David Corenswet is an American actor, who is famously known for playing the role of River Barkley on the 2019 Netflix series The Politician. He has also acted in various other projects as well, which includes movies like Controversy (2017) and Affairs of State (2018). Likewise, his television credits include shows/series like Moe & Jerryweather (2014-2016), Elementary (2017), The Tap (2017), and House of Cards (2018).
Now, for his upcoming projects, David is working on a movie Project Pay Day and a TV series Hollywood.
Wiki: Birthday & Height
David Corenswet possesses a tall height of 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 meters).
Hailing from the United States, he was born on the 8th of July 1993. He studied at The Shipley School and the University of Pennsylvania. Later, he made it to the prestigious The Juilliard School in New York, where he studied from 2012 to 2016 and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, having majored in drama.
Family
David Corenswet is a son to a homemaker mother and a stage actor father. He and his parents are from Philadelphia, and all of them still reside there.
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While growing up, David bloomed love for acting from his father, who had also made him love the physical comedies of the Marx Brothers. Sadly, he lost his father in June 2019.
His Relationship Status
David Corenswet maintains great privacy regarding his personal life due to which it is unknown whether he is already married or relishing a single life currently.
Onscreen Role As Gay
David Corenswet portrays the on-screen gay role, River Barkley, in the series The Politician in 2019. River is a happy-go-lucky person from a wealthy household in Santa Barbara, California. But deep inside, he is dealing with his emptiness.
A still from the 2019's David Corenswet starer The Politician (Photo: Fandom)
Additionally, he maintains relationships with a girl named Astrid Sloan and also with the series’s lead character Payton Hobart, a wealthy Santa Barbarian boy.
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Furthermore, the story of the series revolves around Payton, who moves around a different political race every season. The first season of the series premiered on Netflix on 27 September 2019.
Five Interesting Facts About David Corenswet
- He has appeared playing brief roles in big television shows such as in CBS’ Instinct.
- He made his professional acting debut with a short film named Following Chase in 2011. The short movie was written by himself along with Crossbow Studio.
- He is very fluent in speaking the French language.
- His favorite color is black while he prefers pizza and fries as his favorite food.
- He learned the Mandarin language for a scene in the series The Politician.
