Corey Fogelmanis

Corey Fogelmanis
Fogelmanis in 2016
Born (1999-08-13) August 13, 1999
Thousand Oaks, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active2011–present

Corey Fogelmanis (/ˌfoʊɡəlˈmænɪs/;[1] born August 13, 1999) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Farkle Minkus on the Disney Channel sitcom Girl Meets World (2014–2017). He also starred in the horror films Ma (2019), for which he was nominated for a Teen Choice Award, and Carved (2024) and in the coming-of-age film I Wish You All the Best (2024). Since 2023, he has starred as Nathan Walter in the Netflix teen drama series My Life with the Walter Boys.

Early and personal life

Fogelmanis was born on August 13, 1999[2][3][4] in Thousand Oaks, California.[5] He was raised in Camarillo. He has one sister and his father previously worked as a delivery driver for UPS.[6]

Fogelmanis moved to New York City in 2019 and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, took a break from acting and began attending college.[2] He studied acting at Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop and for one semester at The New School. Also in 2020, he came out as queer in an Instagram post.[7] As of 2025, he lives in Brooklyn.[6]

Career

Fogelmanis began performing in musicals for his local theater at age six, performing with the Conejo Players Theatre,[8] and began his career in television and film at age 12.[9] He appeared in guest roles on the CBS series Partners, the Showtime series House of Lies (both 2012), and the Disney Channel series I Didn't Do It (2014).[10] From 2014 to 2017,[2] he starred on the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World, a spinoff of the ABC series Boy Meets World, as the eccentric and intelligent high school student Farkle Minkus, who is also the son of Boy Meets World characters Stuart Minkus and Jennifer Bassett.[11][12][13] In December 2015, he appeared as John Darling in the play Peter Pan and Tinker Bell – A Pirates Christmas at the Pasadena Playhouse alongside Girl Meets World cast members Sabrina Carpenter and August Maturo.[14][15] He also starred in the 2016 film R.L. Stine's Mostly Ghostly: One Night In Doom House.[16]

Fogelmanis then starred in the Hazel Hayes–directed thriller miniseries PrankMe for the defunct company Fullscreen as Jasper Perkins, a social media prankster who becomes a murderer.[17] The series premiered in September 2017.[18] He starred as Nate in the 2018 horror film #SquadGoals and as high schooler Andy Hawkins, the love interest of protagonist Maggie (played by Diana Silvers), in the 2019 horror film Ma.[19][20][21] For his role in Ma, he was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer Movie Actor.[22] In the 11th episode of the first season of the Hulu horror anthology series Into the Dark, "School Spirit", he starred as awkward high school student Brett.[23][24] He had a cameo in the Amy Poehler–directed film Moxie in 2021.[10]

In 2022, Fogelmanis appeared as Jude Bruneau in the fourth episode of the sixteenth season of Criminal Minds.[25] In 2023, he began starring as Nathan Walter, an openly gay teenage musician with epilepsy, in the Netflix teen drama series My Life with the Walter Boys.[26][27][28] He starred in the 2024 Hulu horror comedy film Carved as Cody, the boyfriend of protagonist Kira (played by Peyton Elizabeth Lee).[29][30] In 2022, Fogelmanis was cast in the coming-of-age film I Wish You All the Best, which was adapted from Mason Deaver's 2019 novel of the same name and was actress Tommy Dorfman's directorial debut, in the lead role of Ben DeBacker (later known in the film as B.), a non-binary high school junior who gets kicked out of their home upon coming out.[31][32] The film first premiered at South by Southwest in March 2024 and was released in theaters and digitally in November 2025.[33][34] Nell Minow, writing for RogerEbert.com, praised Fogelmanis's performance as "beautiful", while Luna Guthrie of Collider called it "heart-wrenching" and wrote that it displayed a "range and depth of emotion".[35][36] Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote that Ben's internal conflict was not "dramatized very vividly" by Fogelmanis but that he "holds central focus strongly enough in most respects" within the film.[37]

Fogelmanis starred in the Linda Yellen film One Stupid Thing, which premiered at the Boston International Film Festival in April 2025.[38] He and singer Conan Gray appeared together as gay lovers Brando and Wilson, respectively, in three music videos for singles from Conan Gray's 2025 studio album Wishbone, which were released from May to August of that year: "This Song", "Vodka Cranberry", and "Caramel".[39][40] He also appeared onstage for Gray's Romeo and Juliet–based performance of "Vodka Cranberry" at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, in which he portrayed Juliet.[41] He is set to appear in David Fincher's upcoming film The Adventures of Cliff Booth, a sequel to the Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood which is scheduled for release in the summer of 2026.[26][42][43]

Filmography

Key
† Denotes productions that have not yet been released

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2012 House of Lies T-Bird in Play Episode: "Gods of Dangerous Financial Instruments"
Partners Louis at 12 Episode: "Pilot"
2014–2017 Girl Meets World Farkle Minkus Main cast; 71 episodes
2015 I Didn't Do It Stevie Moops Episode: "Stevie Likes Lindy"
2017 PrankMe Jasper Perkins Main cast; 8 episodes
2019 Into the Dark Brett Episode: "School Spirit"
2022 Criminal Minds Jude Bruneau Episode: "Pay-Per-View"
2023–present My Life with the Walter Boys Nathan Walter Main cast; 20 episodes

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2016 R.L. Stine's Mostly Ghostly: One Night In Doom House Max Doyle Direct-to-video film
2018 #SquadGoals Nate
2019 Ma Andy
2021 Moxie Mark
2024 I Wish You All the Best Ben DeBacker
2024 Carved Cody
2025 One Stupid Thing Jamie
2026 The Adventures of Cliff Booth † TBA

Music videos

Year Title Artist
2025 "This Song" Conan Gray
"Vodka Cranberry"
"Caramel"

References

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  3. ^ @coreyfogelmanis (August 14, 2019). "Spent my birthday reading James Baldwin and doing reiki on this flower Love all of you and your love" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ^ @sarahcarpenter; (August 13, 2020). "happy birthday corey. thank you for giving me a great excuse to be nostalgic about all the fun times we've had together. love you always" – via Instagram.
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