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David Packard Corenswet (born July 8, 1993) is an American actor.[1] After graduating from the Juilliard School in 2016, he began guest starring in television series, including House of Cards in 2018. He then starred in the Netflix series The Politician (2019–2020) and Hollywood (2020), both created by Ryan Murphy,[2][3] the Netflix movie Look Both Ways (2022), the HBO miniseries We Own This City (2022), and the A24 movie Pearl (2022).

David Corenswet
Born	David Packard Corenswet (1993-07-08) July 8, 1993 (age 29) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	University of Pennsylvania Juilliard School (BFA)
Occupation	Actor screenwriter producer
Years active	2011–present

Early life and education

Corenswet was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[4] His father, John Corenswet,[5] was from a prominent Jewish family in New Orleans,[6] and worked as a stage actor in New York City for many years[4] before becoming a lawyer;[7] his mother is a lawyer who specializes in nonprofit organizational conflict resolution; his sister is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[8][9][10]

Corenswet's maternal grandfather is Edward Packard, creator of the Choose Your Own Adventure book concept and author of more than 50 books in the series.[11][12] His maternal grandmother was a prominent Quaker activist.[13]

Corenswet graduated from The Shipley School and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama in 2016 from the Juilliard School in New York City.[14][15][16] He applied and was accepted to Juilliard while a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania.[10]

Career

As a child actor, Corenswet appeared in numerous professional theater productions, including the Arden Theatre Company's 2002 production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons,[17] the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival's 2003 production of Macbeth,[18] the Walnut Street Theatre Company's 2003 production of La Vie En Bleu,[19][18] and the People's Light and Theatre Company's 2004 production of The Forgiving Harvest, among others.[20][21]

Corenswet wrote the screenplay for and acted in Following Chase (2011), directed by Greg Koorhan.[22] He next co-wrote, produced, and starred in a two-season sketch-comedy web series, Moe & Jerryweather (2014-2016).[23]

In 2016, director Rob Reiner cast Corenswet as a co-lead in his planned television series, The Tap, set at Yale College in 1969. Corenswet played a student.[24] USA Network ordered the pilot episode,[25] which was filmed in 2017, but declined to pick up the series.[26]

In Corenswet's first film role after graduating from Juilliard, he starred as Michael Lawson in Affairs of State (2018), a political thriller. The film also stars Thora Birch, Mimi Rogers, and Adrian Grenier. Los Angeles Times described the film as "well-acted".[27]

Corenswet then appeared in several guest-star roles, including in House of Cards, Elementary, and Instinct.[23]

In The Politician (2019–2020), he portrays River Barkley, the lover and high-school political rival of Payton Hobart (Ben Platt). Vanity Fair described River as a "wealthy, sporty, straight-A student".[28][29][30]

Corenswet stars as Jack Castello[31][32] in Hollywood (2020), a Netflix limited series about the post-World War II film business in Los Angeles. Corenswet is also an executive producer on the series.[33] He stars alongside Patti LuPone, Dylan McDermott, Darren Criss, and Holland Taylor.[34][35] Men's Health magazine praised Corenswet's performance as that of a "breakout lead".[36] IndieWire called it "another star-proving turn from David Corenswet."[37]

In We Own This City, a 2022 HBO limited series from The Wire’s writers and executive producers David Simon and George Pelecanos, Corenswet co-stars as the veteran police investigator David McDougall, whose work helps uncover years of corruption in the Gun Trace Task Force of the Baltimore police department.[38] [39] The series is based on actual events that unfolded in 2016.[40]

Corenswet co-stars as Jake in Look Both Ways, a 2022 Netflix original romantic comedy-drama film.[41] Directed by Wanuri Kahiu and written by April Prosser, it also stars Lili Reinhart, Luke Wilson, Andrea Savage, Danny Ramirez, and Aisha Dee.[42]

In “Pearl,” a 2022 psychological slasher film directed by Ti West, Corenswet co-stars as The Projectionist.[43][44]

Corenswet joins Natalie Portman, Moses Ingram, Mikey Madison, and Dylan Arnold in the upcoming Apple TV+ series “Lady in the Lake,” directed by Alma Har’el. The series has finished filming, and will debut in 2023.[45]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Following Chase	Ted	Short film; also writer
2013	Michael and Clyde	Clyde	Short film
2018	Affairs of State	Michael Lawson	Feature film
2019	Project Pay Day	Lifeguard
2022	Look Both Ways	Jake	Netflix
2022	Pearl	The Projectionist	Feature film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014–18	Moe & Jerryweather	Jerryweather	17 episodes; also producer
2015	One Bad Choice	Reggie Shaw	Episode: "Reggie Shaw"
2017	Elementary	Houston Spivey	Episode: "High Heat"
2018	Instinct	Spencer Baymoore	Episode: "Live"
2018	House of Cards	Reed	Episode: "Chapter 72"
2019–20	The Politician	River Barkley	11 episodes
2020	Hollywood	Jack Castello	7 episodes; also executive producer
2022	We Own This City	David McDougall

References

External links

• David Corenswet at IMDb

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[de] David Corenswet

David Corenswet (* 8. Juli 1993[1]) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler. Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem durch seine Mitwirkung in den Netflix-Serien The Politician (2019) und Hollywood (2020).

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[es] David Corenswet

David Packard Corenswet (Filadelfia, 8 de julio de 1993) es un actor estadounidense. Luego de graduarse de la escuela Juilliard en 2016, empezó a registrar participaciones en producciones para televisión, logrando reconocimiento en la serie House of Cards en 2018. En 2019 protagonizó el seriado The Politician[1] y un año después figuró en Hollywood (2020), ambas creadas por Ryan Murphy.[2][3]

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