Morgan Spector

Spector grew up in Guerneville, California. His father was an attorney and his mother worked in public education as a teacher and then as an administrator. Spector is Jewish on his father's side; his paternal grandmother was an actress in the New York Yiddish Theatre District. His mother is of mostly Irish Catholic descent.

Spector acted for the first time in community theater at the age of eight; and later acted in high school and college productions.

After graduating from Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, he enrolled in the acting school of the American Conservatory Theater, in San Francisco. He next pursued work in regional theater, including a tour in The Lion King. In 2006, he moved to New York City. In 2010, Spector made his Broadway debut as Rodolpho in Gregory Mosher's revival of Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge. He was originally cast in a bit part, but moved into the major role when the actor scheduled for it was injured during previews. In 2012 he played the role of Boris in The Russian Transport, by Erika Sheffer. It was produced Off-Broadway by The New Group.

In 2014, he co-starred with Rebecca Hall in a Broadway revival of Sophie Treadwell's Machinal. They later married; they appeared together on stage in New York again in June 2017, in Clare Lizzimore's play Animal. They have also appeared together on-screen in the 2016 drama Christine and the 2017 film Permission.

In 2018, Spector starred alongside Olivia Wilde in the drama A Vigilante. In 2019, he starred alongside Gina Torres in the legal drama Pearson on USA Network, a spin-off of Suits.

In 2020, he starred in the HBO miniseries adaptation of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, alongside Winona Ryder. In 2022, he also headlined alongside Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski in HBO's The Gilded Age.