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Kelvin Harrison Jr.

Born 1994-07-23
📍 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Kelvin Harrison Jr. (born July 23, 1994) is an American actor. He received such accolades as a Screen Actors Guild Award and nominations for a British Academy Film Award, a Gotham Award, and an Independent Spirit Award.

He began his career with small roles in the 2013 films Ender's Game and 12 Years a Slave. His breakthrough performance came as Travis in the 2017 horror film It Comes at Night, and in 2019, he gained wider recognition for his work in Luce and Waves. He then appeared in films such as The High Note (2020), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), Cyrano (2021) and Elvis (2022). He plays the starring role in the 2022 film Chevalier.

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Filmography 42

Samo Lives
as Jean-Michel Basquiat
2026
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
as Beetee Latier
2026
O'Dessa
as Euri Dervish
2025
Mufasa: The Lion King
as Taka (voice)
2024
Chevalier
as Joseph
2023
Just a Boy From Tupelo: Bringing Elvis to the Big Screen
as Self - ‘B.B. King’
2023
Bigger Than Life - The Making of Elvis
as Self
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
2022
Elvis
as B.B. King
2022
Cyrano
as Christian de Neuvillette
2021
Monster
as Steve Harmon
2021
Gully
as Jesse
2021
The Trial of the Chicago 7
as Fred Hampton
2020
The High Note
as David Cliff
2020
The Photograph
as Andy Morrison
2020
Waves
as Tyler
2019
Godfather of Harlem
as Teddy Greene
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
Luce
as Luce Edgar
2019
Bolden
as Frankie Dusen
2019
J.T. LeRoy
as Sean
2019
The Wolf Hour
as Freddie
2019
Monsters and Men
as Zyrick
2018
Assassination Nation
as Mason
2018
Jinn
as Tahir
2018
Mudbound
as Weeks
2017
It Comes at Night
as Travis
2017
Genius
as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
2017
Shots Fired
as Joey Campbell (uncredited)
2017
The Birth of a Nation
as Simon
2016
StartUp
as Toussant "Touie" Dacey
2016
Roots
as Winslow
2016
A Sort of Homecoming
as Eliot
2015
Dancer and the Dame
as Kenny
2015
Dancer and the Dame
as Kenny Bassett
2015
Deluge
as Kareem
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
Chicago P.D.
as Michael Ellis
2014
Ender's Game
as Salamander (uncredited)
2013
12 Years a Slave
as Victim 2
2013
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2003
Behind the Lines
as Self