Cody Fern

Cody Fern, an Australian actor and director, first considered a career in finance before moving into performing. Ellen Burstyn, Larry Moss and Susan Batson were among the acting coaches he trained with, and on stage he played Albert in War Horse for the National Theatre of Great Britain. He appeared in short films, among them The Last Time I Saw Richard (2014) and Still Take You Home (2010), and in 2014 he received the Heath Ledger Scholarship, which included a scholarship at Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theatre. His feature debut was The Tribes of Palos Verdes (2017), and he also wrote, directed and starred in the short Pisces. On television he played David Madson in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, earning a Gold Derby TV Award, then Duncan Shepherd in House of Cards and Michael Langdon in American Horror Story: Apocalypse. He later appeared in American Horror Story: 1984 and Father Stu (2022).