Reed Birney
Reed Birney (born September 11, 1954) is an American actor. Birney is known for his performances on stage and screen often acting on and off Broadway. Birney gained acclaim in 2016 for his role in The Humans winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He was also nominated previously in the same category for his performance in Casa Valentina in 2014.
He starred in the films Mass (2021), and The Menu (2022). He is also known for his recurring roles in Gossip Girl (2007–2009), House of Cards (2013–2017), The Blacklist (2014–2015), and Home Before Dark (2021–2022). He has also acted in The Americans, The Handmaid's Tale, and Succession.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2209 |
| Birthday | 1954-09-11 |
| Place of Birth | Alexandria, Virginia, USA |
| Also Known As |
1985
Crimewave
5.54/164
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and...
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Crimewave
1998
A Perfect Murder
6.55/1550
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful pl...
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A Perfect Murder
1981
The Greatest Man in the World
7/2
This version of James Thurber's tale tells the story of a young amateur pilot who beats Charles Lindbergh's feat of nonstop flying around the world--w...
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The Greatest Man in the World
2003
Uptown Girls
6.934/1113
Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny to Ray - the preco...
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Uptown Girls
2011
Twelve Thirty
5.1/10
TWELVE THIRTY is drama about a family with adult children that is broken, and a self-centered young man who, in the span of a week, becomes entangled...
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Twelve Thirty
2021
Someone Will Assist You Shortly
0/0
SOMEONE WILL ASSIST YOU SHORTLY explores a hospice nurse's panic and isolation as he cares for his abusive and cognitively impaired father.
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Someone Will Assist You Shortly
2016
Dinner with Jeffrey
0/0
Oliver has just come out of the closet and is struggling with the feeling that he has to change who he is to fit in with other gays, when his gay uncl...
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Dinner with Jeffrey
2014
Adult World
6.1/388
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship...
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Adult World
1985
Chain Letters
5.545/11
Nine Manhattanites receive a chain letter. Depending on their decision to either pass the letter on or to break the chain, the various characters can...
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Chain Letters
2012
Girl Most Likely
5.6/268
A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.
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Girl Most Likely
2016
Occupy, Texas
5.7/3
After years away from home, and receiving news of his parents’ deaths, a disillusioned Occupier is forced from his tent in Zuccotti Park to upper midd...
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Occupy, Texas
2023
Baby Ruby
5.2/103
After welcoming her baby, Ruby, home, the tightly scripted world of lifestyle influencer Jo starts to unravel. As increasingly sinister happenings mou...
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Baby Ruby
2022
Stomach People
0/0
When Julia returns home for her grandmother's funeral, she has a nervous breakdown and vomits up the imaginary friends that have been living inside he...
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Stomach People
1997
You Are Here
9/1
After getting laid-off, a businessman accepts his boss' offer of a week at his gorgeous country estate. On a whim, the businessman asks a casual acqua...
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You Are Here
2014
In Your Eyes
7.132/729
Two seemingly unconnected souls from different corners of the United States make a telepathic bond that allows them to see, hear and feel the other's...
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In Your Eyes
1979
Too Far to Go
3.5/4
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For...
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Too Far to Go
2024
Asynchronous
0/0
A cancer-stricken professor becomes dangerously obsessed with the town's mayor.
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Asynchronous
2007
The Ten
4.8/211
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
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The Ten
2008
Changeling
7.579/4464
Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mothe...
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Changeling
2019
On Our Way
0/0
A film about fathers and sons, and the expectations they put on themselves and each other.
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On Our Way
2024
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
7.5/10
Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning 15 years before, during, and followi...
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
2023
Couple A Cards
2/1
Coffee, Bagels, and lost love: Two grumpy, old men confront their lifelong rivalry and reminisce of the woman who broke both their hearts.
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Couple A Cards
2015
Jackrabbit
4.5/22
Following a worldwide event known as The Reset, humanity rebuilds a society with aging mechanics where gleaming technology once stood. Surveillance no...
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Jackrabbit
1976
Not a Pretty Picture
7.75/6
Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.
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Not a Pretty Picture
2017
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
6.39/109
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
1997
Karen Black Like Me
3.2/5
David Briggs' Karen Black Like Me is a weirdly funny homage to the 70s cult classic Trilogy of Terror.
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Karen Black Like Me
2016
Shy Guys
0/0
Two strangers bravely confront and resolve one of the most terrifying and perplexing scourges to ever afflict mankind… all while standing at neighbori...
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Shy Guys
2010
Morning Glory
6.367/1623
A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently fa...
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Morning Glory
1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
9/1
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by t...
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
2019
The Last
4.5/2
The survivors of four generations of a Jewish family are rocked to their core when the family's 92-year-old matriarch makes a stunning confession
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The Last
2019
The Lost Weekend
0/0
After a rough breakup, Charlie Monahan dives headfirst into the world of online dating. Guided by his charismatic best friend, Rufus, Charlie meets th...
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The Lost Weekend
2020
The Hunt
6.637/3605
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruth...
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The Hunt
2019
w4m
4.5/2
Marley places a Craigslist ad, which is answered by Peter, for a rendezvous with an older man. But when he shows up, things don't quite go as planned....
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w4m
1999
The Trey Billings Show
4/4
A late-night cable access show goes to hell!
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The Trey Billings Show
2020
The Forty-Year-Old Version
6.7/115
Desperate for a breakthrough as she nears the big 4-0, struggling New York City playwright Radha finds inspiration by reinventing herself as a rapper.
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The Forty-Year-Old Version
2020
Lost Girls
6.052/755
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen...
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Lost Girls
2021
All the Little Things We Kill
4/1
A college professor takes her students hostage to force the passage of a bill that bans semi-automatic weapons.
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All the Little Things We Kill
1981
Four Friends
6.789/38
A young immigrant comes to America in the 60s and is caught up in the counterculture movement which tests his bonds of friendship and love.
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Four Friends
2016
Half the Perfect World
0/0
When solid and steadfast hat maker Lily (Heather Lind) is seduced by her boyfriend's cousin Daniel (Ryan O'Nan), her seemingly perfect world is turned...
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Half the Perfect World
2021
Strawberry Mansion
6.744/86
In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mil...
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Strawberry Mansion
2021
Mass
7.36/293
Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.
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Mass
1987
Means and Ends
7/1
The makers of a sexploitation film deceive the officials of a small Illinois town into believing they are making a wholesome comedy.
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Means and Ends
2015
Mad Women
3.7/6
A mother of three daughters (one died at the age of three) commits a crime of conscience and becomes radicalized in prison; she turns into an idealist...
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Mad Women
2022
The Menu
7.172/6120
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
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The Menu
2025
If You See Something
0/0
In the bliss of their new love, Ali and Katie start to build their life together in New York City, he as an Iraqi immigrant seeking political asylum a...
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If You See Something
2024
Death Wish
0/0
After losing his grandfather and job to COVID-19, an enraged deliveryman decides to do the only logical thing: hunt down and kill every plague spreade...
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Death Wish
2026
Blue Film
0/0
Drawn by the promise of easy money and anonymous sex, queer camboy Aaron Eagle is shocked to discover a personal connection with the mysterious strang...
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Blue Film
2025
Apostasy Blues
0/0
After a cult leader “raptures” alone with his followers’ donation money, two cult members reenter the secular world to embark on a manhunt for their s...
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Apostasy Blues
Outrage
0/0
After decades of provoking the nation, a controversial political pundit is kidnapped after a night on the town and must decipher which of his enemies...
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Outrage
2025
Standby
0/0
Jerry, a quiet and dispirited middle-aged gay actor, works as a standby for the hit off-Broadway show, "The Con Artiste!" Facing financial woes, lonel...
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Standby
The Steel Harp
0/0
Hanna, a cantankerous nonagenarian, patrols the Golden Gate Bridge every day and intervenes when people get too close to the edge. On what was to be H...
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