Brian Tyree Henry
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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Credits
- 2025 · Dope Thief as Ray Driscoll
- 2024 · The Fire Inside as Jason Crutchfield
- 2024 · Transformers One as D-16 / Megatron (voice)
- 2024 · Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire as Bernie Hayes
- 2023 · The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story as Jefferson Davis (voice)
- 2023 · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Jeff Morales (voice)
- 2023 · Class of '09 as Tayo Michaels
- 2023 · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie as Self
- 2023 · The Magician's Elephant as Leo Matienne (voice)
- 2022 · Causeway as James
- 2022 · The Jennifer Hudson Show as
- 2022 · The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
- 2022 · Sherri as Self - Guest
- 2022 · Bullet Train as Lemon
- 2022 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals as Self - Phastos
- 2021 · Eternals as Phastos
- 2021 · Vivo as Dancarino (voice)
- 2021 · The Woman in the Window as Detective Little
- 2021 · The Outside Story as Charles Young
- 2021 · Godzilla vs. Kong as Bernie Hayes
- 2020 · Superintelligence as Dennis Caruso
- 2020 · The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Prior Walter
- 2019 · Joker as Carl (Arkham Clerk)
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · Don't Let Go as Garret Radcliff
- 2019 · Child's Play as Detective Mike Norris
- 2019 · The Cold Open as
- 2018 · If Beale Street Could Talk as Daniel Carty
- 2018 · Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as Jefferson Davis (voice)
- 2018 · Widows as Jamal Manning
- 2018 · Busy Tonight as Self - Guest
- 2018 · White Boy Rick as Detective Jackson
- 2018 · Family as Pete
- 2018 · Hotel Artemis as Lev / Honolulu
- 2018 · Lie Detector as Self
- 2018 · Irreplaceable You as Benji
- 2017 · Drop the Mic as Self
- 2017 · Crown Heights as Massup
- 2017 · Room 104 as Arnold
- 2017 · Person to Person as Mike
- 2016 · This Is Us as Ricky
- 2016 · Atlanta as Alfred 'Paper Boi' Miles
- 2016 · Vice Principals as Tavis Brown
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · How to Get Away with Murder as Frank's Public Defender
- 2014 · BoJack Horseman as Cooper Wallace, Jr. / Strib (voice)
- 2014 · The Knick as Larkin
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · The Amazing Race Canada as Self
- 2009 · The Good Wife as Randall Simmons
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 1990 · Law & Order as Ben
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse as Jeff Morales (voice)
- 2015 · Puerto Ricans in Paris as Larry Labels
- Future · Panic Carefully as
- Future · Golden as
- Future · Last Night at the Lobster as
- 2014 · My America as