Brian Tyree Henry 1982 43
Brian Tyree Henry 1982 43
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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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