WYATT
RUSSELL

Wyatt Russell is an American actor and former professional ice hockey goaltender, born in Los Angeles on 10 July 1986. His screen career includes comedy, horror, television drama and superhero stories.

Before focusing on acting, Russell played professional hockey in Europe. After an injury ended that path, he returned to acting and began building a varied screen career, including a role in the comedy 22 Jump Street (2014).

In Lodge 49, he played Dud, a former surfer looking for direction who finds a place in a fraternal lodge. The series gave him a leading role grounded in uncertainty and connection rather than conventional heroism.

Russell also played Corporal Lewis Ford in the wartime horror film Overlord (2018). In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021), he introduced John Walker, a soldier given the Captain America mantle whose decisions complicate the image of a public hero.

He returned as Walker in Thunderbolts* (2025). Placing that conflicted figure beside the gentler Dud or the soldier in Overlord shows the range of tone in Russell’s roles, even when characters face pressure to prove themselves.