zack Morris Gets Candid About The Pitt, The Bluff, and Momentum After Goosebumps

ack Morris has been doing the work long enough that his recent run of high-profile roles feels less like a sudden breakout and more like the next logical step. Raised in Basildon, Essex, he first got pulled toward acting at seven after seeing Annie at the theatre, then started building reps the unglamorous way: weekend drama classes, early screen experience, and any stage opportunity he could get his hands on. That foundation quickly turned real. Through his teens, he appeared in multiple West End productions, including Joseph, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Oliver, and at 16, he earned the Marvin Humes Scholarship to attend the D&B Academy of Performing Arts.

By 17, he was already on one of the UK’s biggest stages for a young actor—EastEnders. Cast as Keegan Baker, Morris spent years inside the pace and pressure of continuing drama, where scenes move fast, and choices have to land cleanly, over and over again. Naturally, that stretch put him in front of a massive audience, but it also sharpened the kind of practical, hands-on craft you can only learn in motion. After leaving the series, he pivoted into features with the action thriller Jericho Ridge, then widened his reach again with Goosebumps for Disney+/Hulu, playing series’ lead Isaiah Howard in the teen horror hit inspired by R.L. Stine’s world.

Now based largely in Los Angeles, he is heading into 2026 with two major projects that signal a clear shift into bigger conversations. Most recently, he’s appeared in season two of HBO’s high-caliber medical drama The Pitt, and will follow it with Amazon MGM’s upcoming film The Bluff, directed by Frank E. Flowers and produced by the Russo Brothers, opposite Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Karl Urban. And for a hardworking actor like Morris, it reads like a turning point. The résumé is expanding, the rooms are getting larger, and the choices are feeling intentional.

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