Actor

Russell Harvard

Born April 16, 19819 films

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.

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First watchThere Will Be Blood20078.1as Adult H.W. PlainviewRuthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into…View film

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6.5Causeway2022

Filmography

9 films as actor

TBAFlash Before the Bang
2022CausewayJustin
2022Far West
2017Here We AreTrevor
2013This Is NormalAlex
2011ClaustrophobiaTim
2010The HammerMatt Hamill
2008S is for Sexy
2007There Will Be BloodAdult H.W. Plainview