page_title: Corey Stoll
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Corey Stoll / Career
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Présentation du film "Café society" au festival de Cannes. De gauche à droite&#160;: Corey Stoll, Blake Lively, Woody Allen, Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg, Pierre Lescure.
context_page_description: Corey Daniel Stoll is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Congressman Peter Russo on the Netflix political thriller series House of Cards, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination in 2013, and Dr. Ephraim Goodweather on the FX horror drama series The Strain. Since 2020, he has portrayed Michael Prince, a business rival to Bobby Axelrod, in the Showtime series Billions. He was also a regular cast member on the NBC drama series Law & Order: LA and portrayed Darren Cross / Yellowjacket in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Ant-Man. Other notable roles include an off-Broadway performance of Intimate Apparel, Ernest Hemingway in the romantic comedy film Midnight in Paris, bulldog prosecutor Fred Wyshak in Black Mass, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the biopic First Man.
context_section_description: In 2004, Stoll received a Drama Desk Award nomination as Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for Intimate Apparel, opposite Tony winner and Oscar winner Viola Davis. He went on to appear in several films, including North Country, Lucky Number Slevin, the television film A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Push. In 2010, he appeared in Helena from the Wedding and Salt.
  Stoll starred as LAPD Detective Tomas Jaruszalski on the NBC police drama Law & Order: LA. He played Ernest Hemingway in Woody Allen's 2011 film Midnight in Paris. Stoll, who is mostly bald, wore a custom wig for the role. In 2013, Stoll received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in the Netflix series House of Cards. After House of Cards, he joined the FX horror television series The Strain, which is based on a series of novels written by Chuck Hogan and film director Guillermo Del Toro.
  In 2014, Stoll also played Austin Reilly, an NYPD police officer, in the action film Non-Stop, and Paul Altman in the comedy-drama This Is Where I Leave You. In 2015, Stoll played Ben Day in the film Dark Places, based on the novel by Gillian Flynn, and had a major role as the villain in the superhero film Ant-Man, playing Darren Cross, later reimagined as the supervillain Yellowjacket. The following year, he reunited with Woody Allen, playing gangster Ben Dorfman in his 2016 film Café Society. Also in the summer of 2016, he played the wily Greek warrior Ulysses in the Public Theater production of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, in Central Park.
  In January 2019, it was announced that Stoll will star in the upcoming Netflix drama series Ratched. Since 2020, he has portrayed Michael Prince, a business rival to Bobby Axelrod, in the Showtime series Billions.
caption: Stoll (far left) with the cast and crew of Café Society at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
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