Biography
John Robert Magaro (born February 16, 1983) is an American actor. He has acted in the films Not Fade Away (2012), The Big Short (2015), Carol (2015), Overlord (2018), First Cow (2019), Showing Up (2022), The Mistress (2022), and Past Lives (2023). He has also acted in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black (2015–2019), The Umbrella Academy (2019) and the Amazon series Crisis in Six Scenes (2016). He made his Broadway debut as Earl Williams, the escaped convict, in the revival of The Front Pa...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Bride!
2026
In the 1930s, a lonely Frankenstein travels to Chicago to seek the aid of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a...

The Mastermind
2025
as Fred
In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, hi...

Materialists
2025
as Mark P. (voice)
A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.

Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
2025
as Keane
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing co...

Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
2025
Executive Producer
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing co...

Köln 75
2025
as Keith Jarrett
Behind one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert, how it almost didn’t happen, and how one formidable German...

Omaha
2025
as Dad
After a family tragedy, siblings Ella and Charlie are unexpectedly woken up by their dad and taken on a journey across the country, experiencing a wor...

Day of the Fight
2024
as Patrick
On the day of his first fight since his release from prison, a once-renowned boxer embarks on a redemptive journey through his past and present.

September 5
2024
as Geoffrey Mason
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.

LaRoy, Texas
2024
as Ray
Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual...

Under the Boardwalk
2023
as Manny (voice)
Two crabs embark on an epic journey to get home after a storm sweeps them away. Their courage soon unites their families, paving the way for great sum...

The Mistress
2023
as Parker
Newlyweds Parker and Madeline move into their dream home. As they settle in, they discover a box of old love letters written to the original owner. An...

Past Lives
2023
as Arthur
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, a...

Big George Foreman
2023
as Desmond
Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followe...

Showing Up
2023
as Sean
In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.

Tender
2023
Producer
A missing wallet threatens to destroy a teenager’s life.

Call Jane
2022
as Detective Chilmark
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to...

18½
2022
as Paul
In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½-minute gap in Nixon's tapes...

Private Property
2022
Thanks
Kathryn, a struggling actress and unfulfilled housewife, becomes friendly with her new gardener, Ben. He gives her the attention and sensitivity she c...

The Many Saints of Newark
2021
as Silvio Dante
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise ...

Lansky
2021
as Young Meyer Lansky
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the ret...

The Birthday Cake
2021
as Cousin Joey
On the 10th anniversary of his father's death, Giovanni reluctantly accepts the task of bringing a cake to the home of his uncle, a mob boss, for a ce...

First Cow: A Place in This World
2020
as Self
Behind the scenes of the creation of Kelly Reichardt's First Cow (2019).

First Cow
2020
as Cookie
In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon th...

Sylvie's Love
2020
as Sid
When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends ch...

Overlord
2018
as Private First Class Lyle Tibbet
France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy ...

Marshall
2017
as Irwin Friedman
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

War Machine
2017
as Cory Staggart
A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true stor...

Don't Worry Baby
2016
as Robert Lang
A father and son unknowingly sleep with the same woman, then four years later compete over the paternity of a child either of them could be the father...

The Finest Hours
2016
as Ervin Maske
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

The Big Short
2015
as Charlie Geller
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

Carol
2015
as Dannie McElroy
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

Unbroken
2014
as Frank A. Tinker
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

Deep Powder
2013
as Cota
When a teen from the wrong side of the tracks falls in love with a wealthy girl at the local boarding school, he agrees to help her smuggle drugs from...

Not Fade Away
2012
as Douglas Damiano
Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.

Liberal Arts
2012
as Dean
Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a bo...

Down the Shore
2011
as Martin
Set on the Jersey shore, the lives of three childhood friends begin to unravel when a secret from their past is revealed

My Soul to Take
2010
as Alex
On the day the Riverton Ripper vanished without a trace, seven children were born. Today, they're all turning 16... and turning up dead.

The Box
2009
as Charles
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A...

Taking Chance
2009
as Rich Brewer
Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.

Assassination of a High School President
2008
as Cipriato
After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief. Bobby prints an article f...

The Brave One
2007
as Ethan
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

The Life Before Her Eyes
2007
as Michael Patrick
As the 15th anniversary of a fatal high school shooting approaches, former pupil Diana McFee is haunted by memories of the tragedy. After losing her b...
Bomb
2007
What starts as an innocent flirtation between teenagers on the edge of an old bombing range turns askew when a trip home reveals a chaotic adult world...
Silk
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Director
In this short narrative nod to the classic film Gaslight, gifted aerialist Cara falls hard for Sol, the lighting designer on her upcoming high-stakes ...