Morgan Spector

Spector grew up in Guerneville, California.[1] His father was an attorney and his mother worked in public education as a teacher and then as an administrator.[1] He acted for the first time in community theater at the age of eight; and later acted in high school and college productions.[2] After graduating from Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, he enrolled in the acting school of the American Conservatory Theater, in San Francisco, and then pursued work in regional theater, including a tour in The Lion King.[2] He moved to New York City in 2006.[2] Spector is Jewish on his father's side. His paternal grandmother was an actress in the New York Yiddish Theatre District.[1][3][4][5][6]

In 2010 Spector made his Broadway debut as Rodolpho in Gregory Mosher's revival of Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge – a role he was unexpectedly called upon to play (having originally been cast in a bit part, as a longshoreman) when the actor scheduled for the role was injured during previews.[2] In 2012 he played the role of Boris in The New Group's Off-Broadway production of The Russian Transport, by Erika Sheffer.[2]

In 2014 he co-starred with Rebecca Hall in a Broadway revival of Sophie Treadwell's Machinal. They appeared together on stage in New York again in June 2017, after marrying, in Clare Lizzimore's play Animal.[7] They have also appeared together on screen in the 2016 drama Christine and the 2017 film Permission.[2]

In 2018 Spector starred alongside Olivia Wilde in the drama A Vigilante.[8] In 2019, he starred alongside Gina Torres in the legal drama Pearson on USA Network, a spin-off of Suits.[9]

In 2020, he starred in the HBO miniseries adaptation of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, alongside Winona Ryder.[5][6][10] In 2022, he also headlines alongside Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski in HBO's The Gilded Age.[11][12]

In September 2015 Spector married actress Rebecca Hall, whom he had first met the year before, during their work together in the Broadway play Machinal.[2] Their first child was born in 2018.[13]

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