Billy Magnussen

Billy Magnussen is one of those actors who sneaks up on you — you keep spotting him in bigger and bigger films and thinking, wait, how does this guy keep landing these roles? Born in Queens and trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, he clearly put in the serious craft work before Hollywood came calling. His turn as the hilariously oblivious Prince Anders in Aladdin (2019) was genuinely scene-stealing, and Game Night (2018) showed he has real comedy chops. But what I find most interesting is that he's also a stage actor and songwriter — there's more going on under the golden-boy surface than the blockbuster résumé suggests. He hasn't had his full leading-man breakthrough yet as of 2024, but I get the feeling it's a matter of when, not if.

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Name (English)

Billy Magnussen

Name (Japanese)

ビリー・マグヌッセン

Reading

びりー・まぐぬっせん

Born

April 20, 1985 (age 41)

Origin

Queens, New York, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / stage actor / songwriter / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

High school

South Forsyth High School

University

University of North Carolina School of the Arts

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/billymagnussen/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Magnussen
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B0%E3%83%8C%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q794599

Tags

• New York
• television actor
• film actor
• stage actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.