1. Jonathan Michael Majors was born on September 7,1989 and is an American actor.
28 Facts About Jonathan Majors
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In March 2023, Jonathan Majors was arrested for physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.
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Jonathan Majors is currently serving a 52-week in-person domestic violence intervention program.
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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 solace and a "safe space" in the world of theatre, which he joined after watching Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight.
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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 a Master of Fine Arts 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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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 debuted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ series Loki as "He Who Remains" and portrayed Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
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Jonathan Majors then appeared as Victor Timely in Loki season 2.
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Jonathan Majors was originally set to appear in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars.
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Marvel met with actor Colman Domingo about potentially joining the MCU and replacing Jonathan Majors as Kang, though Domingo declined, as he did not want to be cast as a replacement for another actor; he would eventually be cast as Norman Osborn in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
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Jonathan Majors was dropped from a planned film about Dennis Rodman titled 48 Hours in Las Vegas.
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On March 25,2023, Jonathan Majors placed a 911 emergency call requesting medical assistance to his New York residence after he claimed he had arrived home and found his former girlfriend unresponsive.
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Jonathan Majors was later arrested on assault, strangulation and harassment charges, stemming from a domestic dispute with Jabbari the prior evening who "sustained minor injuries to her head and neck and was removed to an area hospital in stable condition," according to the NYPD after their preliminary investigation.
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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 recast.
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On November 29,2023, the assault trial began, with Jonathan Majors pleading not guilty to misdemeanor assault and harassment charges.
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Jonathan Majors was acquitted on another charge of assault and one of aggravated harassment.
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In June 2023, Rolling Stone published a report alleging a pattern of abusive behavior by Jonathan Majors dating back to 2013, when he was studying at the Yale School of Drama.
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Jonathan Majors's attorney denied the allegations, noting that the Rolling Stone report was effectively hearsay.