Philip Ettinger

Philip Ettinger is an American actor who made his professional debut in 2008 on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, he studied film directing at Emerson College before turning to acting, training at the William Esper Studio and the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and spending a year studying at the Globe Theatre in London. He earned a Lucille Lortel Award nomination in 2014 for his featured work in Joshua Harmon's play Bad Jews. His breakthrough came as Michael, the troubled environmental activist, in Paul Schrader's First Reformed (2018). He went on to play the younger versions of Mark Ruffalo's twin brothers in the HBO series I Know This Much Is True, Garrett Drimmer in the series One Dollar, and the lead in The Evening Hour, and he appeared in Sebastián Silva's Tyrel (2018).