Matt McGorry

Matt McGorry is an American actor raised in Manhattan, where he began performing at age nine. After attending Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, he graduated from Emerson College in 2008. He first worked as a personal trainer, competitive bodybuilder, and fitness writer for Men's Journal. On television, his debut came in 2011 on the ABC soap One Life to Live, followed by guest roles on Person of Interest, Gossip Girl, and Royal Pains. He gained wider notice as corrections officer John Bennett on the Netflix dramedy Orange Is the New Black, a recurring part he held from 2013 to 2015. In 2014 he joined the ABC legal thriller How to Get Away with Murder as Asher Millstone, playing the character for 90 episodes until 2020. That same year he was cast in the independent drama How He Fell in Love. In 2022 he starred as Mark Higgins for eight episodes of Archive 81.