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

Rob Nagle
Nagle on set at the LA Times Building, downtown Los Angeles, in February 2023
Born
Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
Other namesRobert P. Nagle
Occupations
  • actor
  • director
  • teacher
  • acting coach
Years active1992–present
Websiterobnagle.com

Early life and education

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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

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Nagle is an actor who works in film, television, commercials, and theatre. He is known for his performances in 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 theatres 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

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2025 Alien Vacation Sally's Husband
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

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Year Title Role Notes
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

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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

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  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.
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