Russell Wayne Harvard, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Storyteller

Born in 1981, Russell Wayne Harvard is an American actor who made his film debut in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), playing the grown adopted son of Daniel Day-Lewis. In 2010 Harvard depicted deaf NCAA championship wrestler and UFC mixed martial arts fighter Matt Hamill, in The Hammer. In 2012 Off Broadway hit Tribes, Harvard won several awards for his depiction of Billy, the deaf son in an intellectual, though dysfunctional, hearing British family. Harvard has also performed on several tv shows such as Fargo as Mr. Wrench, CSI: N.Y., Fringe, Switched at Birth, and Odd Mom Out.

Born in Pasadena, Texas, into a third-generation deaf family, Harvard graduated from Texas School for the Deaf in 1999. After, Harvard studied at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts.