Morgan Spector

Morgan Spector is an American actor.

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.

His mother is of mostly Irish Catholic descent.

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.

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.

Spector has appeared in the TV series Allegiance (2015), The Mist (2017), Homeland (2018), and Pearson (2019), as well as the films The Drop (2014), Christine (2016), and A Vigilante (2018).

He starred in the HBO project The Plot Against America, and also appears in the network's The Gilded Age.

Spector grew up in Guerneville, California.

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 eight; 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.

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.

They have also appeared together on screen in the 2016 drama Christine and the 2017 film Permission.

They appeared together on stage in New York again in June 2017, after marrying, in Clare Lizzimore's play Animal.

In 2018 Spector starred alongside Olivia Wilde in the drama A Vigilante.

Their first child was born in 2018.

Morgan, alongside 30 other artists, came together to read the dossier of South Africa's case alleging Israel committed genocide in Gaza.

The reading was organised by Palifest.

In 2019, he starred alongside Gina Torres in the legal drama Pearson on USA Network, a spin-off of Suits.

In 2020, he starred in the HBO miniseries adaptation of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, alongside Winona Ryder.

In 2022, he also headlines alongside Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski in HBO's The Gilded Age.