Russell Harvard

Acting

Born April 16, 1981

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.

Filmography

• 2024The Tuba Thieves — Nature Boy
• 2022Causeway — Justin
• 2022Far West
• 2017Here We Are — Trevor
• Fargo — Mr. Wrench
• 2013This Is Normal — Alex
• 2011Claustrophobia — Tim
• Switched at Birth — Julian Stanton
• 2010The Hammer — Matt Hamill
• Fringe — Joe
• 2008S is for Sexy
• 2007There Will Be Blood — Adult H.W. Plainview
• Flash Before the Bang