Billy Magnussen Biography
Billy Magnussen is an American actor best known for Into the Woods (2014), Bridge of Spies (2015), Birth of the Dragon (2016), Game Night (2018), and Maniac (2018). He rose to fame after appearing in the American heist comedy film Lift (2024).
Billy Magnussen Career
Magnussen’s first show on Broadway was 2007’s “The Ritz,” which starred Rosie Perez. He was cast with David Hyde Pierce and Sigourney Weaver in Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike in 2012. The play opened at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, and then moved to Lincoln Center in New York City. Then it went to the John Golden Theatre, where six Tony Awards were up for grabs. He was up for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his part as Spike. A version of Sex with Strangers directed by David Schwimmer and starring him and Anna Gunn ran off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theater in 2014. The show got great reviews.
The movies Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet and Happy Tears, which stars Demi Moore and Parker Posey, both have Magnussen in them. Moreover, in the movie Twelve, which came out on July 30, 2010, he played Claude. In the 2011 movie The Lost Valentine, based on the book of the same name by James Michael Pratt, he played Neil Thomas, a hero in World War II. The movie aired on CBS on January 30, 2011. In the same year, he also played Thor in Wicked by Whit Stillman. He played the lead role in the indie film Surviving Family in 2012.
Magnussen got his big break when he played Rapunzel’s Prince in Rob Marshall’s 2014 movie Into the Woods. Magnussen played Ellis, the social worker in charge of Gilly Hopkins in The Great Gilly Hopkins, which starred Kathy Bates and Sophie Nélisse from Canada in 2016. In both the book and the play, the part was first written for a woman. In 2019, Magnussen played the brand-new part of Prince Anders in Guy Ritchie’s live-action version of Aladdin for Disney. Moreover, Magnussen plays CIA officer Logan Ash in the 25th James Bond movie, No Time to Die, from Eon Productions. Nevertheless, Ash tries to get a retired Bond to help with a task. He will play the lead part in the new movie Violent Ends, which stars Alexandra Shipp.
In the first season of American Crime Story, which was about the death of O.J. Simpson, Magnussen played Kato Kaelin. Moreover, he is famous for playing Casey Hughes on the CBS soap series As the World Turns, which he started on January 29, 2008. In 2009, he was a guest star on The CW’s The Beautiful Life: TBL. He played Roger McAlister, Gillian Darmody’s (Gretchen Mol) doomed boyfriend, on Boardwalk Empire as a guest star. He also played Jimmy Darmody’s (Michael Pitt) dead body.
For Law & Order, he was a guest star in the episode “Icarus” from the 10th season and in “Sweetie” from the 19th season. As a guest star, Magnussen was in four episodes of The Divide, episode 3 of season 2 of NCIS: Los Angeles (called “Borderline”), and episode 6 of The Leftovers’ first season. In addition, Magnussen played Russ Snyder on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as a guest star in 2017.
He also played Joshua “Nick” Sullivan, a high school teacher in Tell Me a Story whose first season came out in 2018 and has a friendship with one of his students. Magnussen used to play bass and make songs for the rock band The Dash, which was based in New York City. Moreover, he is in the band Reserved for Rondee in New York City and plays guitar in it.
Billy Magnussen Salary
Magnussen earns an annual salary of about $ 500,000 – $3 Million.
Billy Magnussen Net Worth
Magnussen has an estimated net worth of about $5 Million – $10 Million which he has earned throughout his career as an actor.
Billy Magnussen Age
Magnussen was born on April 20, 1985, in Woodhaven, New York, United States. He is 38 years old as of 2023 and he celebrates his birthday on the 20th of April every year.
Billy Magnussen Height and Weight
Magnussen stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches tall (1.80m) and weighs 75 kgs (165 lbs).
Billy Magnussen Family
Magnussen was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York City to Greg Magnussen (father), a professional bodybuilder and kickboxer, and Daina Magnussen (mother), an aerobics instructor. Moreover, he was raised alongside his two younger brothers; Jesse Magnussen and Dane Magnussen. His maternal grandparents came to the United States from Lithuania. He comes from both Norway and Lithuania. From the time he was 5 years old until he was 10, his family moved to Cumming, Georgia. In addition, he grew up in Queens near Woodhaven Boulevard.
Billy Magnussen Wife
Magnussen is currently single. However, he dated Meghann Fahy an actress. The two first met while on the set of the 2011 romantic drama “The Lost Valentine. They began dating in 2017 and later separated in 2020 due to unknown reasons.
Billy Magnussen Lift
Magnussen plays the role of Magnus in the American heist comedy film Lift. One of the international thieves in the world, Cyrus, is in charge of a heist team that includes Denton, pilot Camila, hacker Mi-Sun, safecracker Magnus, and engineer Luke. They commit two thefts at the same time: they steal a Van Gogh picture in London and stage a fake kidnapping of the famous NFT artist N8 in Venice.
Moreover, the group set up a theft to get N8. Cyrus says that famous paintings quickly become more valuable after being stolen, and he says that his group stole the Van Gogh painting and sold it on the black market for $20 million to get N8 NFTs. It was “kidnapped” and N8’s NFT’s worth grew to $89 million. However, N8’s offer of a share of the money makes him decide to celebrate with the team.
There is no way for the crew to steal the gold while the plane is in the air, they decide. To do this, they borrow a private jet from a wealthy art collector named Molsen. Camila will fly straight under the airliner, which will let Mi-Sun change the radar signals so it looks like the plane is still on course while the crew takes it to a private airfield. Cyrus tells Molsen that he will get N8 to make a special NFT art for him in exchange for letting him use his private jet. Once Magnus breaks the safe and Jorgenson’s goons are out of commission, the team will use the jet to get the gold.
When Jorgenson kills a spy in his company and moves up the delivery date, it makes their plans more difficult. The team is still on time, though. After successfully redirecting the plane, Jorgenson’s goons try to take it over, which causes it to crash land. Camila, Abby, Cyrus, and Magnus are caught. Magnus gets away on the ground, but the other three are caught and put on the jet carrying the gold, which is heading to Jorgenson’s farm in Tuscany.
Billy Magnussen Spy Kids: Armageddon
Magnussen plays the role of Ray “The King” Kingston in the spy action comedy film Spy Kids. Rey Kingston is a tech mogul and makes video games. While Spy Kids: Armageddon’s main bad guy isn’t playing games, he does use Hyskor, a popular new video game, to break into the Tango-Torrez family’s network and cause chaos around the world as part of his plan to take over the world.
Rodriguez called a tech giant a modern-day bad guy if he “thinks he can fix the world with his technology” and “knows what people need the most.” “He’s just stupid, like a lot of our enemies from past movies.” He is going about it the wrong way, and it is the children’s goodness and purity that help him see the light. The kids in Spy Kids books always do more than just beat the bad guys; they also change them by showing them a better way to do things.
Billy Magnussen Road House
Magnussen will be cast in the upcoming American action film Road House which is set to be released on March 21, 2024. A former welterweight fighter in the UFC gets a job at a roadhouse in the Florida Keys. However, things are not what they seem to be.
Billy Magnussen The Franchise
Magnussen will play the role of Adam in the upcoming comedy television series The Franchise. The date that the series will be released will be updated when available.
Billy Magnussen Movies and TV Shows
- The Offer
- Woke
- Made for Love
- Tell Me a Story
- Maniac
- The Bold Type
- Road House
- Lift
- Spy Kids: Armageddon
- Coup!
- No Time to Die
- The Many Saints of Newark
- The Survivor
Billy Magnussen Social Media Platforms
Magnussen is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook page and he has 12k followers on Twitter, 100k followers on Instagram, and 5k followers on Facebook.