Corey Stoll Biography

Corey Daniel Stoll (born March 14, 1976) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Dr. Ephraim Goodweather on the American television horror/suspense series The Strain on the FX network, as well as Congressman Peter Russo in House of Cards, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination in 2013. He was a regular cast member on the NBC drama series Law & Order: LA (2010-2011), and portrayed Darren Cross (also known as Yellowjacket) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Ant-Man. Other notable roles include a 2004 Off-Broadway performance of Intimate Apparel, portraying Ernest Hemingway in the 2011 romantic comedy film Midnight in Paris and bulldog prosecutor Fred Wyshak in Black Mass.

Early life

Stoll was born on the Upper West Side of New York City, New York. He is the son of Judith and Stephen Stoll, who is the co-founder of The Beacon School. Stoll was raised Jewish. He studied drama at Long Lake Camp for the Arts from 1988 through 1992. He was a Drama Department graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1998, and from New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts in 2003.

Career

In 2004, Stoll received a Drama Desk Award nomination as Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for Intimate Apparel, opposite Tony winner and Oscar nominee Viola Davis. He went on to appear in several films, including North Country, Lucky Number Slevin, the television film A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Push. In 2010, he appeared in Helena from the Wedding and Salt.

Stoll starred as LAPD Detective Tomas "TJ" Jaruszalski on the NBC police drama Law & Order: LA. He played Ernest Hemingway in Woody Allen's 2011 film Midnight in Paris. Stoll, who is mostly bald, wore a custom wig for the role. In 2013, Stoll received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in the Netflix series House of Cards. After House of Cards, he joined the FX horror television series The Strain, which is based on a series of novels written by Chuck Hogan and film director Guillermo Del Toro.

In 2014, Stoll also played Austin Reilly, an NYPD police officer, in the action film Non-Stop, and Paul Altman in the comedy-drama This Is Where I Leave You. In 2015, Stoll played Ben Day in the film Dark Places, based on the novel by Gillian Flynn, and had a major role in the superhero film Ant-Man, playing Darren Cross, reimagined as the supervillain Yellowjacket. The following year, he reunited with Woody Allen, playing gangster Ben Dorfman in his 2016 film Caf Society. Also in the summer of 2016, he played the wily Greek warrior Ulysses in the Public Theater production of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, in Central Park.

Personal life

Stoll and his girlfriend, actress Nadia Bowers, became engaged in October 2014. The couple wed on June 21, 2015. They welcomed their first child in October 2015.

Nadia Bowers is a descendant of Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg, and of Napoleon's first wife, Josphine de Beauharnais (though she is not a descendant of Napoleon himself).

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes
2001	Okna		Joseph Cahill	Short film
2005	North Country	Ricky Sennett	Niki Caro
2006	Lucky Number Slevin	Saul	Paul McGuigan
2007	The Number 23	Sgt. Burns	Joel Schumacher
2009	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men	Subject #51	John Krasinski
2009	Push	Agent Mack	Paul McGuigan
2010	Salt	Schnaider	Phillip Noyce
2010	Helena from the Wedding	Steven	Joseph Infantolino
2011	Midnight in Paris	Ernest Hemingway	Woody Allen	Nominated"?Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
2012	The Bourne Legacy	Zev Vendel	Tony Gilroy
2012	The Time Being	Eric	Nenad Cicin-Sain
2012	Victoriana	Bill	Jadrien Steele
2013	C.O.G.	Curly	Kyle Patrick Alvarez
2013	Decoding Annie Parker	Sean	Steven Bernstein
2014	Non-Stop	Austin Reilly	Jaume Collet-Serra
2014	Glass Chin	Bud Gordon	Noah Buschel
2014	This Is Where I Leave You	Paul Altman	Shawn Levy
2014	The Good Lie	Jack	Philippe Falardeau
2015	Dark Places	Ben Day	Gilles Paquet-Brenner
2015	Anesthesia	Sam	Tim Blake Nelson
2015	Ant-Man	Darren Cross / Yellowjacket	Peyton Reed
2015	Black Mass	Fred Wyshak	Scott Cooper
2016	Caf Society	Ben	Woody Allen
2016	The Seagull	Boris Trigorin	Michael Mayer	Post-production
2016	Gold	Brian Wolff	Stephen Gaghan	Post-production

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2004	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Sex Shop Clerk	Episode: "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?"
2004	Charmed	Demon	Episode: "Witchness Protection"
2004	NYPD Blue	Martin Schweiss	Episode: "The Dead Donald"
2005	Alias	Sasha Korjev	Episode: "The Road Home"
2005	Numb3rs	Agent Reacher	Episode: "Sacrifice"
2005	ER	Teddy Marsh	Episode: "Caon City"
2005	CSI: Miami	Craig Seaborn	Episode: "Three-Way"
2006	Law & Order	Gerald Ruane	Episode: "Heart of Darkness"
2006	Without a Trace	Steve Goodman	Episode: "Candy"
2006	The Unit	Intel Type (Bobby Cullen)	Episode: "Old Home Week"
2006	Standoff	Dr. Wayne	Episode: "Life Support"
2006	The Nine	Alex Kent	2 episodes
2006	A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story	Joey Marino	Television film
2006-2007	NCIS	Martin Quinn	3 episodes
2009	Life on Mars	Det. Ventura/Russell	Episode: "Home Is Where You Hang Your Holster"
2009	The Unusuals	Lewis Powell	Episode: "The Circle Line"
2009	The Good Wife	Collin Grant	Episode: "Stripped"
2010-2011	Law & Order: LA	Det. Tomas "TJ" Jaruszalski	22 episodes
2012	Christine	Max	2 episodes
2013, 2016	House of Cards	Rep. Peter Russo	12 episodes Nominated"?Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated"?Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated"?Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2014	The Normal Heart	John Bruno	Television film
2014-present	The Strain	Dr. Ephraim Goodweather	26 episodes
2014	American Dad!	Vincent Edmonds (voice)	Episode: "Blagsnarst, a Love Story"
2014	Homeland	Sandy Bachman	Episode: "The Drone Queen"
2016	Girls	Dill Harcourt	4 episodes