Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1982-03-31 (Age: 44)
Place of Birth
Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Brian Tyree Henry
Biography
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.
Filmography (36)
Untitled The Batman Sequel
2027
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
2027
Panic Carefully
2027
The Fire Inside
2024
The Trainer
2024
Transformers One
2024
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
2024
The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story
2023
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie
2023
The Magician's Elephant
2023
Causeway
2022
Bullet Train
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals
2022
