Owen Painter

Painter was born on November 6, 1997, in West Hartford, Connecticut.^[1] He did several theatre roles in town, including Mel Beineke in Conard High School's 2016 production of The Addams Family Musical, and Lumiere in the 2016 West Hartford Summer Arts Festival presentation of Beauty and the Beast.^{[citation needed]}

In 2020, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Screen Acting from Chapman University in Orange, California.^[2]

In 2021, he made his film acting debut in the short film "Soup." In 2022, he starred in an episode of the television series The Handmaid's Tale.^[3] The following year, he received a recurring role as the younger Lucas in seven episodes of the miniseries Tiny Beautiful Things, whose alter ego was played by Nick Stahl.^[4] In 2025, he was seen in the second season of the Netflix original series Wednesday, initially as the zombie "Slurp," who regains his human appearance as Isaac Night over the course of the story.^[5]

On April 6, 2026, Deadline announced that Owen Painter had been cast in Roxy Sophie Sorkin's feature directorial debut, Hot Year, a coming-of-age revenge thriller, and the upcoming Ryan Murphy-produced erotic/psychological thriller series The Shards.^[6]