Alan Ruck
Alan Ruck is an acclaimed character actor with a versatile career spanning nearly four decades across television, film, and theater.
Alan is coming off four incredible seasons as a series regular on HBO’s Emmy and Peabody-winning phenom, Succession, one of the most acclaimed television series in modern history. His performance as Connor Roy, the eldest son of patriarch Logan Roy, is regularly cited as an exceptionally stealth performance among one of television’s best-ever ensembles, brilliantly nailing Connor’s tragicomic moments and his character’s deluded attempts at diverse topics such as love, his father’s approval, his siblings’ respect, and even the Presidency of the United States. In 2023, Alan received a career-first Emmy Nomination for his stellar work on the series and additionally won a SAG Award alongside his castmates.
He also recently co-starred in the critically-acclaimed Hulu limited series, The Dropout, in an especially memorable role opposite Amanda Seyfried’s Emmy-winning performance as Elizabeth Holmes, whose controversial medical start-up rocked the tech and medical communities. In the series, which chronicles Holmes’s charismatic rise and fall, Alan portrays Jay Rosan, a real-life Walgreens executive who unwittingly got caught in Holmes’s intricate web of lies.
Alan recently starred in the Amazon Studios drama The Burial alongside Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones, and Jurnee Smollett. The film is based on the New Yorker article by Jonathan Harr and follows a charismatic personal injury lawyer who decides to help a funeral homeowner save his family business from a predatory corporate behemoth. He also appeared in Netflix’s People We Meet On Vacation opposite Molly Shannon, and will also be seen in the independent features In Memoriam, alongside Marc Maron, Lily Gladstone, and Sharon Stone, and Hershey, opposite Finn Wittrock and Alexandra Daddario.
His screen breakthrough came in 1986 in John Hughes’s cult classic, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, in which Alan played the iconic ‘Cameron Frye’ opposite Matthew Broderick’s titular character. Ruck and Broderick will reunite in the upcoming feature film The Best Is Yet To Come, directed by Jon Turteltaub.
For television, Alan notably starred for six seasons on ABC’s Emmy-winning comedy series, Spin City, starring Michael J. Fox. The series followed Deputy Mayor of New York City and his team of half-wits as they attempted to save the mayor from embarrassment and the media. His additional television credits also include Mad About You opposite Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser; Justified starring Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins; David E. Kelley’s Picket Fences and Boston Legal; Scrubs from creator Bill Lawrence; Amy Sherman-Palladino’s Bunheads; Hot in Cleveland co-starring Betty White; The Exorcist opposite Geena Davis; Norman Lear’s One Day at a Time; Showtime’s Masters of Sex; Tom Hanks’s Emmy-winning HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon; and many more.
His filmography includes Twister starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt; Speed starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock; Michael Bay’s Bad Boys opposite Will Smith and Martin Lawrence; Star Trek Generations starring Patrick Stewart and William Shatner; Cheaper by the Dozen starring Steve Martin; My Dinner with Hervé starring Peter Dinklage; I Love You, Beth Cooper; beloved sequel Young Guns II; and more.
He is a trained stage actor who got his start in Chicago and made his Broadway debut in 1985 in Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues opposite Matthew Broderick. He also starred in Manhattan Theater Club’s Off-Broadway play Absurd Person Singular in 2005; and had a starring role in the First National Tour of Mel Brooks’s legendary hit musical comedy, The Producers.
Alan currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, the actress Mireille Enos, and their children.