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Corey Daniel Stoll (born March 14, 1976) is an American actor.

Stoll is best known for his role as U.S. Representative Peter Russo in the first season of the American television drama series House of Cards, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination in 2013. He was a regular cast member on the NBC drama series Law & Order: LA (2010â€"2011) and currently stars in the FX horror series The Strain. Other notable roles include a 2004 Off-Broadway performance of Intimate Apparel and portraying Ernest Hemingway in the 2011 romantic comedy film Midnight in Paris.

Early life

Stoll was born on the Upper West Side of New York City, New York. He was raised Jewish. He studied drama at Long Lake Camp for the Arts from 1988 through 1992. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1998, and from New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts in 2003.

Career

In 2004, Stoll received a Drama Desk Award nomination as Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for Intimate Apparel, opposite Tony winner and Oscar nominee 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 "TJ" 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 was 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. Stoll will play Darren Cross, reimagined as the supervillain Yellowjacket, in the 2015 superhero film Ant-Man.