Russell Harvard

Born: 1981-04-16

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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There Will Be Blood

as Adult H.W. Plainview
Released: 2007-12-26

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California....

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Causeway

as Justin
Released: 2022-10-28

A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to...

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The Hammer

as Matt Hamill
Released: 2010-10-26

A coming of age drama following the life of Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a...

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The Tuba Thieves

as Nature Boy
Released: 2024-03-15

A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this...

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Far West

as uncredited
Released: 2022-03-11

Two friends get stuck in the desert after finding a mysterious briefcase that they hope will...

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Here We Are

as Trevor
Released: 2017-10-28

A young writer attempts to escape his slacker surroundings for the great American unknown by...

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Fargo

as Mr. Wrench
First aired: 2014-04-15

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based...

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Fringe

as Joe
First aired: 2008-09-09

FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter...

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Switched at Birth

as Julian Stanton
First aired: 2011-06-06

The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the...

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