Hugo Armstrong

Acting

Hugo Armstrong

Best known for his roles in such films as Lucky, Coherence, Roman J. Israel, Esq., and Daniel Martinico’s OK, Good and Excursions, Armstrong's television work includes recurring roles on True Lies, Bosch: Legacy and NCIS as well as The Blacklist, Room 104, and Fear the Walking Dead. In theater, he recently appeared in Evanston Salt Costs Climbing at Rogue Machine Theatre. He is also known for his onstage roles in The Ants at the Geffen Playhouse, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 at the Mark Taper Forum, Uncle Vanya at Pasadena Playhouse, and Power of Sail also at the Geffen Playhouse. Recent VO includes podcast series DUST, Agent Stoker, and Blood Weed on Audible Originals, as well as voices for Cinema Toast.

Acting credits

Coherence poster
7.2

Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.

Coherence

2014

Roman J. Israel, Esq. poster
6.3

Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

2017

No Man of God poster
6.6

The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.

No Man of God

2021

Lay the Favorite poster
5.2

A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.

Lay the Favorite

2012

Nostalgia poster
5.5

A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.

Nostalgia

2018

Lucky poster
7.3

Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.

Lucky

2017

Watching Mr. Pearson poster
10.0

When a once famous actor can no longer decipher the past from the present, two devoted caretakers discover that imagination and performance may be the only way to help him reconnect with the world that's left him behind.

Watching Mr. Pearson

2026

Grace poster
6.0

A famous writer begins suffering from a crippling case of writer's block. His agent sends him a strange, belligerent woman to be his new assistant, hoping the change will inspire him.

Grace

2018

Cuck poster
4.3

Ronnie is a young white male, struggling with the pressures of life. He’s unemployed, rejected from the military for being mentally unstable, and lives at home with his ailing and nagging mother. Ronnie finds an outlet for his frustration online. The alt-right community gives him a place to belong and absolves his personal responsibility.

Cuck

2019

Burning Dog poster
5.3

When a video game designer stumbles into a blackmail conspiracy, he clashes with contract killers, Russian mobsters, and compromised cops in a wild journey through the bizarro world of Los Angeles. Uniquely told through a first-person point of view, Burning Dog is a relentless suspense thriller that keeps you guessing until the very end.

Burning Dog

2020

Nanking poster
7.1

The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens of thousands of Chinese. In the midst of this horror, a small group of Western expatriates banded together to save 250,000. Nanking shows the tremendous impact individuals can make on the course of history.

Nanking

2007

Rachel Hendrix poster
NR

A creative writing professor experiences a relapse of grief one year after the loss of her husband. Rachel Hendrix must face the challenge of how to deal with private grief in a time of public trauma as COVID-19 wrecks its way through both town and her much loved coastal world.

Rachel Hendrix

2023

The Only One poster
5.5

On the brink of resigning herself to a life of independence and wanderlust, a young woman visits an old flame on his vineyard in France and takes one last shot at a committed relationship.

The Only One

2021

DRIB poster
6.5

The true story of how director Kristoffer Borgli's friend Amir, a stand-up comedian and performance artist, almost ended up as the international face of a well-known energy drink, represented here under the pseudonym DRIB.

DRIB

2017

Dark Cloud poster
5.6

Following the aftermath of a horrific accident, a woman is voluntarily subjected to artificial intelligence for rehabilitation.

Dark Cloud

2022

Weak Species poster
5.4

Classmates Steve and George are part of a frightening food chain. For Steve, high school is a game. Seducing his classmates gives him his sense of purpose and fuels his art and poetry. When Steve sets his sights on the school star athlete, he starts a cat and mouse chase which could ruin him and his idol. George, the school recluse, copes with the stress of his mother's cancer and strained relationship with his father by cutting class and using drugs. Hooking up with a stranger in an effort to lose himself, George finds himself in a life or death situation. At odds with each other, George and Steve have more in common than they realize. As their paths spiral downward, they could save each other - or continue on their way to self-destruction.

Weak Species

2009

School Spirit poster
5.5

A group of social outcasts, stuck in weekend detention, find themselves stalked by their school’s urban legend who is set on killing bad students.

School Spirit

2019

The Passing Parade poster
3.5

A famous playwright's life is turned upside down when she is forced to look at the choices she has made.

The Passing Parade

2019

Jane Austen's Period Drama poster
7.1

England, 1813. In the middle of a long-awaited marriage proposal, Miss Estrogenia Talbot gets her period. Her suitor, Mr. Dickley, mistakes the blood for an injury, and it soon becomes clear that his expensive education has missed a spot.

Jane Austen's Period Drama

2024

Whiskers - A Christmas Short Film poster
NR

A guy that looks like Santa Claus wanders the streets of LA.

Whiskers - A Christmas Short Film

2025

Love in the Time of Monsters poster
6.3

Two sisters travel to a cheesy tourist trap where they battle toxic monsters dressed in bigfoot costumes in order to save the ones they love.

Love in the Time of Monsters

2014

No artwork available
NR

Directed by John Frost & John Hindman.

8 Confessions in Los Angeles

2024

A Wedding Day poster
10.0

For newlyweds Brad and Jill, it seems the honeymoon is over before it even began. When an eccentric stranger named Jess White stumbles into the couples first argument as man and wife, the day takes an abrupt turn and changes their lives forever.

A Wedding Day

Political Disasters poster
NR

In the opening years of the new millennium, two mutually dependent families attempt to extricate themselves from their own entangled web of dishonesty.

Political Disasters

2009

Behind the camera