Early life and education
Corddry grew up in Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Weymouth High School in 1995. He attended Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire, graduating in 2000 with a degree in Communications. He spent four summers performing with the Williamstown Theatre Festival and appeared in a touring Broadway production of The Graduate with Morgan Fairchild. In 2023 he earned a Master's degree in English from Harvard Extension School.1
Career
Corddry made his television debut in scattered guest roles before joining The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as a correspondent on October 4, 2005. He appeared in nine episodes through 2006, including a notable segment alongside his brother Rob titled "Brother vs. Brother." His Daily Show profile led directly to a starring role in Aaron Sorkin's prestige comedy-drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (NBC, 2006-2007), where he played Tom Jeter, a writer and performer on a fictional Saturday Night Live-style variety show, across all 22 episodes.1
He continued building a substantial television resume in the decade that followed. He played Gene Stuart in Showtime's United States of Tara (2009, 10 episodes), then landed the recurring role of Adam Branch in the NBC legal drama Harry's Law (2011-2012), which ran for two seasons. His highest-profile supporting role came on the CBS sitcom Mom (2013-2015), where he played Gabriel across 22 episodes in the series' first two seasons, opposite Anna Faris and Allison Janney.1
Corddry has been a reliable presence in prestige television throughout the 2010s and 2020s. Guest and supporting appearances include Law and Order: Criminal Intent, 30 Rock, The Pacific, New Girl, David Fincher's Mindhunter (Netflix), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), Fosse/Verdon (FX), Perry Mason (HBO), and Barry (HBO).2 He voiced Zed across 14 episodes of the animated series Tron: Uprising (Disney XD, 2012-2013).1
His most sustained recent role was engineer Larry Wilson in Apple TV+'s alternate-history space drama For All Mankind (2019-2022), appearing in 17 episodes across multiple seasons.1 He followed that with a recurring role as Larry Radakowski in Amazon's Paper Girls (2022, 6 episodes), the adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's comic book series.1 In 2024 he appeared as David Siegel in all eight episodes of Apple TV+'s neo-noir mystery series Sugar, starring Colin Farrell.2 He appeared in the Hulu/MGM series The Testaments (2026), the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, as Commander MacKenzie.3
On the film side, his credits include The Nanny Diaries (2007), Yogi Bear (2010, as the Chief of Staff), The Heat (2013) with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, The Circle (2017), and Standing Up, Falling Down (2019).2
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016)
In Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, Corddry portrays the Graffiti Artist, a minor but narratively significant character the team encounters at the Seward Street Subway Station while investigating Patty Tolan's ghost sighting. When the Graffiti Artist tells Patty and the team he has seen a ghost, he proceeds to spray paint a stereotypical bedsheet ghost on the station wall. After Patty tells him she does not want any more graffiti there, he adds a red circle-and-slash over the image. In this continuity, that improvised design is the origin of the Ghostbusters' iconic No Ghost logo, unknowingly created by a subway vandal before the team even had a name.4
The same graffiti design appears as a cross-franchise Easter egg in IDW Publishing's Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron Issue 3, where the No Ghost logo graffiti can be seen painted on Optimus Prime, extending the in-universe joke across media.5
Personal life
Corddry married actress and producer Jess Russell in 2021. His older brother, Rob Corddry, is also an actor and comedian, known for Hot Tub Time Machine and Childrens Hospital.1
References
Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.
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"Nate Corddry," Wikipedia, accessed June 13, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Corddry
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"Nate Corddry," IMDb, accessed June 13, 2026. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1682319/
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TV Insider, "'The Testaments': Why Commander MacKenzie Was Recast in 'Handmaid's Tale' Spinoff" (2026). https://www.tvinsider.com/1258317/commander-mackenzie-the-testaments-recast-handmaids-tale/
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Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016), dir. Paul Feig. Columbia Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures. Chapter 6.
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Erik Burnham (w.), Dan Schoening (a.). Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron #3, IDW Publishing, August 7, 2019, p. 19, panel 1.
