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Corey Stoll

Acting

Born March 14, 1976 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Also known as Corey Daniel Stoll

Biography

Corey Daniel Stoll (born March 14, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Congressman Peter Russo on the Netflix political thriller series House of Cards (2013–2016), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination in 2013, and Dr. Ephraim Goodweather on the FX horror drama series The Strain (2014–2017). From 2020 to 2023, he portrayed Michael Prince, a business rival to protagonist Bobby Axelrod, in the Showtime series Billions. He was also a regular cast member on the NBC drama series Law & Order: LA (2010–2011). Stoll played Darren Cross/Yellowjacket/M.O.D.O.K. in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Ant-Man (2015) and its sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). For his portrayal of Ernest Hemingway in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011), he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. His other notable films include Black Mass (2015), First Man (2018), The Seagull (2018), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), and West Side Story (2021). He acted off-Broadway in Intimate Apparel (2004) and on Broadway in Appropriate (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Corey Stoll, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Awards & recognition

  • Satellite AwardBest Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film · 2013 · nominated
  • Independent Spirit AwardBest Supporting Male · 2012 · nominated
  • Drama Desk AwardOutstanding Featured Actor in a Play · 2004 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

Talking Sopranos

2020as Self

Charmed

1998as Demon

Pantheon

2022as Jake (voice)

House of Cards

2013as Peter Russo

Billions

2016as Mike Prince

ER

1994as Teddy Marsh

The Normal Heart

2014as John Bruno

CSI: Miami

2002as Craig Seaborn

Twilight of the Gods

2024as Hrafnkel (voice)

Ratched

2020as Charles Wainwright

The Deuce

2017as Hank Jaffe

Homeland

2011as Sandy Bachman

The Good Wife

2009as Collin Grant

NCIS

2003as Martin Quinn

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000as Sex Shop Clerk

The Eugenics Crusade

2018as Narrator

The Strain

2014as Dr. Ephraim Goodweather

The Good Lie

2014as Jack

Midnight in Paris

2011as Ernest Hemingway

The Unusuals

2009

Lucky Number Slevin

2006as Saul

Marvel Studios: Legends

2021as Darren Cross / Yellowjacket (archive footage) (uncredited)

George W. Bush

2020as Self

The Unit

2006as Bobby Carrol

Without a Trace

2002as Steve Goodman

Law & Order

1990as Gerald Ruane

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Three

2024as Lex Luthor (voice)

Bill Russell: Legend

2023as Self - Narrator (voice)

North Country

2005as Ricky Sennett

Ant-Man

2015as Darren Cross / Yellowjacket

NYPD Blue

1993

The Report

2019as Cyrus Clifford

First Man

2018as Buzz Aldrin

Quest for the Stanley Cup

2016as Narrator

American Dad!

2005as Vincent Edmonds (voice)

Numb3rs

2005as Agent Reacher

The Better Sister

2025as Adam Macintosh

West Side Story

2021as Lieutenant Schrank

Non-Stop

2014as Austin Reilly

Law & Order: LA

2010as TJ Jaruszalski

Alias

2001as Sasha Korjev

Gold

2016as Brian Woolf

This Is Where I Leave You

2014as Paul Altman

American Experience

1988as Narrator (voice)

Black Mass

2015as Fred Wyshak

Transatlantic

2023as Graham Patterson

The Romanoffs

2018as Michael Romanoff

Café Society

2016as Ben Dorfman

Salt

2010as Shnaider

Life on Mars

2008as Russell / Detective Ventura