Billy Magnussen

Billy Magnussen is an American actor and musician known for his work across Broadway, film and television. He made his Broadway debut in 2007 in The Ritz, starring Rosie Perez, and later appeared in Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which began at McCarter Theatre before moving to Lincoln Center and Broadway's John Golden Theatre. For his performance as Spike, Magnussen received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play. In 2014, he starred opposite Anna Gunn in the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Sex with Strangers at Second Stage Theater, directed by David Schwimmer. His additional stage credits include Shit. Meet. Fan.

Magnussen's film credits include Happy Tears, Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet, Twelve, Choose, Damsels in Distress, Surviving Family, The Brass Teapot, 2nd Serve, The East, Revenge of the Green Dragons, Into the Woods, I Smile Back, The Meddler, Bridge of Spies, The Great Gilly Hopkins, The Big Short, Birth of the Dragon, Ingrid Goes West, Game Night, The Oath, Velvet Buzzsaw, Aladdin, The Survivor, The Many Saints of Newark, No Time to Die, Family Squares, Coup!, Spy Kids: Armageddon, Lift, Road House, Reunion, Lilo & Stitch, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey and Violent Ends. He starred as Rapunzel's Prince in Rob Marshall's Into the Woods, played Prince Anders in Disney's Aladdin, and portrayed CIA officer Logan Ash in the James Bond film No Time to Die. In Coup!, he also served as executive producer, as he did on Reunion. His 2025 credits include Lilo & Stitch, in which he played Agent Wendy Pleakley and provided the character's voice, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey and Violent Ends. His upcoming credits include The Social Reckoning and Buzzkill.

On television, Magnussen took over the role of Casey Hughes on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns in 2008 and appeared in the series through 2010. His other television credits include Law & Order, The Unusuals, The Beautiful Life: TBL, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Lost Valentine, In Plain Sight, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Blue Bloods, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Boardwalk Empire, Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell, It Could Be Worse, The Leftovers, The Divide, The Good Wife, The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Friends from College, Get Shorty, Black Mirror, Maniac, Tell Me a Story, The Bold Type, Made for Love, Woke, The Offer, The Franchise, Elsbeth and The Audacity. He played Kato Kaelin in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Russ Snyder in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Robert Redford in The Offer. He also played Joshua "Nick" Sullivan in the first season of Tell Me a Story, Byron Gogol in Made for Love, Adam Randolph in The Franchise and Duncan Park in The Audacity.

Magnussen has also worked in audio drama, playing Grant in the scripted podcast Unwanted in 2021 and The Joker in Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind in 2023.

In addition to acting, Magnussen has a background in music. He was formerly the bass player and a contributing songwriter for the New York City-based rock band The Dash and plays guitar in the New York City-based band Reserved for Rondee.

Magnussen was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike in 2013. In 2018, he won the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble for Game Night.