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Corey Antonio Hawkins (born October 22, 1988) is an American actor. He rose to prominence for his role in the TV series The Walking Dead (2015–2016) and his portrayal of Dr. Dre in the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton, the latter of which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. He's also known for his performances on Broadway, starring in Six Degrees of Separation (2017) and Topdog/Underdog (2022), which earned him nominations for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. That same year, Hawkins starred in the Fox network series 24: Legacy (2017), along with Jordan Vogt-Roberts' monster film Kong: Skull Island. In 2018, he was featured in Spike Lee's biographical crime-comedy BlacKkKlansman, which earn
Set during Alexander the Great's eastern campaigns (~330 BC), The Companion follows Marcus, 28, a Black man raised by a Macedonian military family — the Agrianes clan who served Philip II and continued with Alexander — as a Companion cavalry officer. Marcus is entirely Macedonian in language, culture, and identity, bearing a Greek name in the Macedonian tradition, speaking Macedonian Greek, trained in the cavalry tactics of Alexander's elite force. He is one of a diverse multinational force that Alexander's campaigns assembled. During the conquest of Persia, Marcus encounters Daria, a Persian noblewoman from the ancient city of Persepolis — a woman whose world is being absorbed by the very army Marcus serves. Their relationship is one of the most politically fraught possible kinds: love between conqueror and conquered, honest on both sides in ways that the historical moment makes almost impossible. The series is a meditation on war, love, and what loyalty means when the empire you serve is also the catastrophe of someone you love. Episode 1 — Persepolis The army enters Persepolis. Marcus encounters Daria in the library — she is removing scrolls before the soldiers reach them. He helps her. Neither knows what this means yet. Episode 5 — The Language Marcus learning Persian. Daria teaching him. The intimacy of language instruction in the middle of a war. Episode 10 — The Covenant Series finale: Marcus choosing, at personal cost to his military standing, to protect Daria's family. What he gives up and what he gains are equal and opposite.
