Noah Harpster

Noah Harpster, an American actor, writer, producer and director, grew up in Salinas, California and studied acting at the University of California, Santa Barbara, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1998. He is known for playing Remy on Tig Notaro's One Mississippi and for his work on Transparent, which won him a Peabody Award and nominations for an Emmy, a Writers Guild Award, a Golden Globe and a GLAAD Award. With Micah Fitzerman-Blue, he wrote the screenplay for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), a film about Fred Rogers that reached the Black List in 2013 and was later shot with Harpster in a small role alongside Tom Hanks, Chris Cooper and Matthew Rhys. The pair also co-wrote Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and formed the production company Blue Harp in 2017. Harpster has appeared as NASA Mission Controller Bill Strausser on For All Mankind, and he co-created the Netflix limited series Painkiller, released in 2023.