Jonathan Majors landed his first onscreen role while at Yale School of Drama in the ABC miniseries When We Rise (2017), portraying LGBTQ+ activist Ken Jones. The film also featured fellow School of Drama graduate Mary-Louise Parker.
Majors went on to feature in Hostiles (2017), White Boy Rick (2018) and Out of Blue (2018).
He first rose to fame after starring in the independent feature film The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019), and in 2020 garnered worldwide attention for starring in the HBO television series Lovecraft Country, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
The actor recently starred in numerous major studio films. He played Damian Anderson in “Creed III”. Majors also starred as the Marvel villain Kang the Conquerer in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.”
Majors’ latest picture, which originally premiered at Sundance, is dubbed “Magazine Dreams,” which has been acquired by Searchlight Pictures, and is set to come to theaters on Dec 8, 2023. The actor has also signed to join Amazon Studios’ “Da Understudy.”