Joey Morgan

Morgan's screen career got going in earnest with *Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse* (2015), a Paramount horror-comedy in which he played Augie Foster — the most earnest of the three scout leads, the one who actually believes in the troop while his friends are already mentally checked out. It's a specific kind of role, the sincere kid in a cynical genre movie, and Morgan didn't play it for laughs alone. The film found its audience on streaming and cable long after its theatrical run, which meant his performance kept getting discovered. The real turning point, though, was *Flower* (2017). Directed by Max Winkler, the film is a darkly comic character study, and Morgan's work as Luke Sherman — a teenager navigating a genuinely difficult emotional landscape opposite Zoey Deutch's Erica — was the kind of supporting performance that makes critics sit up. The 2017 Tribeca Film Festival named him one of nine Breakout Talents that year (TMDB), and that recognition wasn't just festival-circuit noise; it signaled that he could carry dramatic weight, not just genre energy. He kept working steadily after that. *Compadres* (2016), *Sierra Burgess Is a Loser* (Netflix, 2018), *Camp Manna* (2018), and *Max Reload and the Nether Blasters* (2020) filled out his film credits, while TV appearances on *Chicago Med* (2017), *Angie Tribeca* (2018), and the Shudder series *Critters: A New Binge* (2019) showed he wasn't limiting himself to one lane. It's a filmography that, taken together, reads like someone who was still figuring out his range — in the best way — when his career was cut short by his death in November 2021 (Hollywood Reporter / Deadline).