Evan Peters: 10 Best Roles Outside Of American Horror Story (According To IMDb)

Evans Peters is known for bringing a wide range of characters to life in the FX anthology series American Horror Story. Peters, though, has a much more expansive filmography, one that reaches far beyond horror.

The 33-year-old made his feature film debut in 2004’s Clipping Adam, which launched his career. Evans continues to move between television and film roles, always bringing with him his signature quirk. This list looks beyond his roles in American Horror Story, digging into what else is known for, ranked according to IMDb.

Seth Wosmer In Phil Of The Future (2004 – 2006) – 7.0

One of Evans’s early television roles, Seth Wosmer has a five-episode arc in Disney Channel’s Phil of the Future, which is currently streaming on Disney+. In the show, a family from the future gets stuck in the present after their time machine malfunctions.

Wosmer is a nerdy student at Phil’s school who turns out to be his first real friend. Wosmer is a member of the H.G. Wells billiards team.

Warren Lipka In American Animals (2018) – 7.0

American Animals blurs the line between reality and fiction, jumping between interviews with real-life people involved in the movie’s events and reenactments with actors. Peters stars alongside Barry Keoghan, Eric Borsuk, and Blake Jenner as four college students in Lexington, Kentucky, who attempted to steal millions of dollars worth of rare books from their school library’s archive in 2003.

As Warren Lipka, Peters plays a compulsive young man motivated by the thrill and the status of the heist. He becomes increasingly obsessive and combative as the plan develops.

Ricky Hobbs In An American Crime (2007) – 7.3

Also based on true events, An American Crime tells the story of two teenage girls whose parents work in a traveling circus. The parents ask a local single mother, played by Catherine Keener, to take care of the girls while they’re away. Ellen Page plays the older girl, Sylvia Likens, who is systematically abused and tortured by the woman, her children, and their neighbors until she dies.

Peters plays one of their neighbors, Ricky Hobbs, who participated in the heinous crimes against Likens.

Jeff Wald In I Am Woman (2019) – 7.5

This biopic about Helen Reddy, an Australian-American 1970s feminist icon and singer, stars Tilda Cobham-Hervey in the main role. The title refers to one of her hit songs, of which she produced 28 more in her lifetime after arriving to New York City in 1966 with her three-year-old daughter.

Peters co-stars as Reddy’s husband and manager Jeff Wald, who managed other musical stars like Deep Purple and Donna Summers.

Jesse Varon In Invasion (2005 – 2006) – 7.5

Invasion only lasted for one season on ABC, but it developed a cult following that keeps it relevant to this day. Inspired by Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the show focuses on a South Florida town overrun by water-based aliens after its hit by a large, destructive hurricane.

Evan Peters plays the teenage son of a local park ranger portrayed by Eddie Cibrian. Peters’s character Jesse, along with his little sister, splits his time between his father and his mother, the head doctor at the town’s hospital who is married to the sheriff.

Todd In Kick-Ass (2010) – 7.6

Kick-Ass came out of the first wave of comic book adaptations in the early 2010s, the story of a teenager named Dave who transforms himself into a superhero. Aaron Johnson plays the title character, and Peters co-stars as one of his friends.

Stylized like a dark comedy, Kick-Ass features intense violence and language. Nicholas Cage and Chloë Grace Moretz play a father-daughter crime-fighting team named Big Daddy and Hit-Girl.

John ‘Jack’ Daniels In One Tree Hill (2003 – 2012) – 7.6

The WB and CW teen melodrama One Tree Hill aired for nine seasons, and Peters maintained a supporting role as Sam Walker’s love interest in the sixth season. His character Jack lives with his abusive older brother Xavier, an antagonist to many people in the show’s small North Carolina town.

Jack spends most of his time away from home, but when his brother goes to jail, he’s forced to relocate and live with a foster family.

Quicksilver In X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) – 8.0

Peters plays X-Men member Quicksilver in 2014’s Days of Future Past, 2016’s Apocalypse, and 2019’s Dark Phoenix. The comic book character originally created by Stan Lee is portrayed as a mutant teenager named Peter Maximoff. While he only has a small role in Days of Future Past, Quicksilver is a major plot-mover in Apocalypse.

It’s revealed in the 2016 film that Quicksilver is the son of ostracized X-Men Magneto, a fact he hides from his compatriots.

Cooper Day In The Days (2004) – 8.2

The Days is a six-episode series that aired on ABC over the summer of 2004. Each episode spans 24 hours in the life of a Philadelphia family aptly titled the Days. While well-received, the show was never extended by the network.

Peters plays the middle child, teenage Cooper. Cooper is an aspiring writer who hates high school and can’t wait for graduation. The show tackles real issues like sex and mental health.

Stan Bowes In Pose (2018 – ) – 8.6

Ryan Murphy, the creator of American Horror Story, is also behind this groundbreaking FX series about the New York City ballroom scene in the 1980s and 1990s. A community center and safe space for the city’s black and Latinx LGBTQ+ population, ballrooms were gender-nonconforming performance halls organized by an emcee and judges. Ballrooms gave rise the drag queen culture now featured on reality television and in bars across the world.

Peters plays a married suburbanite who works for Donald Trump in the city. After hiring Indya Moore’s character Angel, a trans woman who turns to sex work for income, the two engage in an ill-fated love affair, one based on Stan’s needs and desires. Eventually, Angel realizes she deserves a romance without qualifications and moves on from Stan.