Biography
Michael Esper was born on December 1, 1976 in New York, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for The Outsider (2020), Ben Is Back (2018) and Trust (2018).
Known For
Complete Filmography
Pavements
2025
as Essem
Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed of...
To Kill a Wolf
2024
as Carey
In a modern re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood, a social pariah discovers a teenage runaway in the Oregon Wilderness and does his best to help her...
Griffin in Summer
2024
as Bill
14-year-old aspiring playwright Griffin becomes enamored with a local handyman over the course of summer vacation.
The Creator
2023
as Captain Cotton
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of h...
Beau Is Afraid
2023
as Officer Johnson
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odys...
Resurrection
2022
as Peter
A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for t...
Ben Is Back
2018
as Clayton
19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming...
For George on His 30th Birthday
2018
as George
In the suburban South of the not-so-distant past, former MySpace-famous musician George spends a strange night with Deena, an old flame.
Lazarus
2018
as Valentine
Inspired by the book, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Lazarus focuses on Thomas Newton, as he remains still on Earth - a 'man' unable to die, his head soak...
The Drop
2014
as Rardy
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where f...
Broadway Idiot
2013
as Himself (archive footage)
Broadway Idiot follows Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong from a punk rock concert at Madison Square Garden to the opening of his musical American Idiot...
Runner Runner
2013
as Billy 'Pet' Petricoff
When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore e...
Frances Ha
2013
as Dan
An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbac...
Watching TV with the Red Chinese
2011
as Billy
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of C...
All Good Things
2010
as Daniel Marks
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murd...
Bunker Hill
2009
as Pete Walsh
In this unaired TNT TV pilot, a Charlestown native returns to his hometown from serving in Afghanistan to join the Boston Police force like his father...
Light and the Sufferer
2008
as Paul
Realism and fantasy collide in Jonathan Lethem's genre-bending coming-of-age story, which follows two estranged brothers as they try to leave New York...
Loggerheads
2005
as Gill
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a ...
Bittersweet Place
2005
as Joey
The story of the Schaffer family, made up of terminally ill father Jack and his two daughters, bipolar Pappy, and Susannah, who tries to keep the fami...
A Beautiful Mind
2001
as John Nash Jr. (Young Man)
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, ...