Cast & creator
Brian Tyree Henry
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Tyree Henry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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film credits
35
television credits
75
1949–2028 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (77)
Showing 77 of 77 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
Law & Order
Ben
1990
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self
2022
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
The Good Wife
Randall Simmons
2009
Sherri
Self - Guest
2022
This Is Us
Ricky
2016
How to Get Away with Murder
Frank's Public Defender
2014
BoJack Horseman
Cooper Wallace, Jr. / Strib (voice)
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Jeff Morales (voice)
2023
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Jefferson Davis (voice)
2018
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
Joker
Carl (Arkham Clerk)
2019
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
Self - Guest Judge
2012
The Oscars
Self
1953
Bullet Train
Lemon
2022
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Bernie Hayes
2024
Atlanta
Alfred 'Paper Boi' Miles
2016
Room 104
Arnold
2017
Transformers One
D-16 / Megatron (voice)
2024
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED
Self - Guest Judge
2012
Godzilla vs. Kong
Bernie Hayes
2021
Drop the Mic
Self
2017
Eternals
Phastos
2021
The Knick
Larkin
2014
Child's Play
Mike
2019
Class of '09
Tayo Michaels
2023
Vice Principals
Tavis Brown
2016
Dope Thief
Ray Driscoll
2025Dope Thief
Executive Producer
2025
Widows
Jamal Manning
2018
Busy Tonight
Self - Guest
2018
The Amazing Race Canada
Self
2013
The Batman: Part II
2028
If Beale Street Could Talk
Daniel Carty
2018
Hotel Artemis
Lev / Honolulu
2018
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Jefferson Morales (voice)
2027
The Emmy Awards
Self
1949
White Boy Rick
Detective Jackson
2018
Vivo
Dancarino (voice)
2021
The Woman in the Window
Detective Little
2021
The Fire Inside
Jason Crutchfield
2024
Don't Let Go
Garret Radcliff
2019
Superintelligence
Dennis Caruso
2020
The Magician's Elephant
Leo Matienne (voice)
2023
Causeway
James
2022
Bass X Machina
Bass Reeves (voice)
2026Bass X Machina
Executive Producer
2026
Irreplaceable You
Benji
2018
The Trainer
Brian Tyree Henry
2024
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals
Self - Phastos
2022
Puerto Ricans in Paris
Larry Labels
2015
Family
Pete
2018
The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story
Jefferson Davis (voice)
2023
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: "I'mma Do My Own Thing" - Interdimensional Destiny
Self
2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Cast
Self
2023
Panic Carefully
2027Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie
Self
2023
Person to Person
Mike
2017Last Night at the Lobster
The Cold Open
2019
The Outside Story
Charles Young
2021
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Prior Walter
2020
My America
2014Running
Crown Heights
Massup
2017