Morgan Spector

Spector was born in Santa Rosa, in Northern California, and grew up in nearby Guerneville. His father was an attorney and his mother worked in public education as a teacher and then as an administrator. He acted for the first time in community theater at the age of eight; and later acted in high school and college productions. After graduating from Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, he enrolled in the acting school of the American Conservatory Theater, in San Francisco, and then pursued work in regional theater, including a tour in The Lion King. He moved to New York City in 2006. Spector is Jewish on his father's side. His paternal grandmother was an actress in the New York Yiddish Theatre District.
In 2010 Spector made his Broadway debut as Rodolpho in Gregory Mosher's revival of Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge – a role he was unexpectedly called upon to play (having origin…