Noah Harpster

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| name = Noah Harpster

| image = NoahHarpster.png

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| education = University of California, Santa Barbara (BFA)

| occupation = {{Hlist|Actor|Writer|Director|Producer}}

| known_for = {{ubl|A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood|Painkiller|Transparent|One Mississippi|For All Mankind}}

| awards = Humanitas Prize, PEN award, Peabody Award

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Noah Harpster is an American actor, writer, producer and director. He is best known for his role of Remy on Tig Notaro's One Mississippi, and writing, producing and acting on Transparent, for which he won a Peabody Award, and was nominated for an Emmy Award, Writers Guild Award, Golden Globe Award, and GLAAD Award.

Early life and education

Harpster grew up in Salinas, California.{{Cite news |last=Andre |first=Drew |date=November 22, 2019 |title=Fred Rogers biopic writer talks about growing up in Salinas |url=https://kion546.com/news/2019/11/22/fred-rogers-biopic-writer-talks-about-growing-up-in-salinas/ |publisher=KION-TV |access-date=March 25, 2024}} He attended Salinas High School, where he wasn't selected for the baseball team and took up acting before graduating in 1994.

He later attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting in 1998.{{Cite web |url=https://news.ucsb.edu/2020/019740/writing-mister-rogers |title=Writing Mister Rogers |last=Jacobs |first=Tom |date=January 2, 2020 |website=news.ucsb.edu |access-date=March 25, 2024}}

Career

He and his writing partner Micah Fitzerman-Blue wrote the script for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood about Fred Rogers which landed on the Black List in 2013.{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2013/12/2013-black-list-best-screenplays-full-list-653017/|title=Black List 2013: Full Screenplay List|last=Team|first=The Deadline|date=2013-12-17|work=Deadline|access-date=2018-08-08|language=en-US}} After a nearly 10-year process, it was released in 2019, starring Tom Hanks,{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/tom-hanks-mr-rogers-you-are-my-friend-tristar-1202676746/|title=Tom Hanks to Play Mr. Rogers in Biopic 'You Are My Friend' (EXCLUSIVE)|last=Kroll|first=Justin|date=2018-01-29|work=Variety|access-date=2018-08-08|language=en-US}} Chris Cooper, Matthew Rhys, and Harpster himself in a small role.{{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/matthew-rhys-star-tom-hanks-you-are-my-friend-1127347|title=Matthew Rhys to Star Opposite Tom Hanks' Mr. Rogers in 'You Are My Friend'|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=2018-08-08|language=en}} For their screenplay, Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster were nominated for also winners of the prestigious PEN Award and the Humanities Prize.

He and Fitzerman-Blue also co-wrote Maleficent: Mistress of Evil alongside Linda Woolverton.

In 2017, they opened their production company, Blue Harp.,{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2017/08/micah-fitzerman-blue-noah-harpster-amazon-studios-tv-blue-harp-beauiful-ruins-the-legend-of-master-legend-1202148575/|title=Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Sign First-Look Deal With Amazon Studios For TV|last=Ramos|first=Dino-Ray|date=2017-08-14|work=Deadline|access-date=2018-08-08|language=en-US}} and in 2018, he and Fitzerman-Blue were listed on Variety{{'}}s 10 Screenwriters to Watch.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}}

Since 2019 he has played NASA Mission Controller Bill Strausser in the Apple TV+ alternate history series For All Mankind, created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi.

In 2021, Harpster and Fitzerman-Blue created the limited series Painkiller for Netflix. Painkiller is a dramatization of the birth of the opioid crisis and stars Matthew Broderick, Uzo Aduba, Taylor Kitsch, Dina Shihabi, and West Duchovony. It is based on the reporting work done by Barry Meier for the New York Times and Patrick Radden Keefe for the New Yorker. Harpster also has an acting role in the limited series. It was released August 10, 2023.

Along with Fitzerman-Blue, he will be co-directing the film adaptation of Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button in 2024.

Filmography

class="wikitable sortable" \|+ ! rowspan="2" \| Year ! rowspan="2" \| Title ! colspan="3" \| Credited as ! rowspan="2" \| Notes
Writer ! Executive Producer ! Actor
2010 \| Takedowns and Falls \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \|
2012 \| The Motel Life \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| co-written with Micah Fitzerman-Blue
2013 \| Afternoon Delight \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2014–2019 \| Transparent \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| co-written with Micah Fitzerman-Blue
2015–2017 \| One Mississippi \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2017 \| Legend of Master Legend \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \| created and co-written with Micah Fitzerman-Blue
2019 \| A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| co-written with Micah Fitzerman-Blue
2019 \| Maleficent: Mistress of Evil \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| co-written with Micah Fitzerman-Blue
2019–present \| For All Mankind \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \| Recurring role
2020 \| Magic Camp \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| co-written with Micah Fitzerman-Blue
2023 \| Painkiller \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| created and co-written with Micah Fitzerman-Blue
2024 \| Bottomless Belly Button\| Bottomless Belly Button \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \| directed and co-written with Micah Fitzerman-Blue
2024 \| The USA vs. Vince McMahon \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \| co-written with Micah Fitzerman-Blue
2025 \| [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/dodgers-fernando-valenzuela-limited-series-1235406017/ Unt. Fernando Valenzuela series] \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \| co-written with Micah Fitzerman-Blue
2025 \| Bambi\| Bambi \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| co-written with Micah Fitzerman-Blue

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2010

| Takedowns and Falls

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}