Morgan Spector

Spector was born in Santa Rosa, in Northern California, and grew up in nearby Guerneville. [2] His father was an attorney and his mother worked in public education as a teacher and then as an administrator.[2] He acted for the first time in community theater at the age of eight; and later acted in high school and college productions.[3] 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.[3] He moved to New York City in 2006.[3] Spector is Jewish on his father's side. His paternal grandmother was an actress in the New York Yiddish Theatre District.[4][5][2][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.[3] In 2012 he played the role of Boris, in The New Group's Off-Broadway production of The Russian Transport, by Erika Sheffer.[3]

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.[7] The pair have also appeared together on screen in 2016's critically acclaimed drama, Christine and again in the 2017 film, Permission.[3] In 2018 he starred alongside Olivia Wilde in the critically acclaimed drama, A Vigilante.[8] In 2019, Spector starred alongside Gina Torres in the legal drama, Pearson on USA Network, a spin-off of Suits.[9]

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.[10] He will also star alongside Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski in The Gilded Age, developed by Julian Fellowes.[11]

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.[3]

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