Russell Harvard

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Russell Wayne Harvard (born April 16, 1981) is an American actor.

In Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), he appeared opposite Daniel Day-Lewis as his adopted grown son, H.W. Plainview, or a summary.

Matt Hamill, a deaf NCAA championship wrestler and a UFC mixed martial arts champion, appeared in the 2010 film The Hammer.

In Tribes, by Nina Raine, Harvard won acclaim Off Broadway in 2012 as Billy, the deaf son of an intellectual, yet dysfunctional family.

He received a 2012 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance and nominations for Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor for his role.

In the first and third seasons of Fargo's television series Fargo, Mr. Wrench appeared.

Early life and education

Harvard is the younger of two deaf sons of Kay (Youngblood) and Henry Harvard, born in Pasadena, Texas, into a third-generation deaf family. Both his parents and his paternal grandmother are also deaf. The Harvards immigrated to Austin, Texas, so Renny's elder son Renny could enroll in the Texas School for the Deaf, which was their alma mater, in the early 1980s. (TSD). Russell was initially enrolled in an oral college for children who learn to lip read exclusively, due to his speech skills and residual hearing. Realizing he was ill at home, his parents enrolled him in TSD's deaf school education, which also included instruction in lip reading and speech therapy in English. Despite being able to hear some sounds with the use of a hearing aid, including speech and music, Deaf, identifies himself Deaf and considers American Sign Language to be his first language.

Harvard began his undergraduate studies at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., where he went on a hiatus during his college years to work as a tutor's assistant for preschoolers at the Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Anchorage, Alaska. (His mother joined him later, while working with the American Red Cross.) He considered a career as a theater coach, but as Artist in Residence in 2008, he returned as a teacher. He had a strong GPA and completed his bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts at Gallaudet, graduating in 2008.

He is openly gay.

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Career

During the deaf audition for the film There Will Be Blood, one of his students encouraged Harvard to forward a photo and resume to casting agents looking for a deaf actor. He was given an audition and was selected to participate in H.W., for which he had to research and perform a classic version of American Sign Language for the father-son confrontation scene with Day-Lewis.

Harvard made his first television appearance in CBS's "Silent Night" episode, opposite Marlee Matlin, and later appeared in "The Box" episode (2010) of the Fox series Fringe, just short of completing his scenes for There Will Be Blood. Switched at Birth and Odd Mom Out are two other TV shows. He has appeared in the short films Signage (2007), Words (2010), and This Is Normal (2013), and was one of Tim's principal roles in the independent film Claustrophobia (2011) and Gerald's leading roles in the ASL Films Versa Effect and Gerald. The Screen Actors Guild and the Actors' Equity Association both have a Harvard student.

For The Hammer, Jay Hamill was first cast as Matt Hamill's roommate, but when the original choice to play Matt, the film's producer and cowriter, actor Eben Kostbar, cinched the part out of concern for the Deaf community's wish to see an authentically Deaf actor in the role, Eben Kostbar was portrayed. Kostbar appeared in the film as Coach Cantrell, although the role of Jay was played by Deaf actor Michael Anthony Spady. The Hammer received Audience Awards at numerous film festivals, including AFI FEST, the Cleveland International Film Festival, the Florida Film Festival, the Heartland Film Festival, the Miami Film Festival, and the Newport Beach Film Festival.

In August 2013, the FX/MGM production team of Fargo, the 1996 Coen brothers' anthology TV miniseries, cast Harvard as Mr. Wrench, one of two hitmen seeking Billy Bob Thornton's lead character Lorne Malvo throughout the series's first season.

Noah Hawley, a part-time Austin resident who lives near the Texas School for the Deaf, used his own neighborhood words with sign language to inspire his "Mr. Wrench" design: a deaf assassination threat to his victims and private communication with his partner Mr. The numbers are (played by Adam Goldberg). Catherine MacKinnon, the show's ASL manager, worked closely with Goldberg on converting the pair's conversations into the most effective ASL exchanges for their scenes during a five-month shoot in Calgary, Alberta, Harvard, and Calgary, Alberta, where she was shot closely with him.

The overwhelming reaction to Harvard and Goldberg's seriocomic turn as bickering recruited killers was overwhelmingly positive. Mr. Jeremy O'Brien said they "steal scenes as Mr." "Mr. Wrench" (Time) is one of the "satisfying subplots" (HuffPost) and "have their own original energy" (Vulture.com). . .. And in the midst of a program that is otherwise consciously rearranging familiar pieces of the film and other crime stories, Harvard feels like no other criminal twosome of its kind I've ever seen before. "Encapsulating everything that is joyously odd about Fargo, the killers are the deadly—and deaf—Mr. Mr. Wrench (Russell Harvard) and his partner and translator, Mr. Sullivan, were involved in the war (Russell Harvard). (Adam Goldberg) - Numbers (Adam Goldberg). I already want a separate series that revolves around Mr. Wrench and Mr. Numbers are in the thousands. Hawley, the series's creator, who has referred to Harvard as "magnetic and charismatic" in the role of Mr. Wrench, has the character's appearance in the series. At the Critics' Choice Television Awards ceremony on June 19, 2014, the Broadcast Television Journalists Association presented Fargo with three awards (including Best Mini-series) and a certificate. Fargo received three Emmy Awards, most notably Outstanding Miniseries, on August 25, 2014; Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television at the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards; and, for "most importantly reimagining a beloved story and expanding and richly portraying a grimly realistic world of crime, revenge, and comeuppance," was honoured with the 2014 Peabody Award, which named Fargo as having set "a new standard in the process of adaptation."

In Season 3 of the series, Harvard will reprise his role as Mr. Wrench.

Harvard cites his uncle's appearance on stage in The Wizard of Oz at age eight as the inspiration for his becoming an actor. He became very active in TSD's theater department. He appeared in a 2006 stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire and as Claudio in their co-production with Much Ado About Nothing at Gallaudet. In the world premiere of Rachel Sheinkin and GrooveLily's Sleeping Beauty Wakes for Deaf West Theatre, his first professional stage appearance was in the twin roles of the Orderly and the Groundskeeper's Son. "Harvard joins the rank of deaf actors beyond any apparent limitations due to a lack of speaking lines, effortlessly conveying the essence of the newly created characters." He continued to play (also for Deaf West) Aesop Who in Aesop Aesop. He assistant directed the youth-audience performance Nobody's Perfect in 2007.

After an extensive North American hunt for an authentically deaf actor who could meet the demands of both signing and speaking in dialogue with hearing actors throughout the production, Harvard won the central role of Billy for the New York premiere of the British comedy-drama Tribes. He was known for over 400 performances Off Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre, where Tribes set all box-office records at the Barrow Street Theatre. "Russell Harvard, himself deaf, transforms into a brilliant display of public discourse in a moving transition that shifts from sweetness to sadness, and even anger, according to critics (Brian Scott Lipton, TheaterMania.com). This is how John Lahr of The New Yorker rated this NY debut stage performance: Hence, he said so.

Harvard revived its role in the NY production's transfer to the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in spring 2013 and then the summer at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. L.A. Theatre Works unveiled an audio CD of Tribes starring Harvard and other original cast members on June 15, 2015.

Playbill.com reported the casting of Harvard for the revival of the Duncan Sheik-Steven Sater musical Spring Awakening on August 10, 2015. Both Harvard and co-star Marlee Matlin debuted in this transfer production, which opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on September 27, 2015.

In Shakespeare's King Lear, the Duke of Cornwall appeared in the Cort Theatre on Broadway on February 28, 2019, with Glenda Jackson in the title role. His presence on stage required an interpreter for the deaf as an onstage figure, deafening himself and repeating the majority of his lines to the others when he was suspended. In moments of intense emotion, he used his vocal skills to recite a few of his characters' lines; in his death scene, the interpreter emerges as the servant who opposes and fatally wounds him; the adversary is purely in sign language.

In Bartlett Sher's long-running production of Aaron Sorkin's To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway, from November 5, 2019 to March 11, 2020, Harvard played Link Deas and Boo Radley. On February 26, 2020, the corporation gave a special performance and free to 18,000 New York City public middle and high school students at Madison Square Garden. When Harvard returned with original cast members Jeff Daniels and Celia Keenan-Bolger, the city outbreak of COVID-19 in mid-March put the production into hiatus until reopening on October 5, 2021. The plant officially closed on January 16, 2022, according to the historian.

In a unique coproduction between Deaf West Theatre and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Harvard performed the principal role of "Rocco" in Beethoven's opera Fidelio from April 14-26, 2022. He joined the role in tandem with bass-baritone Ryan Green's singing, led by conductor Gustavo Dudamel. In a Deaf West Theatre production with the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, CA, he starred in Jenny Koons' critically acclaimed production of Oedipus in September. "As portrayed by the brave, sensitive, and fiery actor Russell Harvard, righteous and alert, Oedipus knows he is the right choice to save Thebes." . . "Harvard portrays a tragic king and undisputed hero with a touch of hypocrisy that he quickly unleashes on everyone." . The narrator of this story was a woman named Elena. "This seasoned performer's star power is impossible to deny," says the author. "It's a shame."

When not acting professionally, he teaches theater and directs plays at Texas School for the Deaf. Several high school musical performances, including Grease and The Wizard of Oz, have been staged by him.

In interviews, Harvard has discussed his lifelong love for music, which he performs both live at Deaf cultural festivals and in amateur films. He is very popular on YouTube, where he posts video clips of himself performing American sign language renditions of popular songs. His versatile interpretive styles range from rock, pop, and hip hop to dance-pop, alternative rock, and synthpop. Jesse Jones III, a founding member of the hip hop Deaf dance troupe HipZu Funk based in Austin, USA, is also a professor at Harvard University.

In a hearing entitled "Innovation and Inclusion: The Americans with Disabilities Act at 20," which focused on the issues raised by the Equal Access to Communications in the 21st Century Act, Harvard testified as a panel witness before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet on May 26, 2010. He argued that the National Association of the Deaf and the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT) must pass new legislation on the Internet to mandate closed captioning on video programming on the Internet, as it had for television broadcasting in 1990: he argued that Congress should pass new legislation to mandate closed captioning on video content on the internet.

Any modern computers, regardless of screen size, should have caption capability and simple activation controls, according to Heard. "We now find ourselves in the Internet video games, missing everything else" because so few programming firms now have Internet captioning. He closed by urging Congress not to leave us behind as new Internet and digital video editing software advances became available to the general public."

Harvard has also been a vocal proponent of investigating how Deaf entertainment specialists could perform more effectively to produce stage and film. He sees more innovative uses of communication technology in the artistic process and in making it more available to Deaf audiences. "We need writers and casting directors to be more confident in dealing with actors who happen to be deaf."

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