David Corenswet

Did you know?!

1. A role that slipped away

   Corenswet was cast as the lead in The Tap, a Rob Reiner television series set at Yale in 1969, but USA Network ordered the pilot and then declined to pick up the series.

2. 

   Big break

   Corenswet told an interviewer in November 2019 that playing Superman was his "pie-in-the-sky ambition." James Gunn, the director, cast him as the title superhero in the DC Studios film Superman in June 2023.

3. Behind the camera

   Corenswet played Jack Castello in Hollywood, a 2020 Netflix limited series set in Los Angeles after World War II that looked at the film business. He was an executive producer on the series too.

4. First role

   Corenswet worked as a child actor in many professional theater productions. These included the Arden Theatre's 2002 staging of Arthur Miller's All My Sons and the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival's 2003 Macbeth.

5. Early training

   Corenswet studied at the University of Pennsylvania for a year, then moved to the Juilliard School, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama there in 2016.

6. Behind the camera

   Corenswet co-wrote, produced and starred in Moe & Jerryweather, a sketch-comedy web series that ran for two seasons from 2014 to 2016, alongside Adam Langdon, a fellow Juilliard graduate.