Rob Nagle

Rob Nagle
Nagle on set at the LA Times Building, downtown Los Angeles, in February 2023
Born	Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
Other names	Robert P. Nagle
Occupations	actor director teacher acting coach
Years active	1992–present
Website	robnagle.com

Rob Nagle is an American actor, director, teacher, and acting coach. He is a member of the faculty at the Theatre of Arts Hollywood Acting School, ^[1] the Art of Acting Studio, ^[2] and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. ^[3]

Early life and education

Nagle was born in Eugene, Oregon, then raised in DeKalb, Illinois, ^[4] and in Williamsburg, Virginia. He graduated from Lafayette High School in Williamsburg in 1988, and from Northwestern University in 1992, ^[5] with a double-major in theatre and philosophy. He has been married since October 7, 1995, to Heather Allyn, ^[6] who works as a casting director in reality television and has been nominated for multiple Emmy and Artios awards.

Career

Nagle is an actor who works in film, television, commercials, and theatre. He is known for his performances in Good American Family , Suits LA, Good Trouble , NCIS: Los Angeles , Batwoman, Dynasty, Safety, To Hell and Gone , Superior Donuts, Bad Samaritan, The Librarians, Fishing Naked, Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds , New Year’s Eve, Mad Men , Eli Stone , Cold Case , Everwood , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , The Guardian, and Dawson’s Creek.

Nagle has also worked in theaters across the country, including Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Fountain Theatre, Troubadour Theater Company, ^[7] Boston Court Pasadena, ^[8] Pasadena Playhouse, Antaeus Theatre Company, ^[9] LA Theatre Works, ^[10] New World Stages, ^[11] South Coast Repertory, ^[12] Skylight Theatre Company, ^[13] Open Fist Theatre Company, ^[14] Portland Center Stage, ^[15] Mark Taper Forum, ^[16] Baltimore Center Stage, San Jose Repertory, ^[17] Old Globe Theatre, ^[18] Shakespeare Theatre Company, ^[19] Goodman Theatre, and Bailiwick Repertory. ^[20]

In 2018, Rob won Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his Featured Performance in The Little Foxes at Antaeus Theatre Company. ^[21] In 2019, Rob won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and the Stage Raw Theater Award for his Leading Performance in The Judas Kiss at Boston Court Pasadena. ^{[22] [23]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2025	Alien Vacation	Sally's Husband
2025	The Wolf and the Lamb	Monsieur Jean LaGrange
2024	Missing Rhythms	Vince	short
2024	Sisters	George Pappas
2024	Paper Marriage	Andrew Keener
2024	Ownership	Appraiser Monroe	short
2023	Incarcerated	Stigall
2023	The Catastrophe	Gustav	short
2022	Earthworm	Dad	short
2022	Blonde	Radio Announcer
2022	Last Weekend	Tom	short
2021	Los Angeles	Bo
2021	60 Seconds	Sydney	short
2020	Paper Tiger	Gun Salesperson
2020	The Never List	Liz's Dad
2020	Kidnapped by a Classmate	Ken	TV movie
2020	The 11th Green	Hank
2019	I Want Candy	Todd Loris	short
2019	Wingmen	The King of Destin	short
2019	The Lemon Tree	Fred	short
2019	Signal to Noise	Roy	short
2019	Safety	Gym Teacher	short
2019	To Hell and Gone	Gary
2018	The Cat Burglar	Lloyd Duskin	animated short
2018	Confidence	Smoking Guy	short
2018	Urchin	Guard	short
2018	Dead Women Walking	Mark
2018	Bad Samaritan	Don Falco
2017	Boost	Lorenzo Champs
2016	Roadies	Mike
2016	Mother's Day	Hotel Bellman
2015	House of Stairs	Martin	short
2015	Straight Outta Compton	LAPD Westwood
2015	Fishing Naked	Charlie
2013	El Doctor	Andrew	short
2012	Technical Support	Supervisor	short
2012	The Pony Man	Security Guard	short
2011	8 Minutes	Winston	short
2011	New Year's Eve	Officer Nolan
2011	The Healer	Governor	short
2010	Life As We Know It	Neighbor Dad
2010	The Boy Who Became King	James	short
2010	A Soldier's Love Story	Coach Hanley	TV movie
2009	Shadow.net	FBI Agent #2	short
2009	The Soloist	Neil
2009	Caution Sign	Hal	short
2008	Day's Eye	Thomas	short
2005	Inside	Priest
2005	Fun with Dick and Jane	Concerned Businessman
2005	Wait Means Never	Money Man
2004	Cellular	Paramedic
2003	American Wedding	Floral Assistant
2001	How High	Agent
2000	Last Goodbye	Frank Scott	short
2000	An American Daughter	Director	TV movie
2000	A.P.E. #9	A.P.E. #9	short
1999	My Little Assassin	Minister	TV movie
1999	ATF	Billy Jones	TV movie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2025	Leviathan	Count Volger	Voice
2025	Good American Family	Dr. Phil	episodes: "If You Tell a Story Well Enough" / "Blood on Her Hands"
2025	Suits LA	Greg Litvak	pilot episode: "Seven Days a Week and Twice on Sunday"
2023-2024	Good Trouble	Jack Hauss	episodes: "Once a Cheater" / "Tell Me Sweet Little Lies" / "Hanging by a Moment" / “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” / “What Now?”
2018-2022	NCIS: Los Angeles	Albert Barrington	episodes: "The Body Stitchers" / "The Monster"
2022	First Love	Cooper Sullivan	main cast
2021	Batwoman	Professor Pyg	episode: "A Lesson from Professor Pyg"
2021	Mom	MC	episode: "A Community Hero and a Wide Turn"
2021	Corona Town	Jim
2020	Little Fires Everywhere	Bruce	episode: "The Spark"
2019-2020	Dynasty	Mitchell	episodes: "The Caviar, I Trust, Is Not Burned" / "The Sensational Blake Carrington Trial" / "Caution Never Won a War"
2019	Dealbreakers	Michael	episode: "To Pay or Not to Pay"
2019	NCIS: New Orleans	Malcolm Armand	episode: "Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom"
2018	Superior Donuts	Agent Kozek	episode: "The ICEmen Cometh"
2018	Modern Family	Bill	episode: "He Said, She Shed"
2016	The Librarians	Barry	episode: "And the Rise of Chaos"
2016	Dirty Talk	Mr. Douglas	episodes: "Playing It Cool" / "What Is Art?" / "It's Spatula Time" / "Pilot"
2015	Grey's Anatomy	Howard Bonaman	episode: "All I Could Do Was Cry"
2014	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Mark Turner	episodes: "The Twin Paradox" / "The CSI Effect"
2014	I Didn't Do It	Interrogator	episode: "In the Doghouse with the White House"
2013	Criminal Minds	Tory Chapman	episode: "Pay It Forward"
2013	Mistresses	Officer Lewis	episode: "Payback"
2013	Touch	Detective Latham	episode: "Perfect Storm"
2012	Before We Go to Sleep	Phil	main cast
2012	Castle	Kirby	episode: "Secret's Safe with Me"
2012	Major Crimes	Father James Healy	episode: "The Ecstasy and the Agony"
2012	After the Bee	Yevgeny
2012	NCIS	Wayne Usher	episode: "Playing with Fire"
2011	Harry's Law	Dr. Emmit Jones	episode: "American Girl"
2011	The Young and the Restless	Sergeant Burke	episode: #1.9698
2011	Life on the ENG	Newsroom Boss
2010	Mad Men	Agent Landingham	episode: "Hands and Knees"
2009	Lincoln Heights	Mr. Donlevy	episodes: "Lucky" / "Bully for You"
2008	Eli Stone	Jeffrey Powell	episodes: "Unwritten" / "Praying for Time" / "One More Try"
2008	The Middleman	Renfield Rehnquist	episode: "The Great Vampiric Puppet Lamentation"
2008	Cold Case	Bernie Murphy	episode: "Bad Reputation"
2006	Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip	Moderator	episode: "The Focus Group"
2005	Without a Trace	Coach Bud Gillman	episode: "4.0"
2003	Everwood	Joel Hurwitz	episode: "The Miracle of Everwood"
2002-2003	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Robson	episodes: "First Date" / "Bring on the Night" / "Never Leave Me" / "Sleeper"
2002	The Guardian	Hugh Williams	episode: "The Neighborhood"
2002	The West Wing	Chorus	episode: "Posse Comitatus"
2001	Dawson's Creek	Dr. Tom Frost	episodes: "Eastern Standard Time" / "Admissions" / "Mind Games" / "Four Stories"

Podcast Series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2024	The Taming of the Shrew	Grumio	episodes: "To Suck the Sweets of Sweet Philosophy" / "A Nightmare in a Gown" / "Sweet as Spring-Time Flowers" / "The Mad Brain'd Bridegroom" / "He Is More Shrew Than She" / "Be It Moon or Sun or What You Please" / "Strength is in Surrender"
2023	Kevin Spacey Trial: Unfiltered	Kevin Spacey	episodes: "The Limelight" / "The Apology" / "There Once Was a Mom From Nantucket" / "The Unusual Suspect"
2022	The Prophecy	Coast Guard, Bobby/Policeman, Doctor	episodes: "All Roads Lead To..." / "Truth Is..." / "Come Through the Sawmill" / "Daniel"
2022	Marvel's Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show	Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto)	episodes: "Unbeatable" / "Who Would Win In A Fight?" / "The Fate of My Universe"
2021	The Zip Code Plays: Los Angeles	Lamont	episode: "91601: North Hollywood - End of the Line"

References

1. "Rob Nagle, faculty member at Theatre of Arts". Theatre of Arts Hollywood Acting School.
2. "Rob Nagle". www.artofactingstudio.com | Art of Acting Studio. 2015-08-22. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
3. "AMDA - Faculty - Rob Nagle". www.amda.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
4. "CCT presents "Tom Sawyer"". The Daily Chronicle.
5. "Ever Good". Northwestern University.
6. "Weddings: Heather A. Kurtz, Robert P. Nagle". New York Times.
7. "CTG leads Ovation nominations". Baltimore Sun.
8. "Rob Nagle in The Judas Kiss". South Pasadena News. 14 March 2019.
9. "Rob Nagle, company member at Antaeus Theatre Company". Antaeus Theatre Company.
10. "Rob Nagle on Los Angeles Theatre Works". L.A. Theatre Works.
11. "Rob Nagle, Nadia Bowers, and the Cast of Church & State Begin Rehearsals". Playbill.
12. "Rob Nagle at South Coast Repertory". Playbill.
13. "Rob Nagle on the new play Church and State". skylighttheatre.org.
14. "Rob Nagle at the Open Fist Theatre Company". broadwayworld.com.
15. "Rob Nagle plays James Beard". Willamette Week. 16 January 2013.
16. "Rob Nagle at the Mark Taper Forum". Broadway World.
17. "Rob Nagle in CTRL+ALT+DEL". Playbill.
18. "Rob Nagle in Love's Labour's Lost". Playbill.
19. "Rob Nagle at Shakespeare Theatre". Shakespeare Theatre Company.
20. "Rob Nagle at Bailiwick Repertory". Chicago Reader. 31 March 1994.
21. "L.A. Drama Critics Circle awards: Antaeus and Celebration lead the way". Los Angeles Times. 9 April 2019.
22. "2019 Awards :: LA Drama Critics Circle". LA Drama Critics Circle. 28 May 2023.
23. "Fifth Annual Stage Raw Theater Awards Recipients". Stage Raw. 10 September 2019.

External links

• Rob Nagle at IMDb