Russell Harvard

Birthday: 1981-04-16
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Gender: Male
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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 and nominations for Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor.

He played Mr. Wrench in the first and third seasons of the television series Fargo.

Credits

Year Title Character
Flash Before the Bang
2024-03-15 The Tuba Thieves Nature Boy
2022-10-28 Causeway Justin
2022-03-11 Far West
2017-10-28 Here We Are Trevor
2013-04-09 This Is Normal Alex
2011-02-01 Claustrophobia Tim
2010-10-26 The Hammer Matt Hamill
2007-12-26 There Will Be Blood Adult H.W. Plainview