Kyle Allen (actor)

Kyle Allen (born 1994) is an American actor and ballet dancer.

A native of Livermore, California, Allen began training in acrobatics at a young age, and attended the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C., where upon watching Taras Domitro perform Romeo & Juliet at the Kennedy Center, felt discouraged from pursuing ballet further. Upon graduation, he lived in Los Angeles picking up commercial work as well as a part lip syncing in a Master P music video.[1]

In July 2015, Allen was cast in a lead role on the Hulu drama series The Path co-starring Aaron Paul and Michelle Monaghan, appearing in all 36 episodes.[2] Upon the series ending in 2018, Allen appeared in a recurring role in American Horror Story,[3] and in 2019 he was cast as Balkan, one of the Jets in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, a remake of the 1961 film and adaptation of the Broadway musical.[4] In 2021, Allen would be cast as Romeo in Rosaline, a modern retelling of Romeo & Juliet co-starring Kaitlyn Dever and Isabela Merced,[5] and in The Greatest Beer Run Ever co-starring Zac Efron and Russell Crowe.[6]