Max Minghella

Max Minghella is one of those guys who could have coasted purely on the family name — his father Anthony Minghella directed The English Patient and won the Oscar for it — but he very clearly had zero interest in that easy road. Growing up in Hampstead, studying at Columbia, then carving out a genuine screen presence in Syriana, The Social Network, and The Ides of March showed real range even before The Handmaid's Tale turned him into a prestige-TV fixture. His Nick Blaine is quietly one of the more complex characters in that show, and an Emmy nomination confirms I'm not just imagining it. The fact that he's also stepped behind the camera as a director tells you this is someone who thinks about storytelling from the inside out — which, honestly, makes complete sense given who raised him.

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Name (English)

Max Minghella

Name (Japanese)

マックス・ミンゲラ

Reading

まっくす・みんげら

Born

September 16, 1985 (age 41)

Origin

Hampstead, United Kingdom

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / film director / screenwriter / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

University

Columbia University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Minghella
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B2%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360426

Tags

• stage actor
• film actor
• film director

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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