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Gus Halper (born July 2, 1992) is an American actor best known for his roles in the series Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders (2017), Fear the Walking Dead (2021), and Law & Order: Organized Crime (2022–2023), and in the films Goat (2016) and Rustin (2023). He also appeared in the 2016 off-Broadway production of the musical Ride the Cyclone, playing Mischa Bachinski.
Halper was born on July 2, 1992 in Manhattan, New York City. His mother, Deann Simmons Halper, is an actress and theater director. Halper graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, which his mother had previously attended, in 2014.
In 2014, while studying at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Halper played Romeo in the university’s production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. After graduating, he starred in the ABC television film The Kingmakers as Eli, a young man who infiltrates an Ivy League university to investigate his sister’s death. The following year, Halper appeared alongside Nick Jonas and Ben Schnetzer in Goat, which was produced by James Franco. The same year, he portrayed Ukrainian teenager Mischa Bachinski…
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