Brian Tyree Henry
Date of birth: 1982-03-31
Place of birth: Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Μπράιαν Ταϊρί Χένρι, 브라이언 타이리 헨리, ブライアン・タイリー・ヘンリー, 布萊恩·泰瑞·亨利
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.
Movie Credits
Eternals
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The Magician's Elephant
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Transformers One
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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals
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Join director Chloe Zhao and the Cast of Eternals as they recount their experiences during the makin
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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The Fire Inside
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The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
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The Cold Open
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Crown Heights
2017-08-25
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My America
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White Boy Rick
2018-09-14
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Widows
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Person to Person
2017-07-28
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If Beale Street Could Talk
2018-12-14
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018-12-06
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Hotel Artemis
2018-06-07
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Irreplaceable You
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Family
2018-08-19
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The Woman in the Window
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Child's Play
2019-06-19
Karen, a single mother, gifts her son Andy a Buddi doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinist
Godzilla vs. Kong
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Superintelligence
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When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Pete
The Outside Story
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After locking himself out of his apartment, an introverted, heartbroken editor finds himself on an e
Joker
2019-10-01
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Causeway
2022-10-28
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Don't Let Go
2019-08-30
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Bullet Train
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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
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An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fu
Vivo
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Last Night at the Lobster
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Panic Carefully
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie
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Writing, pre-production and the challenges of crafting a sequel to a game-changing film, as told by
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The Trainer
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Jack Flex is broke, buff, and wildly delusional—but he’s got a dream: to sell his absurd invention,