Brian J. Smith

Brian J. Smith, born in Dallas in 1981, is an American actor who grew up in Allen, Texas. He studied at Collin County Community College's Quad C Theatre program and later at Juilliard, graduating in 2007. Early screen work included the independent film Hate Crime (2005) and The War Boys (2009). On Broadway he appeared in Come Back, Little Sheba in 2008 and The Columnist in 2012. He gained wider attention as Lieutenant Matthew Scott in Stargate Universe from 2009 to 2010. Other television roles followed, including Gossip Girl and the SyFy film Red Faction: Origins (2011). He earned Tony and Drama Desk nominations for his role in The Glass Menagerie, which ran from 2013 to 2014. From 2015 to 2018 he starred as Will Gorski in Sense8, and later appeared in The Matrix Resurrections (2021). He directed the documentary A House Is Not a Disco, which premiered at SXSW in 2024.