Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Biography
Kelvin Harrison Jr. is an American actor who entered film with small roles in Ender's Game and 12 Years a Slave, both from 2013. Born in New Orleans, he first trained in studio engineering and marketing, then relocated to Los Angeles for acting lessons. His breakout came as Travis in the 2017 horror film It Comes at Night, which earned him a Gotham Award nomination for breakthrough actor. He earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for the title role in Luce (2019), and his lead performance in Waves (2019) brought a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination. In Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) he played Fred Hampton, and the ensemble won a Screen Actors Guild Award. He later appeared as B. B. King in Elvis (2022), starred in Chevalier (2022), and voiced young Scar in Mufasa: The Lion King (2024).
32years old
Turns 33 on July 23in 254 days
- Born New Orleans
- Star sign: LeoFirst day of the sign, on the Cancer cusp
- Also credited as Kelvin Jr. Harrison
Movie Career
- Films
- 18
- Career span
- 8 years2017 to 2025
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First role
In 2012 Harrison was cast in Ender's Game, a film based on the 1985 novel. He became a day-player and worked with Viola Davis, Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley; he says Davis pushed him to take acting more seriously.
Getting ready for a role
To get ready for The High Note and its soundtrack, Harrison spent 45 minutes daily with a vocal coach to widen his range, and he also took guitar lessons.
Kelvin Harrison Jr. movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Mufasa: The Lion King2024 Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musicalas Takavoice
IMDb rating 6.685K votes
Most often with
Trey Edward Shults directed two of these films. Rob Morgan appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Rob Morgan's page
Naomi Watts's page
Jennifer Ehle's page
Neal Huff's page
Anika Noni Rose's page
Marsha Stephanie Blake's page
All films by Trey Edward Shults
Also two films together4 more actors
- John David WashingtonMonster (2021) and Monsters and Men (2018)
- Jasmine Cephas JonesThe Photograph (2020) and Monsters and Men (2018)
- Chanté AdamsThe Photograph (2020) and Monsters and Men (2018)
- David GarelikGully (2021) and Waves (2019)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Kelvin Harrison Jr.'s films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.1 billion
11 of the 18 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 18 films: 11 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 1 never in cinemas; 1 streaming, short cinema run; 3 figure not found.
- 11Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 1Never in cinemas
- 1Streaming, short cinema run
- 3Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$723M67.4% of the total
- 2$289M26.9% of the total
- 3$21M1.9% of the total
- 4$19M1.8% of the total
- 5$6.4M0.6% of the total
- 6$4.2M0.4% of the total
- 7$2.9M0.3% of the total
- 8$2.6M0.2% of the total
$4.6 millionfrom the other 3 films with a worldwide figure, 0% of the total