Matt McGorry

Matthew David McGorry (born April 12, 1986) is an American actor. He is best known for playing John Bennett in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black and Asher Millstone in the ABC legal thriller series How to Get Away with Murder.

Early life and education McGorry was born and raised in Manhattan, New York, and began performing at age nine. He attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in New York, and then graduated from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts in 2008.

Career Fitness McGorry began his career as a personal trainer, fitness writer for Men's Journal, and competitive bodybuilder.

Acting On television, McGorry made his debut in 2011 on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live. He later appeared in guest-starring roles on Person of Interest, Gossip Girl, and Royal Pains before breaking out in a recurring role from 2013 to 2015 on the Netflix dramedy series Orange Is the New Black as corrections officer John Bennett in 2013.

In 2014, McGorry was cast as series regular Asher Millstone on Shonda Rhimes' drama series How to Get Away with Murder, a role he played for 90 episodes up until 2020. In the same year, he was cast in the indie drama How He Fell in Love.

In 2022, McGorry starred as Mark Higgins for 8 episodes in Archive 81.

Personal life McGorry is heterosexual and polyamorous, but stated in a 2018 Man Talk roundtable that he had experimented with men when he was younger, adding, "like a lot of straight boys I experimented with other boys. But that is so common and no one talks about it [...] I don't think it was sexual, and I am straight, never found myself attracted to boys [...] I had so much shame about that, for years after, thinking 'I'm going to be famous one day, maybe, and someone's going to find and it's going to become this thing and it's going to destroy me."

McGorry is a police and prison abolitionist and a feminist and is interested in various social issues.

In 2024, McGorry revealed that he was diagnosed with long COVID.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 2006 Thursday Grey Malcolm Gizor & Gorm Gorm Short film 2008 Killian Duncan 2010 Public Access Vlado Afghan Hound Tom 2015 Ratter Michael How He Fell in Love Travis Loserville Coach Casey Harris Say My Name Dancer & Actor Music video (by Peking Duk) 2018 Step Sisters Dane 2020 Uncorked Harvard Death of a Telemarketer AndyAlso executive producer 2021 Good on Paper Brett

Television Year Title Role Notes 2011 One Life to Live Spider Man 3 episodes Person of Interest EMT No. 1 Episode: "Foe" 2012 Gossip Girl Personal Shopper Episode: "Crazy, Cupid, Love" Royal Pains EMT Episode: "You Give Love a Bad Name" 2013 Elementary Officer Sam Klecko Episode: "Details" 2013–15 Orange Is the New Black John Bennett 28 episodesScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series 2014–20 How to Get Away with Murder Asher Millstone Main cast; season 1-6, 86 episodes 2015 Public Morals Mr. Ford Episode: "A Fine Line" 2017 Lip Sync Battle Himself Episode: "Matt McGorry vs. Bellamy Young" 2022 Archive 81 Mark Higgins 8 episodes 2022 Big Shot Coach Blake Episode: "Moving On"