Michael B. Jordan

Acting · Born 1987-02-09 in Santa Ana, California, USA

Biography

Michael Bakari Jordan (/bɑːˈkɑːri/ bah-KAR-ee; born February 9, 1987) is an American actor, producer, and director. His accolades include a Producers Guild Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards. Jordan was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2020 and 2023, People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2020, and The New York Times ranked him 15th on its list of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century. Jordan initially broke out in television, playing Wallace in the first season of the HBO crime drama series The Wire (2002). He starred in the ABC soap opera All My Children (2003–2006) and the NBC sports drama series Friday Night Lights (2009–2011). He later starred in and produced…

Filmography

• Fruitvale Station as Oscar Grant
• Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox as Cyborg / Victor Stone (voice)
• Sinners as Smoke / Stack
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Killmonger
• Creed as Adonis Johnson
• Black Panther as Erik Killmonger
• Creed II as Adonis Johnson
• Just Mercy as Bryan Stevenson
• Tom Clancy's Without Remorse as John Kelly
• Creed III as Adonis Creed

TV

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Morris
• The Wire as Wallace
• Cold Case as Michael Carter
• Friday Night Lights as Vince Howard
• Love, Death & Robots as Terence
• What If...? as Killmonger (voice)
• The Boondocks as Pretty Boy Flizzy (voice)
• Bones as Perry Wilson
• Lie to Me as Key
• House as Will Westwood