--- name: "Byron Bowers" canonical: "https://film.one/person/byron-bowers" fi1m_id: "byron-bowers" imdb_id: "nm2720892" tmdb_id: 1687573 wikidata_id: "Q20630606" roles: ["Actor"] born: "24 November 1978" reviewed_on_fi1m: 5 average_fi1m_score: 73 average_as: "actor" average_over: 5 updated: "2026-09-27T08:57:02.030816+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." --- # Byron Bowers ## Identity Byron Bowers - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/byron-bowers - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** byron-bowers - **IMDb ID:** nm2720892 - **TMDB ID:** 1687573 - **Wikidata ID:** Q20630606 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Bowers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20630606, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2720892/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1687573 Actor. Born 24 November 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 24 November 1978, Atlanta, Georgia, USA - **Active:** 2021–present - **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 5 titles - **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 72 across 5 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Crime 3, Drama 3, Comedy 2, Thriller 2, Mystery 1 - **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Bowers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20630606, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2720892/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1687573 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Kimi*](https://film.one/film/kimi.md) (77), [*Irma Vep*](https://film.one/tv/irma-vep-2022.md) (74) - **Apple TV:** [*Lady in the Lake*](https://film.one/tv/lady-in-the-lake-2024.md) (57) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Byron Bowers > Byron Bowers is a stand-up who plays supporting men in other people's stories, and he plays them small: patient, slightly hurt, waiting for someone else to move. It works when the part has something under it and disappears when it does not. There is a scene in *Kimi* (2022) where Terry asks Angela to walk with him to a food truck across the street. It is a few yards. She gets as far as the door. Byron Bowers plays the hurt small, a man who has asked this before and has already decided not to make a scene about it, and it is the plainest, truest thing in a film that is otherwise busy being a thriller. That is his habit on screen. He does not push. He stands where he is put and lets you notice him. He came to acting late and sideways. He began stand-up in 2005, moved to Los Angeles in 2008 and spent years on comedy programmes, *The Eric Andre Show* and *The Pete Holmes Show* among them, before *KUSO* (2017) and a supporting part as Percy in *Honey Boy* (2019). Since then the work has been steady and mostly supporting: *Concrete Cowboy* (2020), *No Sudden Move* (2021) and *Kimi* for Steven Soderbergh, and on television *The Chi* (2018), *Irma Vep* (2022), *Swarm* (2023) and *Lady in the Lake* (2024). His stand-up runs alongside it, and his material, about mental health, family, race and belief, is more personal than anything he has yet been asked to do in front of a camera. The 2022 special was directed by Alma Har'el, who has now worked with him three times. The two parts we have reviewed show both sides of the habit. In *Kimi* Soderbergh and Koepp give Terry very little and Bowers fills it; the threshold scene moved us more than a scene about a food truck has any right to, because he lets the disappointment show and then puts it away before Kravitz can see it. In *Irma Vep* Herman exists so that Los Angeles can ring Paris and be laughed at, and the Hollywood satire is the broadest thing in the series. Bowers cannot do much with a character who is there to be a punchline about franchises, and he does not try to. When the writing is thin, he is thin with it. He has said that he went from joke-telling to storytelling and noticed how differently it lands. On stage he has had room to prove it. On screen he has not, quite; the parts have been decent, the scenes short, and nobody has yet built a film around the patience he showed at Angela's door. Watch *Kimi* for the scene that suggests what he might do with a whole evening, and wait to see whether anyone gives him one. ## Biography Byron Bowers is an American comedian, writer and actor. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to pursue comedy. He is known for film roles including Percy in *Honey Boy* (2019), Rome in *Concrete Cowboy* (2020), Maurice in *No Sudden Move* (2021) and Terry Hughes in *Kimi* (2022). On television he has played Meldrick in *The Chi* (2018) and appeared in *Irma Vep* (2022) and *Swarm* (2023). Bowers has performed stand-up at festivals such as SXSW and Oddball Comedy Fest, and released the special *Byron Bowers: Spiritual N****a* in 2022. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (5) - *Wonder Man* (2026), Fi1m 82, as DeMarr Davis — [page](https://film.one/tv/wonder-man.md) - *Lady in the Lake* (2024), Fi1m 57, as Slappy — [page](https://film.one/tv/lady-in-the-lake-2024.md) - *Irma Vep* (2022), Fi1m 74, as Herman — [page](https://film.one/tv/irma-vep-2022.md) - *Kimi* (2022), Fi1m 77, as Terry Hughes — [page](https://film.one/film/kimi.md) - *No Sudden Move* (2021), Fi1m 76, as Maurice — [page](https://film.one/film/no-sudden-move.md) ## Complete filmography (14) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Wonder Man* (2026), series, as DeMarr Davis — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/wonder-man.md) - *Lady in the Lake* (2024), series, as Slappy — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/tv/lady-in-the-lake-2024.md) - *Big Bruh* (2023), as The Body Stretcher / Officer Jeff (voice) - *Swarm* (2023), series, as George Clemons - *Byron Bowers: Spiritual N***a* (2022), Writer, Executive Producer - *Irma Vep* (2022), series, as Herman — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/irma-vep-2022.md) - *Kimi* (2022), as Terry Hughes — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/kimi.md) - *Ten Year Old Tom* (2021), series, as Nelson (voice) - *No Sudden Move* (2021), as Maurice — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/no-sudden-move.md) - *Concrete Cowboy* (2020), as Rome - *Honey Boy* (2019), as Percy - *The Chi* (2018), series, as Meldrick - *Kuso* (2017), as Smoking Roach - *The 4th* (2016), as Tim --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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