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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.
Brian Tyree Henry
Vulcan
for Vulcan in Venus: The Architecture of Desire
Suggested by mr95
She is the most misunderstood force in the cosmos. She is not beauty's servant. She is beauty's sovereign. A character-centered limited series placing Venus — radically misunderstood by popular culture — at its center. The Roman Venus has specific dimensions that make her more complex than Aphrodite: she is the divine ancestor of the Julian family, the protector of Rome itself, and a goddess whose domain extends to gardens, nature, and the prosperity of the city. This series explores her across multiple storylines: her complicated marriage to Vulcan, her love for Mars (which in Roman tradition has political as well as passionate dimensions), her involvement in Psyche's trials (examined here as a genuine divine judgment rather than simple jealousy), and her role as Aeneas's divine mother. The central argument: Venus is not superficial vanity but the foundational force without which nothing in the cosmos reaches toward anything else. She is the reason. S4E1 — What Venus Actually Is An episode structured as Venus correcting every misapprehension about her domain — not vanity but foundational force. The divine court's response to her argument is the episode's comedy and its philosophy. S4E5 — Psyche's Trials Venus sets Psyche's tasks — examined here not as petty revenge but as genuine divine judgment about whether this mortal woman is who Cupid believes her to be. S4E10 — The Architecture Series finale: All the love stories resolve simultaneously. Venus alone at the episode's end — watching, satisfied. Not with having won anything but with having been, finally, understood.
