Known for Acting
Austin Amelio (born April 27, 1988) is an American actor best known for his role as Dwight in The Walking Dead, its spin-off Fear the Walking Dead, and his role as Nesbit on Everybody Wants Some!!
Born
April 27, 1988 (age 38)
Birthplace
Austin, Texas, USA
Filmography
21 films, 5 shows
showing 19 of 21 films


The Weight
2026 · 1h 52m
country: United States
When Samuel is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy offers him a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he’ll win his freedom.


Hokum
2026 · 1h 48m
country: United States
When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.


Bunnylovr
2026 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A drifting Chinese American cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying estranged father.


Broke
2025 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A bronc rider in denial about his fading rodeo career battles against brain injury and a sudden blizzard while reflecting on how it became so difficult to achieve his dreams.


Lovebug
2025
country: United States
On a rainy night, a mysterious woman enters a stranger's motel room looking for something she left behind.


The Reunion
2024 · 1h 30m
country: United States
An old-money family gathers at their estate to celebrate the matriarch’s birthday—but their real intention is to send her off to a nursing home and begin scheming over her inheritance.


Hit Man
2024 · 1h 56m
country: United States
A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.


The Laundromat Off Malibu
2021 · 15m
country: Unknown
A live-action, psychological thriller short film set in a small, run-down laundromat located off Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway. The story follows the mysterious Sarah, a staff worker, and her interactions with Jason Cormack, a customer who hides a dark secret. As we find out more about Jason’s past and his reasons for being there, we realize that the laundromat is not what it appears to be.


No Future
2021 · 1h 29m
country: United States
After the tragic overdose of his estranged friend, Will, a recovering addict, returns home, where he is reunited with Claire, his friend's grieving mother, with whom he begins a secret but volatile affair.


Holler
2021 · 1h 31m
country: United States
In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.


Mercy Black
2019 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A woman is sent to a mental institution after stabbing her classmate in an attempt to conjure an evil spirit called, Mercy Black. Fifteen years later she's released, and must save her nephew, who has become obsessed with the phenomenon.


Apples & Oranges
2018 · 21m
country: Unknown
A coming of age story about River, a preteen girl living in a trailer park in rural Texas, who is left alone for the evening and is forced to confront her abuser. Although she is isolated, she gathers strength from the lessons she has learned from her mother and grandmother.


Song to Song
2017 · 2h 9m
country: United States
In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.


Cabin Crew
2017
country: United States
A crew of wanna be outlaws bent on saving their friend's life retreat to a family cabin after a bank heist and soon discover that when it comes to crime, they should leave it to the professionals - the police.


The Free World
2016 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Following his release from a brutal stretch in prison for crimes he didn't commit, Mo is struggling to adapt to life on the outside. When his world collides with Doris, a mysterious woman with a violent past, he decides to risk his newfound freedom to keep her in his life.


Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Highlighting one of the most innovative American directors, this film reveals the path traveled by the auteur from his small-town Texas roots to his warm reception on the awards circuit. Long before he directed Boyhood, Richard Linklater’s intense desire to create fueled his work outside the Hollywood system. Rather than leave Texas, he chose to collaborate with like-minded artists crafting modest, low-budget films in a DIY style. His ability to showcase realistic characters and tell honest stories was evident from his films, and others soon took notice of his raw talent.


Putting the Dog to Sleep
2016 · 12m
country: United States
A bereaved man copes with a burdensome past and realizes he is inextricably linked to it.


Everybody Wants Some!!
2016 · 1h 57m
country: United States
A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.


Deliverance Creek
2014 · 1h 27m
country: United States
At the end of the Civil War, Belle Gatlin Barlowe, a widowed mother of three, faces uncertainty as she attempts to defend her family's land by any means necessary. When the corrupt local bank pushes Belle into becoming an outlaw, the stakes become personal, setting off a chain of events that force her to question whether it's better to be lawful or to survive.