My Take
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.
Overview
Max Giorgio Choa Minghella (born 16 September 1985) is a British actor and director. He is known for his roles in the films Syriana (2005), The Social Network (2010), The Ides of March (2011), Spiral (2021) and Babylon (2022) as well as his role as Nick Blaine in the television series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025), which earned him a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.
1. Profile
- 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 40)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Ox
- Origin
- Hampstead, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- stage actor / film actor / film director / screenwriter / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Columbia University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.