Brian Tyree Henry
Acting
Born 1982-03-31
Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
72 credits
Awards
Nominated for 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 nominated
- 2023 Best Supporting Actor Nominated Causeway
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
57 credits
Law & Order
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sherri
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
The Good Wife
The Jennifer Hudson Show
The Late Late Show with James Corden
How to Get Away with Murder
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
This Is Us
BoJack Horseman
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Joker
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Bullet Train
Transformers One
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Eternals
Atlanta
The Oscars
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Godzilla vs. Kong
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Room 104
The Amazing Race Canada
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED
Dope Thief
Vice Principals
The Knick
Class of '09
Child's Play
Widows
Drop the Mic
Busy Tonight
White Boy Rick
Hotel Artemis
Causeway
The Woman in the Window
Vivo
Superintelligence
If Beale Street Could Talk
Don't Let Go
The Fire Inside
The Emmy Awards
The Magician's Elephant
Irreplaceable You
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals
Bass X Machina
Family
Puerto Ricans in Paris
Person to Person
The Trainer
Other credits
3 credits
Producing
2 credits
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