---
name: "Ashton Sanders"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ashton-sanders"
fi1m_id: "ashton-sanders"
imdb_id: "nm5480894"
tmdb_id: 1152019
wikidata_id: "Q26902009"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 October 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T07:55:26.589463+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ashton Sanders

## Identity

Ashton Sanders

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ashton-sanders
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ashton-sanders
- **IMDb ID:** nm5480894
- **TMDB ID:** 1152019
- **Wikidata ID:** Q26902009
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Sanders, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26902009, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5480894/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1152019

Actor. Born 24 October 1995 in Carson, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 October 1995, Carson, California, USA
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Also known as:** Άστον Σάντερς
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 82 (2), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 82 to 81 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, History 2, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $273m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Sanders, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26902009, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5480894/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1152019

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Moonlight*](https://film.one/film/moonlight.md) (89)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ashton Sanders is an American actor. He was born on 24 October 1995 in Carson, California, and attended Grand Arts High School in Los Angeles before studying at the Theatre School at DePaul University, which he left after three years to pursue acting full time.

Sanders made his screen debut in the 2013 film *The Retrieval*. He had a small role in *Straight Outta Compton* (2015) and gained recognition for his performance as teenage Chiron in *Moonlight* (2016). Subsequent credits include *The Equalizer 2* (2018), *Native Son* (2019), *Captive State* (2019), *All Day and a Night* (2020), *Judas and the Black Messiah* (2021), *Wu-Tang: An American Saga* (2019–2023) as Bobby Diggs, and *Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody* (2022) as Bobby Brown.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Judas and the Black Messiah* (2021), Fi1m 80, as Jimmy Palmer — [page](https://film.one/film/judas-and-the-black-messiah.md)
- *Moonlight* (2016), Fi1m 89, as Chiron — [page](https://film.one/film/moonlight.md)
- *Straight Outta Compton* (2015), Fi1m 76, as Kid — [page](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Corporate Retreat* (2026), as Carl
- *Brothers Under Fire* (2026), as Carson
- *Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody* (2022), as Bobby Brown
- *Invasion* (2021), series, as Joel
- *Judas and the Black Messiah* (2021), as Jimmy Palmer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/judas-and-the-black-messiah.md)
- *All Day and a Night* (2020), as Jah
- *Wu-Tang: An American Saga* (2019), series, as Bobby Diggs
- *Captive State* (2019), as Gabriel Drummond
- *Native Son* (2019), as Bigger Thomas
- *Curtains Up* (2018), Actor
- *The Equalizer 2* (2018), as Miles Whittaker
- *Dead Women Walking* (2018), as Troy
- *We Home* (2018), as Javan
- *The Kids Are Alright* (2018), Actor
- *Moonlight* (2016), as Chiron — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/moonlight.md)
- *The Last Virgin in LA* (2016), as Josh
- *Straight Outta Compton* (2015), as Kid — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md)
- *The Retrieval* (2013), as Will
- *Baby, You're a Star*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Ashton Sanders](https://film.one/media/person/124553/gallery-add963e6fea3.jpg) Ashton Sanders — Gordon  Correll, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Ashton_Sanders.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Toronto International Film Festival 2016](https://film.one/media/person/124553/gallery-6e0489741c45.jpg) Toronto International Film Festival 2016 — Gordon  Correll, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Barry_Jenkins_with_Andre_Holland_and_Ashton_Sanders_%2832333936873%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ashton Sanders](https://film.one/media/person/124553/gallery-5f256d21a001.jpg) Ashton Sanders — Image via TMDB

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