Biography
Corey Antonio Hawkins is an American actor. He graduated from the Juilliard School in New York.
Hawkins rose to prominence with his role as Heath in the television series The Walking Dead (2015–2016) and as Dr. Dre in the film Straight Outta Compton (2015). He received Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for the latter and for his performance in BlacKkKlansman (2018). On Broadway he starred in Six Degrees of Separation (2017) and Topdog/Underdog (2022), earning Tony Award nominations for both.
His other film roles include Kong: Skull Island (2017), In the Heights (2021) and The Color Purple (2023). He appeared as Avery in The Piano Lesson (2024), Tillman in Crime 101 (2026) and Polybus in The Odyssey (2026).
