Emmy and Tony Award nominee Brian Tyree Henry stars alongside Donald Glover in the award-winning FX series Atlanta, a role for which he received Emmy and MTV Movie & TV Award nominations. Henry will appear in highly anticipated forthcoming films such as Disney’s The Woman in the Window, HBO Max’s Superintelligence, Warner Brothers’ Godzilla vs. Kong, and Marvel’s The Eternals. He appeared in Hotel Artemis alongside Jodie Foster, Steve McQueen’s Widows, Oscar-winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk. On television, he has appeared in Room 104, Drunk History, How To Get Away With Murder, Vice Principals, Boardwalk Empire, The Knick, The Good Wife, and Law & Order. In 2017 he guest-starred on NBC’s This Is Us, for which he earned an Emmy nomination.

Henry originated the role of The General in the critically acclaimed Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, for which he received rave reviews. In Spring 2018 he returned to Broadway in Kenneth Lonergan’s Tony-nominated play Lobby Hero, and received Tony, Drama Desk, and Drama League Award nominations. Henry’s theater credits include The Fortress of Solitude and The Brother/Sister Plays/The Brothers Size at The Public Theater, as well as Romeo and Juliet and Talk About Race at New York Stage and Film and The Public. A graduate of Atlanta’s Morehouse College, Henry received his MFA from Yale’s School of Drama. He currently resides in New York.