Jesse Eisenberg is officially a Polish citizen. The actor, writer and director was granted citizenship by President Andrzej Duda at a ceremony in New York on Tuesday night, just days after his film “A Real Pain” won Kieran Culkin an Oscar for best supporting actor.

Kieran Culkin took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 2025 Academy Awards for his role as Benji Kaplan in Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain. In A Real Pain, Culkin and Eisenberg play an odd-couple cousin pairing on a trip around their grandmother's native Poland.

The film centers on two cousins, played by Eisenberg himself and Succession star Kieran Culkin, who travel through Poland on a Holocaust tour to their grandmother's ancestral home. “For me even to make a movie about this topic was worrying,

President Andrzej Duda has granted Polish citizenship to Jesse Eisenberg, who starred, wrote, and directed the Oscar-winning film, A Real Pain.