Morgan Spector


Morgan Michael Spector is an American actor. Spector has appeared in the TV series Allegiance, The Mist, Homeland and Pearson, as well as the films The Drop, Christine and A Vigilante. In 2020, he appeared in two HBO projects, The Plot Against America and The Gilded Age.

Early life

Spector was born in Santa Rosa, in Northern California, and grew up in nearby Guerneville. His father was an attorney and his mother worked in public education as a teacher and then as an administrator. He acted for the first time in community theater at the age of 8; and later acted in high school and college productions. 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. He moved to New York City in 2006. Spector is Jewish on his father's side. His paternal grandmother was an actress in the New York Yiddish Theatre District.

Career

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 when the actor scheduled for the role was injured during previews. In 2012 he played the role of Boris, in The New Group's Off-Broadway production of The Russian Transport, by Erika Sheffer.
In 2014 he co-starred with Rebecca Hall in a Broadway revival of Sophie Treadwell's Machinal. Later, after he and Hall married, they again appeared together on stage in New York, in Clare Lizzimore's play Animal, in June 2017. The pair have also appeared together on screen in 2016's critically acclaimed drama, Christine and again in the 2017 film, Permission. In 2018 he starred alongside Olivia Wilde in the critically acclaimed drama, A Vigilante. In 2019, Spector starred alongside Gina Torres in the legal drama, Pearson on USA Network, a spin-off of Suits.
In 2020 he stars in two HBO projects. He stars alongside Winona Ryder in a miniseries adaptation of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America. He will also star alongside Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski in The Gilded Age, developed by Julian Fellowes.

Personal life

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.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre