NICK MILONE.

I started acting at 19 while playing college football at Widener. That meant a lot of time on the road: Philly to New York for acting classes, and three-and-a-half-hour drives to White Plains for background work on NBC’s Rise. I got very generous with my definition of a reasonable commute.

On Rise, a producer took an interest in me and helped me get my first major audition. I was still figuring out how any of this worked. Suddenly, this didn’t feel like such a crazy idea.

My first modeling job through Wilhelmina was inspired by Archie from Riverdale. That gave me the nerve to email KJ Apa’s manager. The email had considerably more enthusiasm than strategy. I was a Philly kid managing myself, so a reply was surprising enough. An audition for Fezco in Euphoria was another thing entirely. Someone taking that chance on me meant a lot.

I took the bet on myself and moved to Los Angeles. I booked a co-star role on Hollywood during my first year there, and my screen work grew to include NCIS: Origins, Suits LA and playing young Terry Bradshaw in The Blind. That last one felt pretty full circle for a guy whose original plan was the NFL.

Other work has let me play in a different way: print and fitness modeling for Calvin Klein, voicing Apple’s M2 chip, and being a Barista Bud alongside Ben Affleck for Dunkin’. It’s been an interesting collection of workdays.

I trained at Stella Adler and T. Schreiber in New York, completed the two-year Meisner conservatory at Ruskin, and continued with professional training at RADA in London in 2024 and 2025.

Along the way, I built my own self-tape studio and coached and taped other actors. I love the moment in a tape session when one adjustment changes the scene and we both go, “There it is.”

Now I’m heading back to New York, where so much of this started, with Los Angeles still in the mix. Same Philly grit, a little less guesswork, and a much fuller tool belt.