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Brian Tyree Henry

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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.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

As Jefferson Davis (voice)

Bullet Train

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

As Jeff Morales (voice)

Joker

As Carl (Arkham Clerk)

Eternals

As Phastos

Transformers One

As D-16 / Megatron (voice)

Godzilla vs. Kong

As Bernie Hayes

Dope Thief

As Ray Driscoll

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Criminal Alliances

A chain tracing the anti-hero ensemble film from its war-movie origins through heist, western, and genre mutations to the modern comic-book iteration, examining...

8 films

When Worlds Collide: The Magic of Live-Action Animation

From Disney's pioneering blend to modern masterpieces, explore films that seamlessly merge reality and animation, celebrating the creative spark when two worlds...

8 films

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