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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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From Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA

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Joker 2019
Carl (Arkham Clerk)
Widows 2018
Jamal Manning
Child's Play 2019
Detective Mike Norris
Hotel Artemis 2018
Lev / Honolulu
Transformers One 2024
D-16 / Megatron (voice)
White Boy Rick 2018
Detective Jackson
Atlanta 2016 - 2022
Alfred 'Paper Boi' Miles
Vivo 2021
Dancarino (voice)

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2027 Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse as Jeff Morales (voice)

2025 Last Night at the Lobster

2025 Golden

2025 Panic Carefully

2025 Dope Thief as Ray Driscoll Executive Producer

2024 The Fire Inside as Jason Crutchfield

2024 The Trainer as Brian Tyree Henry

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 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 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 Don't Let Go as Garret Radcliff

2019 Child's Play as Detective Mike Norris

2019 The Cold Open

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 White Boy Rick as Detective Jackson

2018 Family as Pete

2018 Hotel Artemis as Lev / Honolulu

2018 Irreplaceable You as Benji

2017 Crown Heights as Massup

2017 Person to Person as Mike

2016 Atlanta as Alfred 'Paper Boi' Miles

2015 Puerto Ricans in Paris as Larry Labels

2014 My America

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