Jonathan Michael Majors was born on September 7,1989 and is an American actor.
19 Facts About Jonathan Majors
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Jonathan Majors was born in Santa Barbara County, California, and spent his early years living with his mother, who is a pastor, his older sister, and younger brother on the Vandenberg military base, as his father was in the US Air Force.
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Jonathan Majors attended Cedar Hill High School and graduated from Duncanville High School in 2008.
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Jonathan Majors has described himself as having had a "difficult" childhood, growing up with drug dealers and murderers for neighbors who wore ankle monitors on their release from prison.
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Jonathan Majors eventually found a "safe space" in the world of theatre, where he found some solace and joined after watching Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, in which he felt Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker to resemble the criminals with moralistic dualities he grew up with for his complexity of good and evil, leading him to become an actor so he could inspire others like Ledger did to him.
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Jonathan Majors studied for his bachelor's degree at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and later attended the Yale School of Drama; he graduated with an MFA degree in 2016.
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Jonathan Majors secured his first onscreen role in the ABC miniseries When We Rise while still a student at Yale.
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That same year, Jonathan Majors appeared in his first feature film role as Corporal Henry Woodson in the revisionist Western film Hostiles, written and directed by Scott Cooper.
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In 2019, Jonathan Majors rose to prominence after starring in Joe Talbot's critically acclaimed independent feature film The Last Black Man in San Francisco, for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
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Jonathan Majors's performance was praised by critics: Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called his performance "a mournful heartbreaker", while Rolling Stone described his turn as "both deeply sensitive and charmingly left-of-center".
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Jonathan Majors appeared in three other 2019 film releases: Captive State, Gully, and Jungleland.
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In 2020, Jonathan Majors starred alongside Chadwick Boseman and Delroy Lindo in Spike Lee's war drama film Da 5 Bloods, which was released on Netflix.
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Jonathan Majors debuted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ series Loki as "He Who Remains".
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In 2021, Jonathan Majors starred as the lead actor in Jeymes Samuel's directorial debut film The Harder They Fall, acting alongside Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, Regina King and Delroy Lindo.
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Jonathan Majors portrayed Kang the Conqueror and several other variants of the character in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
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Jonathan Majors is set to appear in Loki season 2, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, and Avengers: Secret Wars.
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On March 25,2023, Jonathan Majors was arrested on assault, strangulation and harassment charges, stemming from a domestic dispute with a thirty-year-old woman, who "sustained minor injuries to her head and neck and was removed to an area hospital in stable condition", according to New York City police.
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Several weeks after his arrest, Jonathan Majors was dropped as a client by both the management company Entertainment 360 and the public relations firm the Lede Company.
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Jonathan Majors was expected to star in and executive produce an upcoming adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel The Man in My Basement, but he was cut from the film and his role will be re-cast.