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Brian Tyree Henry (born March 31, 1982) is an American actor. He rose to prominence for his role as rapper Alfred "Paper Boi" Miles in the FX comedy-drama series Atlanta (2016–2022), for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Henry had a guest role in This Is Us in 2017 and had his film breakthrough in 2018 with roles in Steve McQueen's heist film Widows and Barry Jenkins' romantic drama If Beale Street Could Talk. He has since appeared in Child's Play (2019), Joker (2019), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Bullet Train (2022), and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024). He portrayed Phastos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals (2021). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a grieving man in the drama film Causeway (2022). He also voiced Jefferson Davis in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and Megatron in Transformers One (2024). Henry has also appeared on stage, making his debut performance in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Romeo and Juliet (2007) and acting in various plays at the Public Theatre before appearing in the original Broadway cast of The Book of Mormon (2011). In 2014, he appeared in the off-Broadway musical The Fortress of Solitude. For his performance in the 2018 Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan's play Lobby Hero, he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Tyree Henry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Nile Chronicles opens with its most cosmically ambitious installment — the daily journey of Ra, the sun god, whose solar barque crosses the sky by day and descends through the twelve hours of the Duat by night, battling Apophis (the serpent of chaos) to ensure the sun rises again. The series treats Ra not as a simple solar deity but as the most exhausted, most committed divine being in Egyptian mythology — he has made this journey every single day since creation and will make it every day until the end of the cosmos, because if he fails, everything ends. This is not dramatized as glory. It is portrayed as the specific, profound weight of the most necessary work imaginable. The series also covers Ra's original kingship over gods and men, his aging (in the myth where humanity plots against him as he grows old), and the creation of Sekhmet from his Eye — one of Egyptian mythology's most morally complex stories.
