Ross Turner

Acting

Ross Turner

Eureka, California, USA

Ross is a multiple award-winning actor best known for his recurring role as Liberty High math teacher Mr. Wood in three seasons of the hit Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. He won 3 best actor awards for his starring role in sci-fi short "The Bumbry Encounter," 7 best supporting actor awards for supernatural western short "Ghost in the Gun," and an additional best acting ensemble award for "Ghost in the Gun" that he shares with "Star Trek: Voyager" star Tim Russ. In 2007, after 20 years in theater and stand-up comedy, Ross made an unexpected leap to film when Grateful Dead concert film director Len Dell'Amico noticed him performing in a comedy showcase with the late Robin Williams. The result was a starring role in Dell'Amico's indie feature "Welcome to Dopeland" (2010). Since then, Ross has completed 24 feature films - with screenings at SXSW, Tribeca, Sundance, Cinequest, and the San Francisco International Film Festival. In Japan, Ross has appeared in guest star roles on multiple episodes of two popular television series: "Sekai Gyoten News" and "World Hanzai Mystery." Born and raised in Eureka, California, Ross is a fourth-generation native of Humboldt County. His media and performing arts family includes mom Donna Cleveland (local television personality and "Romper Room" teacher), dad Bill Turner (college radio personality and stage actor), sister Heidi Turner (SAG and AEA actress), uncle Bob Turner (radio DJ, television host, producer, and newscaster), and grandmother Mable Turner (film organist during the silent film era, and big band pianist).

Acting credits

Outbreak poster
6.6

A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.

Outbreak

1995

Yes, Giorgio poster
3.9

A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.

Yes, Giorgio

1982

Adjunct poster
2.0

A promising writer-turned-adjunct college professor grapples with the harsh reality of being undervalued and disposable in academia. As he confronts mounting disillusionment, he must chart a new path forward.

Adjunct

2024

Waking poster
NR

On his last day, a young man spends the day attempting to catch a fish at a lake perceived to be lifeless.

Waking

Manifest West poster
5.9

A coming of age story told through the eyes of a young girl whose family spirals out of control after they decide to live off the grid.

Manifest West

2022

The Lethe poster
NR

Three college students create a promising memory-altering device for their final project. But when they clash over the use of their ground-breaking invention, things quickly spiral out of control, resulting in tragic consequences.

The Lethe

2025

Adult Best Friends poster
4.6

Inseparable since childhood, levelheaded Katie takes her codependent best friend Delaney on a girls’ trip to break the news that she is getting married. Things do not go as planned.

Adult Best Friends

2024

Elevate poster
5.0

Tiffany works the graveyard shift as a security guard at a government building. Over the course of one work night, she finds herself facing unspoken realities after a chance encounter.

Elevate

2022

To Kill a Stepfather poster
6.0

Lisa learns that her stepfather, whom she hasn't seen in years, suffered a deadly fall down the stairs at the family home and that her estranged mother has been arrested for his murder. As she begins to investigate what happened, she discovers that not everything is as it seems.

To Kill a Stepfather

2023

Man from Reno poster
6.4

A mystery outside of San Francisco brings together small-town sheriff Paul Del Moral, Japanese author Aki Akahori, and a traveler from Reno who soon disappears, leaving behind his suitcase and a trail of questions.

Man from Reno

2014

Alarmed poster
4.5

Trapped aboard the family yacht, Samantha lives out her personal Hell, night after night, answering to the cruel and painful demands of the ship's alarm system. Taking a journey into the depths of depravity, she wakes each morning to the disfiguring scars left by the previous night's horror and searches for the answer to a missing memory: 'Could I have killed my family... Or did Hell get it wrong?'

Alarmed

2015

Quitters poster
4.3

The story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his father Roger stop getting along, Clark thinks about running away from home. He just needs to decide where to go.

Quitters

2015

Ghost in the Gun poster
NR

A man left for dead in the desert encounters a possessed gun and transforms into a gunslinger bent on avenging his wife's murder, but unbeknownst to him the gun has a vendetta of its own.

Ghost in the Gun

2019

Forgotten Evil poster
4.8

A woman with amnesia tries to restart her life until the past comes back to haunt her.

Forgotten Evil

2017

Apotheosis poster
5.0

Selene, a young aerospace engineer, dreams of going to space, but she was born naturally in this near future society where the first generation of genetically engineered humans has more privileges than the others. When her mother loses her job, Selene decides to compete against genetically engineered humans to secure a job position on the first habitable space colony, Rusk Venture's Ourania. She'll be competing against her friend Fabrizio, Rusk's engineered son.

Apotheosis

2022

The Purple Onion poster
NR

Inspired by the standup acts of real life Chinese American comedian Edwin Li, a young man in San Francisco spirals downward into disappointment until he finds solace in a brief sexual encounter with an older woman to whom he may or may not be related.

The Purple Onion

The Legend of Jack and Diane poster
2.0

Jack and Diane are forced to leave Indiana after discovering secrets about the death of Diane's mother. When their worst fears are confirmed by the chief of police, Jack and Diane create a "Hit List" and exact revenge on everyone involved.

The Legend of Jack and Diane

2023

MindReader poster
4.0

A prestigious magician's association is baffled by an up and coming mentalist, The Great Dexter, in the early 1970's who can apparently read minds.

MindReader

2022

Mesmera poster
NR

When a series of gruesome suicides plagues a small Northern California town, Detective Hill investigates a mysterious lead, resulting in a deadly encounter with an occult mesmerist responsible for the deaths.

Mesmera

2026

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6.0

Three very different people — a quantum physicist, a neuroscientist (Sheetal Sheth), and an FBI agent — find themselves drawn into a spiraling mystery. Confronted with a mysterious car accident, the three must interpret clues that defy common sense. Their collective quest takes them from science to art to music to mysticism in a widening search for answers. After an intense outward chase to satisfy their rational minds, the trio realizes the answers they desire lie buried deep within themselves. As each seeker begins to embrace the true nature of reality, each is rewarded with revelations beyond their wildest imaginings. What they learn leaves them humbled and in awe of the strange and beautiful universe we call home. When everything makes sense, nothing makes sense. This highly philosophical narrative has been applauded by scientists, artists, thinkers, scholars, media, academia, students and audiences from 10 to 80+ years old.

The Wisdom Tree

2013

Demon in the White House poster
5.8

The world's most haunted house is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where two grieving first ladies may have unwittingly invited evil into their temporary home. This spirit could still be tormenting America's presidents, their families and their advisors.

Demon in the White House

2021

Parachute poster
9.0

Wendy, a Chinese “parachute kid,” is struggling to adapt to her new American life.

Parachute

2020

Go to Hell and Turn Left poster
6.0

Turning to alcoholism following his wife's death, a deaf painter is very confused when he finds her alive two years later.

Go to Hell and Turn Left

2019

Lights Out Chinatown poster
NR

After the murder of a Chinatown masseuse, a forensic artist must win the trust of a reluctant witness in order to complete the sketch of the killer.

Lights Out Chinatown

2020