Biography

Geoffrey Cantor is best known as Mitchell Ellison in both Marvel's Daredevil and The Punisher on Netflix. Other TV work includes FBI, Zero Day, the role of Frank in the Netflix series Maniac, AppleTV's Foundation, Zip Betourney on The Resident, The Deuce, Blue Bloods, The Tick, Bull, Madam Secretary, House of Cards, The Blacklist, The Americans, Person of Interest, Damages, Smash, The Big C, Sopranos, Bored to Death, and all of the Law & Order's.

Films include the Coen Brothers' Hail, Ceasar!, Phyllis Nagy's Call Jane, Creepbox, The Dinner Plan, Hans, Black Jack: The Jackie Ryan Story, Hot Air, MIB3, Bird People, Thanks for Sharing, The Longest Week, Man on a Ledge, Fair Game, Michael Mann's Public Enemies, When in Rome, The Notorious Betty Page, One Last Thing, and the short film 411 with F. Murray Abraham.

Stage work Includes The Lehman Trilogy, Creditors (Minetta Lane), My Parsifal Conductor (Directors Company), Side Man (Broadway), Warren Leight's Sec 310, Row D, Seats 5&6, Dinner With Friends, Julie Taymor's Titus Andronicus, Saturday Sunday Monday, Denial (Long Wharf), Death of a Salesman (with Judd Hirsh), Talley's Folly, Romeo and Juliet (Acting Company), and Lone Star (London and Edinburgh).

He has also been involved with a number of Web-series, including The Onion, Candice Bushnell's The Broadroom, Good Medicine, The Stay-at-Home Dad, and the title role of Karl Manhair in Karl Manhair, Postal Inspector. Geoffrey also has a number of audio-books and video games to his credit, and has appeared in/been heard on over 200 commercials.

In London, Geoffrey worked on LWT's The Night Network both on camera and as a writer. He founded the prestigious play-reading series Readings At One in London's West End where he directed the London premier reading of Allan Knee's The Man Who was Peter Pan, upon which the film Finding Neverland was based. He can also be heard on a number of audio-books, including the award-winning Motherless Brooklyn (Jonathan Lethem) and The Family (David Laskin), video games, and commercials. As a director, his credits include the multi-award-winning short film EnSuite, the documentary Talking OutLOUD: Teens & Suicide Loss, A Conversation (Best of the Fest at the NYC Chain Film Festival), the critically acclaimed New York City debut production of October 7 at the Actors Temple Theater (a play he helped craft from testimonies of survivors from the NOVA festival and the Gaza envelope) and the semi-immersive NewYork.Circa.1909. which he both co-wrote and directed at the Soho Playhouse. Geoffrey graduated with honors from Amherst college, attended NTI at the O'Neill, and went on to train at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

Geoffrey is also a coach and teacher, and has worked all over the country with actors whose credits include all the major TV shows in New York, film and Broadway. His students have also been accepted to some of the best theater programs in the country, including Ithaca, Fordham, Emerson, Michigan, Mason Gross, and UCSD.

- IMDb mini biography by: Geoffrey Cantor