Jonathan Majors

Majors' professional trajectory is one of the more interesting case studies in how prestige film and prestige television can work together to build a name fast. His feature debut came with *The Last Black Man in San Francisco* (2019), Joe Talbot's lyrical drama about displacement and belonging in the Bay Area — Majors plays Montgomery Allen, the best friend at the story's emotional center, and he's quietly devastating in it. *Da 5 Bloods* followed in 2020, with Spike Lee casting him alongside Delroy Lindo in a Vietnam-era ensemble that earned serious awards attention. But the role that put him in front of the widest audience was Atticus Freeman in HBO's *Lovecraft Country* (2020). The show — a horror-fantasy series that used H.P. Lovecraft's mythology to examine anti-Black racism in 1950s America — gave Majors a full season to build a character rather than a cameo, and he ran with it. A Primetime Emmy nomination followed (Wikipedia). It's the kind of performance that makes casting directors pay attention in a different way. Marvel was already watching. Majors appeared as He Who Remains — a variant of the time-traveling villain Kang the Conqueror — in the *Loki* season one finale (2021), a scene-stealing turn that set up what was supposed to be a multi-film arc. He reprised the role as the primary antagonist in *Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania* (2023). Alongside those MCU commitments, he played real-life figures in *Devotion* (2022), portraying Navy aviator Jesse L. Brown, and took on the role of Dame Anderson — spelled "Damian" in some sources — as the villain opposite Michael B. Jordan in *Creed III* (2023). His MCU future was terminated by Marvel following his December 2023 conviction (Wikipedia). The 2025 drama *Magazine Dreams*, also released under the title *Killian Maddox*, marks his post-conviction return to a lead role, with Majors also credited as executive producer (Perplexity).