Max Jenkins

Max Jenkins is an American actor and writer. Born in New York City in 1985, he first appeared in 2013 in Olivia, a webisode of the HBO show High Maintenance, as a guest star with Heléne Yorke. BuzzFeed recognized the pair in a 2014 television comedy list, and Indiewire singled out Olivia as one of the program's best episodes. He went on to headline The Mysteries of Laura for NBC, playing Max Carnegie in the detective comedy drama, and the Los Angeles Times praised him when it debuted in 2014. On stage, he gave well-received performances in New York theater, including Unnatural Acts at Classic Stage Company, which he helped write and which earned three Drama Desk Award nominations in 2012, one for outstanding play. In 2018 he was announced as part of the cast of Dead to Me, a Netflix dark comedy, and in 2022 he played Jeff in the off-Broadway premiere of Which Way to the Stage.