Boardwalk Empire star Michael Stuhlbarg was attacked by a rock-wielding homeless man near New York City’s Central Park.
Stuhlbarg, 55, was approached apparently at random by the attacker in the exclusive Upper East Side neighborhood on Sunday night, police told DailyMail.com.
He was walking near East 90th and East Drive around 7:45 p.m. when Xavier Israel, 27, threw a rock at his head, hitting him in the back of the head.
The NYPD said Stuhlbarg was offered medical attention at the scene for “minor injuries,” but he refused treatment.
Stuhlbarg, 55, was approached seemingly at random by a homeless man on the Upper East Side on Sunday night.
The actor was walking near East 90th and East Drive around 7:45 p.m. when Xavier Israel, 27, hit him in the back of the head with a rock. (Pictured: Israel’s booking photo last night)
Pictured: Hope Davis as Gina Baxter and Michael Stuhlbarg as Jimmy Baxter in Your Honor
After the attack, Stuhlbarg pursued Israel and was detained by police officers stationed in front of the Russian consulate at 9 E 91 Street.
Israel, who is homeless, was detained and charged with assault.
He had previously been arrested for two violent assaults and a robbery in January 2022, police confirmed.
In one incident that month, he knocked a 59-year-old good Samaritan to the ground and assaulted him after the man tried to offer him a coat in frigid temperatures.
Israel was also arrested for attacking another person who offered him help – this time a 49-year-old woman – and for allegedly beating two 18-year-olds in Central Park.
Pictured: Xavier Israel booked for previous assault in Manhattan in January 2022
Israel wore a coronavirus mask to conceal his identity when he appeared in court over the January attacks.
Pictured: Israel is arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on assault and robbery charges for punching and taunting a good Samaritan who tried to give him a coat in January 2022.
All of the attacks took place in January 2022 and Israel has no further criminal records before or after this month, police told DailyMail.com.
The first incident, in which Israel attacked the man who offered him a coat, was captured on surveillance footage.
The video shows the victim trying to help Israel, who was lying on the sidewalk at 476 5th Avenue around 8 p.m. on a particularly cold night.
The victim gently places a jacket he was wearing over Israel before the homeless man jumps out and pushes him to the ground.
Israel grabbed the man’s wallet from his back pants pocket while he was on the ground before fleeing the scene.
The victim attempts to retrieve his wallet before Israel punches him and throws him to the ground.
When Israel was arrested shortly after at West 41st Street and 5th Avenue, officers found nearly $1,500 in cash stuffed in his pants.
Pictured: David Gordon Green (left) as Brad and Michael Stuhlbarg (right) as Jake in Bones And All.
Pictured: Stuhlbarg poses for a portrait to promote the film “Shirley” at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, January 26, 2020 in Park City, Utah.
Stuhlbarg was attacked in the exclusive east side neighborhood of New York’s Central Park.
Israel’s latest victim, Stuhlbarg, rose to fame playing troubled college professor Larry Gopnik in the 2009 black comedy A Serious Man.
Since then, the California-born actor has played George Yeaman in Lincoln, Lew Wasserman in Hitchcock and Andy Hertzfeld in Steve Jobs.
He is perhaps best known for playing Arnold Rothstein on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire.
Stuhlbarg has been recognized with several awards, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, along with nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
