Maury Ginsberg is a stage, film, and television actor with more than three decades of professional work, and one of the most consistently employed screen actors on our faculty. He is best known on television for recurring roles as Steven Benowitz on Marvel's Jessica Jones, Simon White on NBC's Manifest, and Moishe Abromovitz Jr. on Apple's The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey opposite Samuel L. Jackson.
His recent work includes the Lionsgate feature The Housemaid, directed by Paul Feig and starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, and the Apple TV series Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed with Tatiana Maslany. He appeared in five episodes of Hulu's Saint X and has returned to Law & Order in three different roles across twenty years, most recently in 2025. His additional television credits include What We Do in the Shadows, American Horror Stories, Scenes from a Marriage, New Amsterdam, Blue Bloods, Elementary, Madam Secretary, House of Cards, The Blacklist, Vinyl, Damages, The Good Wife, Friends, and Star Trek: Voyager. On film he has worked opposite Adam Sandler and Chris Rock in The Week Of, Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton in 5 Flights Up, Sigourney Weaver in The Girl in the Park, Drew Barrymore in Big Miracle, Ellen Burstyn and Hilary Duff in According to Greta, Richard Dreyfuss in Lansky, and Jonah Hill and Denis O'Hare in the Sundance winner Rocket Science.
In the theater, Maury spent several seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where he met Olympia Dukakis, his mentor and close friend for more than thirty years. The two worked together across some twenty years on productions of Chekhov, Brecht, and Shakespeare, including Mother Courage and The Cherry Orchard. He played Isaac in Disgraced at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, where the Cincinnati Enquirer called his work "superb," and Lemml in Paula Vogel's Indecent at Pittsburgh Public Theater, which the Pittsburgh Current described as "the foundational center of this production, playing Lemml with a power as quiet as it is electrifying." He has also appeared Off-Broadway at Cherry Lane Theatre and regionally at the Geffen Playhouse, The Old Globe, South Coast Repertory, Great Lakes Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Geva Theatre Center, and Pasadena Playhouse.
Maury is a graduate of Bard College. He has taught on the acting faculty at The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and at The Actors Center.
In Acting for the Camera at The Conservatory at NYPAA, Maury teaches from a working set, not a theory. Students learn what the frame actually requires and what it forgives, how to keep a performance alive through take after take and across coverage, how to hit a mark and match action without going dead behind the eyes, and how to behave like a professional the moment they arrive. Because he books guest and recurring roles continuously, he is candid about the part of the job most classes skip: walking onto an established set as the newest person there, with a few pages and very little time, and delivering.
