beatz, Lil Jon, DMX and Mr. T. He is the author of Forbes own blogs The Beat Report. He also worked as a freelance journalist contributions for The Washington Post, Dan's Papers, The Huffington Post, Sports Illustrated, AOL Daily Finance, McSweeney's, Vibes and others. He was already active as a guest lecturer at the Berklee College of Music and at the universities of Yale, Georgetown and Harvard. Media companies such as BBC, CBS, CNBC, CNN, MTV, E!, Bloomberg, NPR and Reuters covered Greensburg as an expert to rate.

On 17 March 2011, written by him biography of rapper Jay -Z was released, entitled Empire State of Mind.

In 2012 he was one of the protagonists of the documentary Money, Power, Respect: Hip Hop Billion Dollar Industry.

Private

His journalistic talent Greensburg was laid in the cradle, because his parents are writers. Father Dan Greenburg is the author of the American science fiction series record ZACK ( Original title: The Zack Files, named after his son ) which was also broadcast on German television. His mother Suzanne O'Malley is a screenwriter of the series Law & Order and also wrote a book about the child killer Andrea Yates, in January 2004 under the title Are You There Alone? The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates appeared.

Greensburg still lives in his hometown of New York.