Cory Michael Smith

Cory Michael Smith is one of those actors I trust to disappear into wildly different worlds. I'll always associate him with the Riddler on Gotham, where he made a slow descent into villainy genuinely unsettling rather than cartoonish. But what I respect more is the range around it — the Todd Haynes collaborations like Carol, Wonderstruck, and May December, plus stage work on Broadway opposite Emilia Clarke in Breakfast at Tiffany's. That's an Ohio kid out of Otterbein University quietly building a serious, theater-rooted resume. To me he's a character actor's character actor: never coasting on a single signature role, always chasing the harder, stranger choice.

Name (English)

Cory Michael Smith

Name (Japanese)

コーリー・マイケル・スミス

Reading

こーりー・まいける・すみす

Born

November 14, 1986 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

Origin

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Occupation

film actor / stage actor / television actor / actor

High school

Hilliard Darby High School

University

Otterbein University

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Tags

• Ohio
• film actor
• stage actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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