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Brian Tyree Henry
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 (2016–202…
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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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Movies and shows, newest first
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2028
The Batman: Part II
Movie
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2027
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Movie Jefferson Morales (voice)
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2027
Panic Carefully
Movie
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2026
Bass X Machina
TV show Bass Reeves (voice)
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2026
March Forth
Movie
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2025
Dope Thief
TV show Ray Driscoll
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2024
The Fire Inside
Movie Jason Crutchfield
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2024
The Trainer
Movie Brian Tyree Henry
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2024
Transformers One
Movie D-16 / Megatron (voice)
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2024
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Movie Bernie Hayes
- 2023
- 2023
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2023
The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story
Movie Jefferson Davis (voice)
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2023
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Movie Jeff Morales (voice)
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2023
Class of '09
TV show Tayo Michaels
- 2023
More credits
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2023
The Magician's Elephant
Movie Leo Matienne (voice)
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2022
Causeway
Movie James
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
Bullet Train
Movie Lemon
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2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals
Movie Self - Phastos
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2021
Eternals
Movie Phastos
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2021
Vivo
Movie Dancarino (voice)
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2021
The Woman in the Window
Movie Detective Little
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2021
The Outside Story
Movie Charles Young
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2021
Godzilla vs. Kong
Movie Bernie Hayes
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2020
Superintelligence
Movie Dennis Caruso
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2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Movie Prior Walter
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2019
Joker
Movie Carl (Arkham Clerk)
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
Don't Let Go
Movie Garret Radcliff
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2019
Child's Play
Movie Mike
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2019
The Cold Open
Movie
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2018
If Beale Street Could Talk
Movie Daniel Carty
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2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Movie Jefferson Davis (voice)
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2018
Widows
Movie Jamal Manning
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2018
Busy Tonight
TV show Self - Guest
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2018
White Boy Rick
Movie Detective Jackson
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2018
Family
Movie Pete
