Billy Magnussen

Billy Magnussen is an American actor best known for starring in ‘Into the Woods’ and ‘The Great Gilly Hopkins.’ Born and brought up in New York, he hails from a Lithuanian lineage and born to a professional athlete father. Billy himself was highly inclined towards athletics while he was growing up, but he decided to go with acting and graduated from North Carolina School of Arts. Starting his career with Broadways, he made his first on-screen appearance with the 2008 short film ‘The Elephant Garden’ and made his fully fledged feature film debut in the next year with the film ‘Happy Tears.’ From there on, he went on starring in several films such as ‘Twelve,’ ‘Into the Woods,’ ‘Damsels in Distress’ and ‘Surviving.’ His TV stints include supporting roles in the series’ ‘The Divide,’ ‘The People vs O.J. Simpson: A Crime Story,’ ‘Get Shorty’ and ‘The Beautiful Life: TBL.’ However late, but his biggest career breakthrough did come in 2017 when he was signed on to play a major character in upcoming Disney’s live action rendition of their classic tale of ‘Aladdin.’ He will be playing a brand new character of Prince Anders in the film.