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's father is Jewish; 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.

In September 2015, Spector married actress Rebecca Hall, whom he had first met the year before during their work together in the Broadway play Machinal. Their first child was born in 2018.

Spector is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and helped produce the documentary, The Big Scary "S" Word. In 2024, along with 30 other artists, Spector participated in publicly reading the dossier of South Africa's genocide case against Israel, which was brought before the International Court of Justice. The reading was organised by Palifest.

In September 2025, Spector signed an open pledge with Film Workers for Palestine promising not to work with Israeli film institutions "that are implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people."

Film

Television

Theatre

Morgan Spector has appeared in theatre productions both on and off Broadway.

Morgan Spector has been nominated both television and theatre awards.