Brandon Ruckdashel finishes filming
"Changing the Game" in Philly

Brandon stars in “Changing The Game,” a new feature film directed by Rel Dowdell currently in production. “Changing The Game” is the gripping story of two childhood friends from a gritty North Philadelphia neighborhood who choose divergent life paths but find themselves facing the same risks and, quite possibly, the same ending.

Brandon made his professional stage debut as the lead in the hit play Ascension. Ascension opened to rave reviews in the New York papers and sold out houses.

Anita Gates in the New York Times wrote "the 23-year-old Mr. Ruckdashel is making his Off Broadway debut and it is a stunning one. This is partly because he has the intense blond good looks of a young Brad Pitt with a soupcon of James Dean."

Elyse Sommer in Curtain Up called him “a young Leonardo DiCaprio” and Ellis Nassour said “Brandon Ruckdashel raises the temperature to red hot.”

On television he is currently the lead in the HBO/Cinemax series Coed Confidential and in a spin-off feature Cougar Confidential as well in the television feature Inside. Brandon also has played recurring guest star roles in the Here Network series The Lair and in the HBO/Cinemax series Life On Top as well as in the Jerry Zucker pilot National Debt.

On film Brandon played Virgil, a naïve young man caught in the decadent 1920’s Parisian demimonde, in the independent feature Virgil and will play Marty, a Wall Street manipulator, in the feature Changing The Game that begins production in Philadelphia.

In addition to film and television, Brandon has continued his stage work. In Los Angeles he played Chip in the 1980’s musical The Next Big Thing and Twist in the Drama Desk Award nominated Twist. In New York he starred in George Carr's A Body Without A Head, based on the work of former Calvin Klein Creative Director Zack Carr.

Also on stage, Brandon recently was the lead in Alexander Pushkin’s Little Tragedies at the Mikhail Baryshnikov Theater and recently played Josh, the surrogate son of a gay couple, in All That Might Happen.