Gus Halper

Gus Halper is an American actor. Born in Manhattan, he trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he played Romeo in a 2014 production of Romeo and Juliet before graduating that year. His early screen credits include the ABC television film The Kingmakers and Goat (2016), and he played Mischa Bachinski in an off-Broadway staging of the musical Ride the Cyclone. On television he portrayed Erik Menendez in Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders in 2017, then appeared in Happy!, Dickinson, Ramy, Evil and Fear the Walking Dead. His film work includes Holler (2020), and he played Teddy Silas in Law & Order: Organized Crime from 2022 to 2023 and activist Tom Kahn in the biographical film Rustin (2023). He also originated the role of Brendan Lalor in the workshop and off-Broadway run of the musical Sing Street.