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name: "Brandon Victor Dixon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brandon-victor-dixon"
fi1m_id: "brandon-victor-dixon"
imdb_id: "nm3436127"
tmdb_id: 1998462
wikidata_id: "Q4957111"
roles: []
born: "23 September 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-30T20:33:27.511664+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."
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# Brandon Victor Dixon

## Identity

Brandon Victor Dixon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brandon-victor-dixon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brandon-victor-dixon
- **IMDb ID:** nm3436127
- **TMDB ID:** 1998462
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4957111
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Victor_Dixon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4957111, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3436127/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1998462

Actor. Born 23 September 1981 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.

## Details

- **Born:** 23 September 1981, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Victor_Dixon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4957111, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3436127/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1998462

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Modern Love*](https://film.one/tv/modern-love.md) (61)

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## Biography

Brandon Victor Dixon (born 23 September 1981) is an American actor, singer and theatrical producer. He originated the roles of Harpo in the 2005 Broadway musical *The Color Purple* and Berry Gordy Jr. in *Motown: The Musical* (2013), and played Eubie Blake in *Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed* (2016). He later assumed the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway production of *Hamilton*.

Dixon played Hayward Patterson in *The Scottsboro Boys* both off-Broadway and in London's West End. As a producer, his credits include the Broadway revivals *Of Mice and Men* (2014) and *Hedwig and the Angry Inch* (2014), the latter of which won the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for best revival of a musical. In 2018 he portrayed Judas Iscariot in the NBC live concert version of *Jesus Christ Superstar*, receiving a Primetime Emmy nomination. He appeared as Daniel in the 2019 series *Modern Love*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Modern Love* (2019), Fi1m 61, as Daniel — [page](https://film.one/tv/modern-love.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *Your Monster* (2024), as Will
- *88* (2023), as Femi Jackson · Producer
- *The Theme From...: Songs Written for Film* (2020), Actor
- *Jule Styne and His Many Lyricists: Distant Melody* (2020), Actor
- *Rodgers, Rodgers & Guettel: Statues and Stories* (2020), Actor
- *Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt: Simple Little Things* (2020), Actor
- *George Gershwin: Bidin' My Time* (2020), Actor
- *Modern Love* (2019), series, as Daniel — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/tv/modern-love.md)
- *Rent* (2019), as Tom Collins
- *Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert* (2018), as Judas Iscariot
- *Bagdad, Florida* (2017), Actor
- *This Is Us* (2016), series, as Kent (Weather Man) — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/this-is-us.md)
- *Power* (2014), series, as Deleterious "Terry" Silver
- *The Warrior and the Savior* (2013), as Umthwalo
- *The Good Wife* (2009), series, as Clerk — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-wife.md)
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Dix

## Gallery

- ![Brandon Victor Dixon](https://film.one/media/person/4124493/gallery-28795841f8e2.png) Brandon Victor Dixon — The Official Tony Awards Youtube Channel, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/BrandonVictorDixonTonyAwards2019_%28cropped%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Brandon Victor Dixon](https://film.one/media/person/4124493/gallery-f332e07b7558.jpg) Brandon Victor Dixon — Image via TMDB
- ![Brandon Victor Dixon](https://film.one/media/person/4124493/gallery-ee8c269ded56.jpg) Brandon Victor Dixon — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical 2016: Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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