Casting Networks: On the Verge
"Happy Anderson is a member in good standing of the “That Guy” club. You know that club, the one where you see an actor in a movie or TV show and you might know his name, but you know his face, and when you see him, you say, “Oh, I know that guy! I love that guy.” The High Falls, New York native has been a working actor for the last 16 years, but only recently has he become a full member of that esteemed group."
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The Bikeriders
New Regency
"Fists or knives?” Johnny asks, after one of his customary long pauses, on the rare occasions when someone throws down the gauntlet to challenge him. When, early in the film, a Vandal played by Happy Anderson, of Maggie Moore(s), does so, their ensuing fight is real and nasty but also played out within certain boundaries."
-Hollywood Reporter
-Hollywood Reporter
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Maggie Moore(s)
Endeavor Content, Screen Media
"Along for the ride is deaf hitman Kosco (Happy Anderson), who manages to exude hostility and threat of violence despite the lack of dialogue."
-Cultured Vultures
"...and an unmasked killer (Happy Anderson). The music is moody and Anderson, who goes by the name of Kosco in the film, stalks his victim like he took a page out of Michael Myers...While it is true that Maggie Moore(s) has a few laugh-out-loud moments — due in large part to Anderson’s portrayal of Kosco..."
-Spectrum Culture
"...casually cruel and deaf hitman Kosco (Happy Anderson, looking like John Goodman’s scarier cousin) intimidates Maggie. But the brutish Kosco isn’t about subtleties. Maggie Moore winds up dead in her car, her body burned nearly beyond recognition."
-Chicago Sun Times
"...Jay, who by Tommy’s urging hires Kosco (Happy Anderson), a hulking deaf ginger, to intimidate her out of calling the police. Kosco intimidates her a little too hard. Then he disposes of the evidence a little too hard. There are accelerants involved...or Kosco, frankly the best-realized character in the movie outside of Jordan himself and a villain in the Anton Chigurh vein."
-Paste
"Joining Stock in the villain ranks is Anderson as deaf hitman Kosco. His menacing glare and sparing use of a pen and paper make for some of Maggie Moore(s)' most fun gags."
-Mashable
That being said, there are some entertaining performances, particularly one of my favorites... Happy Anderson (Bird Box), a deaf contract killer who brings deft comic timing to a stoic role.
-InSession Film
"...he hires a deaf hitman (Happy Anderson, amusing in a role demanding a unique brand of comedic intimidation) to scare her."
-Flickering Myth
"...a sadistic deaf thug named Kosco (Happy Anderson, singularly scary). Jay’s intent is to intimidate his wife, Maggie (Louisa Krause), and convince her not to go to the police, as she’s promised to do after finding an envelope filled with child pornography. But things don’t proceed as planned, and Kosco takes things to the next level, leaving a corpse instead of a chastened Maggie."
-The Hollywood Reporter
"When bargaining with Maggie fails, Jay plots to have Maggie spooked away from the cop idea, hiring a thug named Kosco (Happy Anderson, more menacing than someone named Happy should rightly be) to do the deed."
-Original Cin
-Cultured Vultures
"...and an unmasked killer (Happy Anderson). The music is moody and Anderson, who goes by the name of Kosco in the film, stalks his victim like he took a page out of Michael Myers...While it is true that Maggie Moore(s) has a few laugh-out-loud moments — due in large part to Anderson’s portrayal of Kosco..."
-Spectrum Culture
"...casually cruel and deaf hitman Kosco (Happy Anderson, looking like John Goodman’s scarier cousin) intimidates Maggie. But the brutish Kosco isn’t about subtleties. Maggie Moore winds up dead in her car, her body burned nearly beyond recognition."
-Chicago Sun Times
"...Jay, who by Tommy’s urging hires Kosco (Happy Anderson), a hulking deaf ginger, to intimidate her out of calling the police. Kosco intimidates her a little too hard. Then he disposes of the evidence a little too hard. There are accelerants involved...or Kosco, frankly the best-realized character in the movie outside of Jordan himself and a villain in the Anton Chigurh vein."
-Paste
"Joining Stock in the villain ranks is Anderson as deaf hitman Kosco. His menacing glare and sparing use of a pen and paper make for some of Maggie Moore(s)' most fun gags."
-Mashable
That being said, there are some entertaining performances, particularly one of my favorites... Happy Anderson (Bird Box), a deaf contract killer who brings deft comic timing to a stoic role.
-InSession Film
"...he hires a deaf hitman (Happy Anderson, amusing in a role demanding a unique brand of comedic intimidation) to scare her."
-Flickering Myth
"...a sadistic deaf thug named Kosco (Happy Anderson, singularly scary). Jay’s intent is to intimidate his wife, Maggie (Louisa Krause), and convince her not to go to the police, as she’s promised to do after finding an envelope filled with child pornography. But things don’t proceed as planned, and Kosco takes things to the next level, leaving a corpse instead of a chastened Maggie."
-The Hollywood Reporter
"When bargaining with Maggie fails, Jay plots to have Maggie spooked away from the cop idea, hiring a thug named Kosco (Happy Anderson, more menacing than someone named Happy should rightly be) to do the deed."
-Original Cin
Full Circle
HBO Max
"The highlights of the cast are Claire Danes and Timothy Olyphant, who give extraordinary and nuanced performances in the leading roles. Supporting players Happy Anderson, Jharell Jerome, and CCH Pounder all get some exceptional moments."
-Disappointmentmedia.com
-Disappointmentmedia.com
The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
RLJE Films
"If anyone stands out, it's Anderson, who is no stranger to thriving under interrogation, having played serial killer Jerome Brudos on the first season of Mindhunter."
-Collider
"...and Happy Anderson (Mindhunter) has quickly become the quintessential, “Oh, you think you know me, do ya?” interrogation subject."
-NOFSPodcast
"The entire movie centers around this late night rendezvous where we meet the entire cast and crew, all exceptional performances by [et al.,] Happy Anderson."
-UAMC Review
"A genuine out-of-left-field gem, and the stealth find of this year’s [TIFF] Midnight Madness program...it boasts some strong work from its character-actor ensemble...and it turns an Agatha-Christie-mystery-as-scripted-by-David-Mamet set-up into a feature and not a bug. This one took us by surprise."
-Rolling Stone
-Collider
"...and Happy Anderson (Mindhunter) has quickly become the quintessential, “Oh, you think you know me, do ya?” interrogation subject."
-NOFSPodcast
"The entire movie centers around this late night rendezvous where we meet the entire cast and crew, all exceptional performances by [et al.,] Happy Anderson."
-UAMC Review
"A genuine out-of-left-field gem, and the stealth find of this year’s [TIFF] Midnight Madness program...it boasts some strong work from its character-actor ensemble...and it turns an Agatha-Christie-mystery-as-scripted-by-David-Mamet set-up into a feature and not a bug. This one took us by surprise."
-Rolling Stone
Mindhunter
Netflix
"Two killers became instant icons in Season 1 of “Mindhunter”:...the show-lusting necrophiliac Jerry Brudos...Anderson really brought out the crucial elements of the character: When Brudos and Ford are alone for the first time, viewers can see the killer consider how to respond when Ford first asks a hypothetical question. Anderson squints, looks down, and playfully feigns ignorance, turning Brudos into a knowing participant in Ford’s little play. His answers are so blunt, so telling, and so twisted, but Anderson never pretends to be disgusted. He readily engages with the conversation because Brudos — like Kemper — wants to talk about this stuff. He just needs an avenue to do so. Ford provides it, and Brudos relishes the opportunity."
-Indiewire
"But most jarring are the performances...Happy Anderson, who plays infamous serial killer Jerry Brudos...Anderson perfectly portrays the serial killer’s eerily charming personalities while also clearly displaying [his] insanity and mental instability. The cast makes you forget that you’re watching a show that’s based on actual events."
-Yale Herald
"Actor Happy Anderson portrays Brudos with a level of apathy that's palpable, almost sickening. He's a hedonist - a sexual deviant through and through, and seems to be in denial about his actions."
-Zimbio.com
-...a tremendously subdued and disquieting performance by Happy Anderson..."
-MovieWeb.com
"Happy Anderson was one of the Mindhunter actors tasked with portraying a real-life serial killer, and he made just as much of an impact as the psycho-sexually twisted necrophiliac Jerry Brudos. Without spoiling much, let's just say viewers will never look at a stiletto heel quite the same way."
-Looper.com
“Fincher said, 'The scene with Happy [Anderson] was 11 pages. We had three cameras outside the cage, and we’d do a nine-and-a-half-minute take. Then I’d walk in with a yellow pad [filled] with single-spaced notes: [to Groff] ‘OK, that’s a joke, you can’t toss that off. And this? This is a statement. Make sure that’s a statement.’ And Jonathan would be there going, ‘OK, OK.’ [nodding] Then we’d do another nine-minute take and he’d do all that stuff [I asked], and I’d go to Holt and go over four pages of notes with him. And Happy was like, ‘What? We’re really going to do this [every time]?’”
-Indiewire
"Played by Happy Anderson on the show, Jerry Brudos is a mysterious killer..."
-Refinery29
-Indiewire
"But most jarring are the performances...Happy Anderson, who plays infamous serial killer Jerry Brudos...Anderson perfectly portrays the serial killer’s eerily charming personalities while also clearly displaying [his] insanity and mental instability. The cast makes you forget that you’re watching a show that’s based on actual events."
-Yale Herald
"Actor Happy Anderson portrays Brudos with a level of apathy that's palpable, almost sickening. He's a hedonist - a sexual deviant through and through, and seems to be in denial about his actions."
-Zimbio.com
-...a tremendously subdued and disquieting performance by Happy Anderson..."
-MovieWeb.com
"Happy Anderson was one of the Mindhunter actors tasked with portraying a real-life serial killer, and he made just as much of an impact as the psycho-sexually twisted necrophiliac Jerry Brudos. Without spoiling much, let's just say viewers will never look at a stiletto heel quite the same way."
-Looper.com
“Fincher said, 'The scene with Happy [Anderson] was 11 pages. We had three cameras outside the cage, and we’d do a nine-and-a-half-minute take. Then I’d walk in with a yellow pad [filled] with single-spaced notes: [to Groff] ‘OK, that’s a joke, you can’t toss that off. And this? This is a statement. Make sure that’s a statement.’ And Jonathan would be there going, ‘OK, OK.’ [nodding] Then we’d do another nine-minute take and he’d do all that stuff [I asked], and I’d go to Holt and go over four pages of notes with him. And Happy was like, ‘What? We’re really going to do this [every time]?’”
-Indiewire
"Played by Happy Anderson on the show, Jerry Brudos is a mysterious killer..."
-Refinery29
Bad Boys for Life
Sony
"There is also a cool cameo you'll have to be pretty involved to see. I'll leave it at that to see if you can find it. And when you ask yourself if that other guy is John Goodman with special effects on his face, when you're like, "Is that him? Is it?" Well, it's not. It's actually Happy Anderson (Mindhunter). He's super believable and it was a great scene."
-HiddenRemote.com
-HiddenRemote.com
Snowpiercer
TNT
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"A delightful Happy Anderson playing the creepy prison keeper Dr. Klimpt is a highlight of this tech-heavy scene."
-Signal Horizon Magazine
"Please do not fail to note that Dr. Klimpt is played by Happy Anderson, who also played Jerry Brudos, the shoe fetish serial killer (!!!) on Mindhunter."
-Vulture
"Happy Anderson puts in a creepy performance of necessity and twisted proclivity as Klimpt, the keeper of those deemed unnecessary or dangerous."
-Best Entertainment News
"Dr. Klimpt (Happy Anderson) could easily take advantage of the people in the drawers, but as he strokes the hair of one of them, the viewer sees that he cares for them (like Wally in Minority Report) and is a good caretaker."
-Den of Geek
-Signal Horizon Magazine
"Please do not fail to note that Dr. Klimpt is played by Happy Anderson, who also played Jerry Brudos, the shoe fetish serial killer (!!!) on Mindhunter."
-Vulture
"Happy Anderson puts in a creepy performance of necessity and twisted proclivity as Klimpt, the keeper of those deemed unnecessary or dangerous."
-Best Entertainment News
"Dr. Klimpt (Happy Anderson) could easily take advantage of the people in the drawers, but as he strokes the hair of one of them, the viewer sees that he cares for them (like Wally in Minority Report) and is a good caretaker."
-Den of Geek
Bright
Netflix
"Edgar Ramirez stars as an elf names Kandomere who works for the FBI's magic division, with up and coming actor Happy Anderson as Montehugh, his human counterpart."
-The Express, UK
-The Express, UK
X-Men: The New Mutants
Fox
"In the comics, Rahne was an Irish orphan raised by the abusive Reverend Craig (who is played in the film by Mindhunter star Happy Anderson)."
-ComicBook.com
Casting Announcement
-X-MenFilms.com
-ComicBook.com
Casting Announcement
-X-MenFilms.com
Quarry
Cinemax
"Like most crime shows, Quarry is sporadically enlivened by the eccentrics at its periphery, who're played in this case by veteran character actors such as Peter Mullan, Damon Herriman, Ann Dowd, Tom Noonan, and Happy Anderson, who casually upstage the leads and cumulatively suggest a netherworld that might be more fruitfully expanded."
-SlantMagazine.com
"Two final, quick things...First, the detective team of Ratliff and Olsen is not only not going away, but they have the potential to be quite entertaining. Happy Anderson and Josh Randall play off each other in a way I felt–even in what has, so far, been limited screen time–reminded me of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill; it’s probably, mainly, because of Happy Anderson’s magnificent beard, but I’m okay with that."
-ProjectFandom.com
-SlantMagazine.com
"Two final, quick things...First, the detective team of Ratliff and Olsen is not only not going away, but they have the potential to be quite entertaining. Happy Anderson and Josh Randall play off each other in a way I felt–even in what has, so far, been limited screen time–reminded me of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill; it’s probably, mainly, because of Happy Anderson’s magnificent beard, but I’m okay with that."
-ProjectFandom.com
As You Like It
Shakespeare Theatre of D.C.
"Happy Anderson, as Corin, a shepherd, has a powerful physicality and wonderful comic timing as he tries to discourage his friend Silvius who is head over heels in love with local shepherdess Phoebe."
-Sophia Howes, DC Metro Theater Arts
"For sheer comic effect, the team of Happy Anderson and Stephen Pilkington are hard to beat as the shepherds Corin and Silvius. Anderson's gruff authority brings to mind an amiable Henry VIII
(sans wives and axes)..."
-Andrew White, Broadway World
"...comic roles like Corin (Happy Anderson)...served [his] purpose with brilliance."
-Amanda N. Gunther, TheatreBloom
"As two shepherds, Happy Anderson (Corin) and Silvius bring a welcome elemental simplicity, in contrast to the more complicated courtiers."
-Barbara Tranin Blank, MD Theatre Guide
"For the record, four overlapping groups of people play against each other...Group four is the country people and the shepherd Corin is played by the engaging, scene-stealing Happy Anderson..."
-Karren LaLonde Alenier, The Dressing
-Sophia Howes, DC Metro Theater Arts
"For sheer comic effect, the team of Happy Anderson and Stephen Pilkington are hard to beat as the shepherds Corin and Silvius. Anderson's gruff authority brings to mind an amiable Henry VIII
(sans wives and axes)..."
-Andrew White, Broadway World
"...comic roles like Corin (Happy Anderson)...served [his] purpose with brilliance."
-Amanda N. Gunther, TheatreBloom
"As two shepherds, Happy Anderson (Corin) and Silvius bring a welcome elemental simplicity, in contrast to the more complicated courtiers."
-Barbara Tranin Blank, MD Theatre Guide
"For the record, four overlapping groups of people play against each other...Group four is the country people and the shepherd Corin is played by the engaging, scene-stealing Happy Anderson..."
-Karren LaLonde Alenier, The Dressing
Emancipation
Classical Theatre of Harlem
"Mr. Anderson deserves praise for an uncompromising and highly physical performance in which he uses his hulking size as a kind of threat."
-Jason Zinoman, The New York Times
-Jason Zinoman, The New York Times
As You Like It
The Old Globe
"...That leaves things in the hands of her uncle, the capricious Duke Frederick (in a wonderfully blustery turn by Happy Anderson)."
-James Herbert, The San Diego Union-Tribune
-James Herbert, The San Diego Union-Tribune
Richard III
The Old Globe
"Many of the characters exist as set-ups for Richard’s schemes. The cast fleshes them out as best they can:
in particular Happy Anderson’s guilt-clogged Clarence..."
-Jeff Smith, San Diego Reader
in particular Happy Anderson’s guilt-clogged Clarence..."
-Jeff Smith, San Diego Reader
The End
2007 New York International Fringe Festival
"He is fortunate, however, to be sharing the stage with Happy Anderson, whose fierce, determined (and all-too-brief) performance as Jacob suggests an angrier version of John Goodman's character in
The Big Lebowski."
-Eric Winick, NYTheatre.com
The Big Lebowski."
-Eric Winick, NYTheatre.com
Hurlyburly
The Firehouse Theater
"...Mr. Anderson gives a brilliant, relentless performance as the reeling, hyper, coked-up Eddie. He's an emotional and physical mess, disheveled and sweaty, ranting fast than he can think. After the play's first five minutes you think you can't survive his speed and noise and nonsense a second longer;
then you find yourself hanging on Anderson's every word and gesture as he exquisitely unfolds this vulnerable, pathetic character. Praise falls short; just see it."
-Barbara Adams, The Ithaca Times
then you find yourself hanging on Anderson's every word and gesture as he exquisitely unfolds this vulnerable, pathetic character. Praise falls short; just see it."
-Barbara Adams, The Ithaca Times