Brian Tyree Henry
Acting
Born: Mar 31, 1982
From: Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Credits: 30 titles
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse | Jefferson Morales (voice) | 2027 | — |
| Transformers One | D-16 / Megatron (voice) | 2024 | 7.967 |
| The Fire Inside | Jason Crutchfield | 2024 | 7.283 |
| Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire | Bernie Hayes | 2024 | 7.045 |
| The Magician's Elephant | Leo Matienne (voice) | 2023 | 6.793 |
| Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Jeff Morales (voice) | 2023 | 8.332 |
| The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story | Jefferson Davis (voice) | 2023 | 7.059 |
| Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals | Self - Phastos | 2022 | 7.1 |
| Causeway | James | 2022 | 6.486 |
| Bullet Train | Lemon | 2022 | 7.412 |
| Eternals | Phastos | 2021 | 6.773 |
| The Woman in the Window | Detective Little | 2021 | 5.978 |
| Godzilla vs. Kong | Bernie Hayes | 2021 | 7.537 |
| The Outside Story | Charles Young | 2021 | 6.6 |
| Superintelligence | Dennis Caruso | 2020 | 5.944 |
| The Cold Open | 2019 | 7.5 | |
| Child's Play | Detective Mike Norris | 2019 | 5.966 |
| Joker | Carl (Arkham Clerk) | 2019 | 8.126 |
| Don't Let Go | Garret Radcliff | 2019 | 6.895 |
| White Boy Rick | Detective Jackson | 2018 | 6.4 |
| Widows | Jamal Manning | 2018 | 6.488 |
| If Beale Street Could Talk | Daniel Carty | 2018 | 6.895 |
| Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Jefferson Davis (voice) | 2018 | 8.393 |
| Hotel Artemis | Lev / Honolulu | 2018 | 6.07 |
| Irreplaceable You | Benji | 2018 | 6.938 |
| Family | Pete | 2018 | 6.5 |
| Crown Heights | Massup | 2017 | 6.6 |
| Person to Person | Mike | 2017 | 5.2 |
| Puerto Ricans in Paris | Larry Labels | 2015 | 5.7 |
| My America | 2014 | — | |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1982 |
| From | Fayetteville, North Carolina, … |