Olan Montgomery

Olan Montgomery was an American pop artist and actor. Born in Warner Robins, Georgia, and raised mostly in Macon, he left Columbia University to work as a make-up artist for New York modeling agencies and fashion magazines including Glamour and Cosmopolitan. Active in New York art circles, he became known as a photographer and painter whose mixed-media portraits drew on celebrities and everyday subjects, and a 2008 book of his portraiture, POP, was reviewed by the Village Voice columnist Michael Musto. He began studying acting late in the first decade of the 2000s, starting with a 2011 appearance on Boardwalk Empire, and went on to supporting roles in television series including The Blacklist and Stranger Things and in films such as Appropriate Behavior and The Irishman. His final large-screen role came in The Roads Not Taken (2020), directed by Sally Potter. He also wrote and produced several short films of his own, and he died in 2020.