Russell Harvard

Russell Harvard
Russell Harvard at the NY premiere of Tribes, March 4, 2012
Born
Russell Wayne Harvard

(1981-04-16) April 16, 1981 (age 43)
Pasadena, Texas, United States
OccupationActor
Years active2006–present

Russell Wayne Harvard (born April 16, 1981) is an American actor. He made his feature film debut in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), playing opposite Daniel Day-Lewis as his adopted son, H.W. Plainview. In the 2010 biopic The Hammer, he portrayed deaf NCAA championship wrestler and UFC mixed martial arts fighter Matt Hamill. Harvard also won acclaim Off Broadway in 2012 as Billy, the deaf son in an intellectual, though dysfunctional, hearing British family, in Tribes by Nina Raine. For his interpretation, he won a 2012 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance[1] and nominations for Drama League,[2] Outer Critics Circle[3] and Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor.[4] He played Mr. Wrench in the first and third seasons of the television series Fargo.

  1. ^ 2011-2012 Theatre World Award Recipients, Theatre World Awards, retrieved 27 January 2013
  2. ^ 2011-2012 Drama League Awards Nominations, The Drama League, archived from the original on 20 January 2013, retrieved 27 January 2013
  3. ^ Outer Critics Circle Announce 2011-12 Season Winners, Outer Critics Circle, 22 May 2012, archived from the original on 17 September 2007, retrieved 27 January 2013
  4. ^ 2012 Nominations by Category, The Lucille Lortel Awards, archived from the original on 28 July 2018, retrieved 27 January 2013