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André Holland

Highest Rated: 99% Selma (2014)

Lowest Rated: 38% Black or White (2014)

Birthday: Dec 28, 1979

Birthplace: Bessemer, Alabama, USA

Actor André Holland displayed a wide range of talent, from charismatic leaders to sensitive, disappointed young men, in such diverse productions as "The Knick" (Cinemax, 2014-15), "Selma" (2014) and "Moonlight" (2016). Born December 28, 1979 in Bessemer, Alabama, he was the son of a salesman and a steel plant employee, and would have gone into law had he not taken a role in a Birmingham production of "Oliver!" at the age of 11. Holland studied drama at John Carroll High School and later, at Florida State University and New York University, from which he received a master's degree in fine arts in 2006. That same year, he began working on television and stage, scoring critical praise for playing three characters in the play "Blue Door" and making his television debut in an episode of "Law and Order" (NBC, 1990-2010). Featured turns in Spike Lee's "Miracle at St. Anna" (2008) and other features soon followed, as did "The Brother/Sister Plays" (2009), a trilogy of dramas that began Holland's working relationship with playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney. Acclaim for his stage work led to more substantive roles on television, including that of White House Press Secretary Marshall Malloy, who was carrying on an affair with the President's daughter (Martha MacIsaac), in the short-lived sitcom "1600 Penn" (NBC, 2012-13), and Dr. Algernon C. Edwards, a 19th-century surgeon who endured racial prejudice, on "The Knick" (Cinemax, 2014-15). The exposure afforded from these roles led to major supporting turns in features like "42" (2013), as African-American sportswriter Wendell Smith, and "Selma" (2014), for which he received an NAACP Image Award nomination for playing civil rights activist Andrew Young. In 2016, he appeared in "Moonlight" (2016), director Barry Jenkins' film version of McCraney's autobiographical play "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue." The drama, which cast Holland as the adult Kevin, first love to the film's troubled protagonist, Chiron/Little, earned exceptional reviews from critics and award shows alike. Holland compounded the success with a supporting role in "American Horror Story: Roanoke" (FX, 2016) and by joining the cast of Ava DuVernay's highly anticipated film adaptation of "A Wrinkle in Time" (2018).

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Highest rated movies

99% 86% Selma Watchlist 98% 79% Moonlight Watchlist 95% 92% Exhibiting Forgiveness Watchlist
93% 79% Sugar
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91% 86% Passing Watchlist 91% 49% High Flying Bird Watchlist 82% 63% Bones and All Watchlist
80% 85% 42
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74% 66% Shirley Watchlist
54% 48% Small, Beautifully Moving Parts
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
95% 92% Exhibiting Forgiveness Tarrell (Character) $494.4K 2024
74% 66% Shirley Walter Fauntroy (Character) - 2024
82% 63% Bones and All Unknown (Character) $7.8M 2022
No Score Yet 73% Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches Narrator - 2022
91% 86% Passing Brian (Character) - 2021
91% 49% High Flying Bird Ray Burke (Character),
Executive Producer
- 2019
No Score Yet 75% Battle at Big Rock Unknown (Character) - 2019
43% 26% A Wrinkle in Time Principal Jenkins (Character) $100.5M 2018
98% 79% Moonlight Kevin (Character) $27.9M 2016
38% 65% Black or White Reggie Davis (Character) $21.6M 2014
99% 86% Selma Andrew Young (Character) $52.1M 2014
80% 85% 42 Wendell Smith (Character) $95.1M 2013
54% 48% Small, Beautifully Moving Parts Leon (Character) $6.7K 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Us: A Love Story Unknown (Character) - 2009
93% 79% Sugar Brad (Character) $1.1M 2008

TV

Credit
86% 79% Terminator Zero Malcolm Lee (Character) 2024
73% 83% The Big Cigar Huey P. Newton (Character) 2024
No Score Yet 62% Killing County Narrator 2023
69% 77% The Eddy Elliot Udo (Character) 2020
88% 79% Castle Rock Henry Deaver (Character) 2018
77% 66% American Horror Story Matt Miller (Character) 2016
92% 96% The Knick Dr. Algernon Edwards (Character) 2014-2015
41% 33% 1600 Penn Marshall (Character) 2012-2013
88% 95% Burn Notice Dion Carver (Guest Star) 2011
No Score Yet 40% Friends With Benefits Julian "Fitz" Fitzgerald (Character) 2011