Colin Woodell

Colin Woodell is an American actor. He portrayed the role of main character Rick Betancourt for the TV series The Purge.

Biography
Colin Woodell is an American film, TV and stage actor best known for his role as Rick Betancourt on The Purge (TV series) on USA Network and Matias in the Blumhouse film Unfriended: Dark Web. He also played Aiden in the CW series The Originals, Tyler Richmond in the American political thriller Designated Survivor and Ronald Sturgis in the Showtime series Masters of Sex (2013-2016). His other film credits include Steven Soderbergh's Unsane, Screen Gem's Searching and the Netflix original film XOXO.

On the stage, Woodell has appeared Off-Broadway in Second Stage Theater's 2019 production of Dying City by Christopher Shinn. In 2017, Woodell played the role of Edmund Tyrone in The Geffen Playhouse's production of Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill in Los Angeles.

Education
Woodell began his training and first professional theater performances at The American Conservatory Theater as a member of the Young Conservatory. He moved to Los Angeles where he studied at the School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California, where he obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater.