Morgan Michael Spector (born October 4, 1980) is an American actor.
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). In 2020, he
appeared in two HBO projects, The Plot Against America and The Gilded
Age.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.In 2010 Spector made his Broadway debut as
Rodolpho in Gregory Mosher's revival of Arthur Miller's play A View
from the Bridge â€" 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. 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.
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). In 2020, he
appeared in two HBO projects, The Plot Against America and The Gilded
Age.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.In 2010 Spector made his Broadway debut as
Rodolpho in Gregory Mosher's revival of Arthur Miller's play A View
from the Bridge â€" 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. 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.
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