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Jonathan Majors biography

American actor, Jonathan Michael Majors was born on September 7th, 1989 in Lompoc, California in the United States of America.

Because Jonathan Majors father was in the Air Force, Majors spent his early years living on the Vandenberg military installation with his mother, a minister, his older sister, and his younger brother.

Jonathan Majors
Jonathan Majors

On September 10, 2017, it was also shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. Thereafter, roles in the 2018 movies White Boy Rick and Out of Blue appeared. At the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, both of these movies were screened, with the latter going head-to-head for the Platform Award.

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Jonathan Majors gained notoriety in 2019 after playing in Joe Talbot’s acclaimed independent drama The Last Black Man in San Francisco, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.

On January 26, 2019, the movie had its international debut at the Sundance Film Festival. On June 7, 2019, A24 made it available in the US.

One of the top movies of 2019 according to former US President Barack Obama. Critics appreciated Majors’ portrayal, describing it as “a sad heartbreaker” by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times and as “both deeply empathetic and wonderfully left-of-center” by Rolling Stone.

Jonathan Majors

Additionally, Majors starred in the 2019 movies Captive State, Gully, and Jungleland. In Spike Lee’s war drama Da 5 Bloods, which was made in 2020 and was made available on Netflix, Majors appeared alongside Chadwick Boseman and Delroy Lindo.

He gained more recognition that same year for his role as Atticus Freeman in the HBO television series Lovecraft Country. Critics gave his performance in Lovecraft Country positive reviews, and Vogue called him “the emotional center of the production.”

He  made his acting debut as “He Who Remains” in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ series Loki. Alongside Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, Regina King, and Delroy Lindo, Majors played the major role in The Harder They Fall, the directorial debut film by Jeymes Samuel.

In 2023, he starred in Magazine Dreams and Creed III as Damian ‘Dame’ Anderson. In Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, and Avengers: Secret Wars, he will play Kang the Conqueror.

After that, Majors resided in Georgetown, Texas, a suburb of Austin, before spending his formative years in Cedar Hill, Texas. He transferred from Cedar Hill High School, and in 2008 he earned his diploma from Duncanville High School.

He had a challenging upbringing because he had newly released felons as neighbors, including drug dealers, murders, or murderers wearing ankle monitors. Majors perceived some moral complexity in his neighbors as a result of both their negative and positive ideals.

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Majors struggled as a teen, having been expelled from his home and arrested for shoplifting. Jonathan Majors was also suspended from high school after getting into a brawl. At one point, Majors lived in his car and worked two jobs to make ends meet.

After watching Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, where he felt Heath Ledger’s portrayal of the Joker to resemble the criminals with moralistic dualities he grew up with for his complexity of good and evil, he eventually found a “safe space” in the world of theater, where he found some solace and joined. This inspired him to become an actor so he could inspire others as Ledger did to him.

Jonathan Majors

Jonathan Majors studied for his bachelor’s degree at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and afterward attended the Yale School of Drama; he finished with an MFA degree in 2016.

Jonathan Majors career

While still a Yale student, he  landed his first on-screen role in the ABC drama When We Rise. Ken Jones, a real-life LGBT activist, was portrayed in the series by actor Majors, who visited with Jones in person as part of his preparation for the job.

In the same year, Majors made his debut in a major motion picture as Corporal Henry Woodson in Scott Cooper’s revisionist Western movie Hostiles. On September 2, 2017, the movie made its global premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.

Jonathan Majors net worth

Majors has a net worth estimated to be about $2 million.

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