
Brian Tyree Henry
Acting
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).
Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Law & Order

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Good Wife

This Is Us

BoJack Horseman

How to Get Away with Murder

The Oscars

Joker

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Atlanta

Dope Thief

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Room 104

Bullet Train

Vice Principals

Transformers One

Eternals

The Knick

Godzilla vs. Kong

Class of '09

Causeway

Widows

Superintelligence
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