1982-03-31 Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Brian Tyree Henry (born March 31, 1982) is an American actor. He rose to prominence for his role as rapper Alfred "Paper Boi" Miles in the FX comedy-drama series Atlanta (2016–2022), for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Henry had a guest role in This Is Us in 2017 and had his film breakthrough in 2018 with roles in Steve McQueen's heist film Widows and Barry Jenkins' romantic drama If Beale Street Could Talk. He has since appeared in Child's Play (2019), Joker (2019), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Bullet Train (2022), and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024). He portrayed Phastos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals (2021). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a grieving man in the drama film Causeway (2022). He also voiced Jefferson Davis in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and Megatron in Transformers One (2024). Henry has also appeared on stage, making his debut performance in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Romeo and Juliet (2007) and acting in various plays at the Public Theatre before appearing in the original Broadway cast of The Book of Mormon (2011). In 2014, he appeared in the off-Broadway musical The Fortress of Solitude. For his performance in the 2018 Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan's play Lobby Hero, he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Tyree Henry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse | Jeff Morales (voice) | 2027-06-02 |
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The Fire Inside | Jason Crutchfield | 2024-12-25 |
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire | Bernie Hayes | 2024-03-27 |
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Transformers One | D-16 / Megatron (voice) | 2024-09-11 |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie | Self | 2023-05-09 |
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The Magician's Elephant | Leo Matienne (voice) | 2023-03-10 |
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The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story | Jefferson Davis (voice) | 2023-06-12 |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Jeff Morales (voice) | 2023-05-31 |
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Causeway | James | 2022-10-28 |
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals | Self - Phastos | 2022-02-16 |
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Bullet Train | Lemon | 2022-08-03 |
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Godzilla vs. Kong | Bernie Hayes | 2021-03-24 |
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Eternals | Phastos | 2021-11-03 |
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The Woman in the Window | Detective Little | 2021-05-13 |
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The Outside Story | Charles Young | 2021-04-30 |
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Vivo | Dancarino (voice) | 2021-07-30 |
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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America | Prior Walter | 2020-10-08 |
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Superintelligence | Dennis Caruso | 2020-12-11 |
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The Cold Open | 2019-02-23 | |
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Child's Play | Detective Mike Norris | 2019-06-19 |
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Don't Let Go | Garret Radcliff | 2019-08-30 |
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Joker | Carl (Arkham Clerk) | 2019-10-01 |
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Jefferson Davis (voice) | 2018-12-06 |
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Widows | Jamal Manning | 2018-11-06 |
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Family | Pete | 2018-08-19 |
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If Beale Street Could Talk | Daniel Carty | 2018-12-14 |
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White Boy Rick | Detective Jackson | 2018-09-14 |
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Irreplaceable You | Benji | 2018-02-16 |
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Hotel Artemis | Lev / Honolulu | 2018-06-07 |
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Person to Person | Mike | 2017-07-28 |
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Crown Heights | Massup | 2017-08-25 |
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Puerto Ricans in Paris | Larry Labels | 2015-06-12 |
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My America | 2014-07-04 | |
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Last Night at the Lobster |