Ben Rappaport, a rising talent, has distinguished himself as a tremendous actor, highly sought after in film, television and theatre. In December, he filmed a guest star role in season 2 of CBS' Evil. In November, Rappaport shot an episode of the Amazon Original series Modern Love while wrapping his recurring role of Billy McFarland in Netflix's upcoming limited series Inventing Anna. He currently appears in HULU's anthology series Monsterland, while in the summer he was seen in NBC's Blindspot and CBS' God Friended Me, respectively. Prior to this, he starred in ABC's Shondaland series For the People for two seasons.
In December 2019, he reprised his role in USA's Mr. Robot while also commencing the role of Billy McFarland (Fyre Festival), opposite Emmy winner Julia Garner, in Inventing Anna, Netflix's upcoming limited series about the
Ben Rappaport, a rising talent, has distinguished himself as a tremendous actor, highly sought after in film, television and theatre. In December, he filmed a guest star role in season 2 of CBS' Evil. In November, Rappaport shot an episode of the Amazon Original series Modern Love while wrapping his recurring role of Billy McFarland in Netflix's upcoming limited series Inventing Anna. He currently appears in HULU's anthology series Monsterland, while in the summer he was seen in NBC's Blindspot and CBS' God Friended Me, respectively. Prior to this, he starred in ABC's Shondaland series For the People for two seasons.
In December 2019, he reprised his role in USA's Mr. Robot while also commencing the role of Billy McFarland (Fyre Festival), opposite Emmy winner Julia Garner, in Inventing Anna, Netflix's upcoming limited series about the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts and money of New York's social scene. He was seen as the male lead in the festival-circuit feature Ask for Jane (the story of the Jane Collective, a whisper network that provided safe abortions prior to Roe v. Wade) opposite Alison Wright, Sarah Steele and Sarah Ramos. In the spring, he was the lead of the world premiere of Matt Williams' Actually We're F**Ked at the Cherry Lane Theatre and prior to this, he was heard in a couple of episodes of Ken Burns' epic documentary series The Vietnam War. While starring in the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, he continued his recurring role on season 2 of USA's Peabody winning series Mr. Robot while also shooting a season-long arc on TV Land's critically acclaimed series Younger. Additionally, he filmed a series regular role in the Fox pilot Zoobiquity opposite Peter Facinelli, Marsha Thomason and Kim Raver and a recurring role in Netflix's Ozark opposite Jason Bateman and Laura Linney. In the summer of 2015, Rappaport was the executive producer and lead of Daniel Tenenbaum's highly anticipated film Landing Up. In the spring, he recurred on season 1 of USA's Golden Globe & Peabody winning series Mr. Robot.
Prior to this, he returned to CBS's The Good Wife for his 2nd season-long arc while simultaneously filming Benjamin Cox's film Better Off Single opposite Kal Penn, Aaron Tveit and Kelen Coleman. In the fall of 2013, he filmed the lead of USA Network's comedy pilot Love Is Dead while simultaneously filming his initial season-long arc on CBS' Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody recognized series, The Good Wife. In April of the same year, he was the lead of TBS' comedy pilot Do It Yourself that also starred Melora Hardin, Bill Engvall and Cheech Marin. Before this, he made his Broadway debut as Alan Seymour, one of the stars of William Inge's Pulitzer Prizewinning play Picnic helmed by Sam Gold. Sebastian Stan, Maggie Grace, Ellen Burstyn and Mare Winningham also starred in this critically acclaimed revival.
Rappaport had a dramatic turn in CBS' Elementary opposite Johnny Lee Miller while concurrently being seen in theaters opposite Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones in Mandate Pictures' Hope Springs. Additionally, he was one of the leads of Magnolia Pictures' 2012 Toronto Film Festival feature The Brass Teapot. In the spring of 2012, Rappaport landed the series lead of Adam Sztykiel's ABC comedy pilot Awesometown. Prior to that, he was seen as the lead of the Second Stage production of Sex Lives of Our Parents. Preceding that, he was the series lead of CBS' comedy pilot Worked Up, directed by Neil Patrick Harris.
Rappaport made his television debut as the series lead in NBC's 2010 comedy Outsourced, as Todd Dempsey, a young all-American guy who has been recently promoted to manager and has been reassigned to run the call center for Mid America Novelties in India.
He's also starred in the off-Broadway production of stage Farm at Rattlestick's The Gingerbread House. His additional theatre credits include Williamstown Theatre Festival's Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Paradise Now. Rappaport has also worked with Red Bull Theater, Ars Nova, Naked Angels, The Actors Studio and New Dramatists.
Rappaport is a graduate of The Juilliard School's Drama Division, where he received the Drama Division's highest honor: The Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize.
Rappaport currently resides in New York.