Trained at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Jake performed as an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in London’s West End, and toured internationally with the Tom Waits/William Burroughs collaboration, The Black Rider.

After relocating to Los Angeles, he began a writing partnership with his friend Ben Lustig. They broke in 2014 with their spec script Winter's Knight, an origin story of Santa Claus, which sold for $1 million.

He is married to actress Siri Baruc and they have two children, Phoenix and Bodhi.