John Magaro

John Magaro

Born: February 16, 1983
in Akron, Ohio, U.S.
John Robert Magaro (born February 16, 1983) is an American actor. He starred in the films Not Fade Away and First Cow. He also had supporting roles in Unbroken, The Big Short, Carol, Overlord and the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black and The Umbrella Academy. He made his Broadway debut as Earl Williams, the escaped convict, in the hit revival of The Front Page in 2016.

Movies for John Magaro...

The Bride!
Title: The Bride!
Released: October 3, 2025
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, Frankenstein’s monster travels to Chicago to seek the aid of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention of the police and a wild and radical social movement.
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September 5
Title: September 5
Released: September 19, 2024
Type: Movie
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LaRoy, Texas
Title: LaRoy, Texas
Character: Ray
Released: April 12, 2024
Type: Movie
A man named Ray discovers his wife is cheating on him and decides to kill himself. Before he can pull the trigger, he is mistaken for a low-rent hired killer. Desperate for a little respect, and with nothing else to live for, Ray decides to take the job — and soon begins to question whether he made the right choice.
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Under the Boardwalk
Title: Under the Boardwalk
Character: Manny (voice)
Released: October 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Two crabs embark on an epic journey to get home after a storm sweeps them away. Their courage soon unites their families, paving the way for great summers to come.
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Day of the Fight
Title: Day of the Fight
Released: September 5, 2023
Type: Movie
On the day of his first fight since his release from prison, a once-renowned boxer embarks on a redemptive journey through his past and present.
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The Mistress
Title: The Mistress
Character: Parker
Released: July 28, 2023
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Parker and Madeline move into their dream home. As they settle in, they discover a box of old love letters written to the original owner. And as the couple digs into the increasingly obsessive correspondence, a mysterious woman arrives with a horrifying secret that threatens their lives.
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Past Lives
Title: Past Lives
Character: Arthur
Released: June 2, 2023
Type: Movie
Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
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Big George Foreman
Title: Big George Foreman
Character: Desmond
Released: April 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to the ring and makes history by reclaiming his title, becoming the oldest and most improbable World Heavyweight Boxing Champion ever.
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Call Jane
Title: Call Jane
Character: Detective Chilmark
Released: October 27, 2022
Type: Movie
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
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Showing Up
Title: Showing Up
Character: Sean
Released: October 5, 2022
Type: Movie
In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.
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18½
Title: 18½
Character: Paul
Released: May 27, 2022
Type: Movie
In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½-minute gap in Nixon's tapes.
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Title: Super Pumped
Character: John Zimmer
Released: February 27, 2022
Type: TV
Each season of this anthology series explores a story that rocked the business world to its core and changed culture. The first season tells the story of Uber, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and most destructive unicorns.
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The Many Saints of Newark
Title: The Many Saints of Newark
Character: Silvio Dante
Released: September 22, 2021
Type: Movie
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, whose influence over his nephew will help shape the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss, Tony Soprano.
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Lansky
Title: Lansky
Character: Young Meyer Lansky
Released: June 24, 2021
Type: Movie
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.
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The Birthday Cake
Title: The Birthday Cake
Character: Cousin Joey
Released: June 18, 2021
Type: Movie
On the 10th anniversary of his father's death, Giovanni reluctantly accepts the task of bringing a cake to the home of his uncle, a mob boss, for a celebration. Just two hours into the night, Gio's life is forever changed.
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First Cow: A Place in This World
Title: First Cow: A Place in This World
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 2020
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes of the creation of Kelly Reichardt's First Cow (2019).
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Sylvie's Love
Title: Sylvie's Love
Character: Sid
Released: January 27, 2020
Type: Movie
When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.
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First Cow
Title: First Cow
Character: Cookie
Released: August 30, 2019
Type: Movie
In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow – the first, and only, in the territory.
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Title: The Umbrella Academy
Character: Leonard Peabody
Released: February 15, 2019
Type: TV
A dysfunctional family of superheroes comes together to solve the mystery of their father's death, the threat of the apocalypse and more.
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Overlord
Title: Overlord
Character: Private First Class Lyle Tibbet
Released: November 1, 2018
Type: Movie
France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.
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Title: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Character: Victor Polizzi
Released: August 30, 2018
Type: TV
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.
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Marshall
Title: Marshall
Character: Irwin Friedman
Released: October 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
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War Machine
Title: War Machine
Character: Cory Staggart
Released: May 26, 2017
Type: Movie
A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley McChrystal.
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Title: Crisis in Six Scenes
Character: Alan Brockman
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: TV
A comedy that takes place in the 1960s during turbulent times in the United States when a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.
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Don't Worry Baby
Title: Don't Worry Baby
Character: Robert Lang
Released: July 22, 2016
Type: Movie
A father and son unknowingly sleep with the same woman, then four years later compete over the paternity of a child either of them could be the father of.
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The Finest Hours
Title: The Finest Hours
Character: Ervin Maske
Released: January 27, 2016
Type: Movie
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
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Title: Angie Tribeca
Character: Snick
Released: January 17, 2016
Type: TV
Lone-wolf detective Angie Tribeca and a squad of committed LAPD detectives investigate the most serious cases, from the murder of a ventriloquist to a rash of baker suicides.
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The Big Short
Title: The Big Short
Character: Charlie Geller
Released: December 11, 2015
Type: Movie
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
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Carol
Title: Carol
Character: Dannie McElroy
Released: November 20, 2015
Type: Movie
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
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Unbroken
Title: Unbroken
Character: Frank A. Tinker
Released: December 25, 2014
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
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Title: Orange Is the New Black
Character: Vince Muccio
Released: July 11, 2013
Type: TV
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
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Deep Powder
Title: Deep Powder
Character: Cota
Released: April 19, 2013
Type: Movie
When a teen from the wrong side of the tracks falls in love with a wealthy girl at the local boarding school, he agrees to help her smuggle drugs from Ecuador for the benefit of her upper crust friends. But when the plan unravels and he becomes the fall guy for their crimes, he is forced to decide how far he will go for the girl he loves.
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Not Fade Away
Title: Not Fade Away
Character: Douglas Damiano
Released: December 21, 2012
Type: Movie
Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.
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Liberal Arts
Title: Liberal Arts
Character: Dean
Released: September 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back. When his favorite college professor invites him to campus to speak at his retirement dinner, Jesse jumps at the chance. He is prepared for the nostalgia of the dining halls and dorm rooms, the parties and poetry seminars; what he doesn’t see coming is Zibby – a beautiful, precocious, classical-music-loving sophomore. Zibby awakens scary, exciting, long-dormant feelings of possibility and connection that Jesse thought he had buried forever.
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Title: Person of Interest
Character: Carl Elias (Age 22)
Released: September 22, 2011
Type: TV
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 
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Title: Body of Proof
Character: Chuck Foster
Released: March 29, 2011
Type: TV
Dr. Megan Hunt was in a class of her own, a brilliant neurosurgeon at the top of her game. But her world is turned upside down when a devastating car accident puts an end to her time in the operating room. Megan resumes her career as a medical examiner, determined to solve the puzzle of who or what killed the victims.
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Down the Shore
Title: Down the Shore
Character: Martin
Released: January 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Set on the Jersey shore, the lives of three childhood friends begin to unravel when a secret from their past is revealed
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My Soul to Take
Title: My Soul to Take
Character: Alex
Released: October 8, 2010
Type: Movie
On the day the Riverton Ripper vanished without a trace, seven children were born. Today, they're all turning 16... and turning up dead.
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The Box
Title: The Box
Character: Charles
Released: October 29, 2009
Type: Movie
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
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Taking Chance
Title: Taking Chance
Character: Rich Brewer
Released: September 21, 2009
Type: Movie
Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
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Assassination of a High School President
Title: Assassination of a High School President
Character: Cipriato
Released: January 17, 2008
Type: Movie
After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief. Bobby prints an article fingering Class President Paul Moore as the thief, shredding the youth's reputation. But as Bobby gets to know Paul's girlfriend, Francesca, he comes to realize he was wrong about Paul, so he sets out to unmask the true culprit.
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The Brave One
Title: The Brave One
Character: Ethan
Released: September 12, 2007
Type: Movie
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
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The Life Before Her Eyes
Title: The Life Before Her Eyes
Character: Michael Patrick
Released: September 8, 2007
Type: Movie
As the 15th anniversary of a fatal high school shooting approaches, former pupil Diana McFee is haunted by memories of the tragedy. After losing her best friend Maureen in the attack, Diana has been profoundly affected by the incident - her seemingly perfect life shaped by the events of that day.
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Bomb
Title: Bomb
Released: January 19, 2007
Type: Movie
What starts as an innocent flirtation between teenagers on the edge of an old bombing range turns askew when a trip home reveals a chaotic adult world that seeks to subvert their friendship.
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Title: Conviction
Character: Jiggy
Released: March 3, 2006
Type: TV
A fast-paced character-oriented story, focuses on the lives and loves of the young assistant district attorneys in New York, following their career paths as these passionate but naive ADAs are confronted with tough, emotional cases that challenge their limited experience – and force them to mature quickly or be overwhelmed.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Keith Musio
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Andrew Hingham
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Nathan Gersh
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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The Girl from Köln
Title: The Girl from Köln
Character: Keith Jarrett
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
17-year-old Vera Brandes books the Cologne Opera House at her own risk to bring Keith Jarrett to Cologne for a concert in January 1975.
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Omaha
Title: Omaha
Character: Dad
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After his wife's passing and being evicted, a brokenhearted father embarks on a road trip from California to Nebraska with his two children, Ella and Charlie. In search of healing, he and his kids find the help they weren't looking for.
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The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer
Title: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer
Character: Keane
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.