Other film and television credits include Aquaman opposite Jason Momoa for DC Comics and Warner Bros. In 2020 he co-starred amongst an all-star cast in Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7, in which he played Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale. Next up he will be reprising his role as Black Manta in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom in theaters March 2023. He recently starred in Michael Bay‘s Ambulance, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in The Matrix Resurrections, led by original director/writer Lana Wachowski and in the Jordan Peele-produced Candyman for MGM/Universal. Manhattan in HBO’s groundbreaking series, Watchmen. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is well known for his Emmy Award-winning performance as Cal Abar/Dr. Hawkins is a graduate of The Juilliard School’s drama program and is a recipient of the prestigious John Houseman Prize, given to one Juilliard student that has demonstrated exceptional ability in classical theater. He will be seen as Harpo in the upcoming film adaptation of The Color Purple, produced by Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg, and Oprah Winfrey, and in the lead role in the film, Last Voyage of the Demeter. Hawkins also starred in the Quibi series, Survive, opposite Sophie Turner, for which he earned a 2020 Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. On television, Hawkins starred as Eric Carter in FOX’s 24: Legacy opposite Miranda Otto and Jimmy Smits, as well as on the hit show The Walking Dead. Jackson Universal Pictures’ Non-Stop Winter’s Tale for Warner Bros. Other film credits include Michael Bay’s 6 Underground, opposite Ryan Reynolds and Melanie Laurent Christoph Waltz’s directorial debut, Georgetown, opposite Waltz, Annette Bening, and Vanessa Redgrave as civil rights leader Stokley Carmichael in Spike Lee’s Blackkklansman Kong: Skull Island opposite Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John Goodman, and Samuel L. Dre in the 2015 film, Straight Outta Compton. His breakout film performance was as hip-hop legend Dr.

Chu’s feature film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical, In The Heights. Recently, Hawkins portrayed Macduff in Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, opposite Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, and Brendan Gleeson, among others, for which he received the African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Award for Best Supporting Actor. A Tony Award nominee for his 2017 performance in John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation, Corey Hawkins made his Broadway debut as Tybalt in David Leveaux’s revival of Romeo and Juliet opposite Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad.

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