Ross garnered critical acclaim for his role as
Alby Grant in the HBO series
Big Love for five seasons. He also played Eddie Scott in the 2005 film
Good Night, and Good Luck, for which he was nominated for a
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. In 2011 and 2015, he played
Charles Montgomery in the first and fifth seasons of
FX's
anthology series
American Horror Story. His feature film directorial debut,
28 Hotel Rooms, premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival in 2012. Before that, Ross made seven short films, including
The Language of Love, which premiered at a prior Sundance festival. Ross subsequently wrote and directed the feature film
Captain Fantastic, starring
Viggo Mortensen, for which he won the
Un Certain Regard Prize for Best Director at the
2016 Cannes Film Festival. Mortensen's performance in the film earned multiple accolades, including an
Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. ==Personal life==