Actor / Actress
Actor / Actress
Russell Wayne Harvard (born April 16, 1981) is an American actor. He made his feature film debut in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), playing opposite Daniel Day-Lewis as his adopted son, H.W. Plainview.
In the 2010 biopic The Hammer, he portrayed deaf NCAA championship wrestler and UFC mixed martial arts fighter Matt Hamill. Harvard also won acclaim Off Broadway in 2012 as Billy, the deaf son in an intellectual, though dysfunctional, hearing British family, in Tribes by Nina Raine. For his interpretation, he won a 2012 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance and nominations for Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor.
He played Mr. Wrench in the first and third seasons of the television series Fargo.
Russell Harvard is known for work in acting across film and television. New Release currently presents 14 verified screen credits connected to this profile.
Selected work includes The Tuba Thieves (2024), Causeway (2022), Fargo (2014), Fringe (2008), Being Heumann (2026), Switched at Birth (2011), There Will Be Blood (2007), The Hammer (2010). The recorded credits span 2007 to 2026, including 11 movies and 3 TV shows.
The filmography below lists available titles, release years and known roles. This profile is updated as additional verified information becomes available.