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name: "Jacob Appelbaum"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jacob-appelbaum"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 April 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:18:46.069218+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jacob Appelbaum

Actor. Born 1 April 1983 in USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 April 1983, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10070, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3335834/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1417332

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Citizenfour*](https://film.one/film/citizenfour.md) (83)

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## Biography

Jacob Appelbaum is an American independent journalist, computer security researcher and hacker. He was born on 1 April 1983 in the USA.

Appelbaum was a core member of the Tor Project and contributed to the publication of documents leaked by Edward Snowden. He appears as himself in Laura Poitras's documentary *Citizenfour* (2014) and in her film *Risk* (2016).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Citizenfour* (2014), Fi1m 83, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/citizenfour.md)

## Also known for

- *Risk* (2017), Self

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