---
name: "Corey Hawkins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/corey-hawkins"
fi1m_id: "corey-hawkins"
imdb_id: "nm3659660"
tmdb_id: 1154054
wikidata_id: "Q20740941"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "22 October 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 10
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 10
updated: "2026-10-05T14:17:42.836518+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."
---

# Corey Hawkins

## Identity

Corey Hawkins

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/corey-hawkins
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** corey-hawkins
- **IMDb ID:** nm3659660
- **TMDB ID:** 1154054
- **Wikidata ID:** Q20740941
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey_Hawkins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20740941, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3659660/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1154054

Actor. Born 22 October 1988 in Arlington, Texas, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 October 1988, Arlington, Texas, USA
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Also known as:** Corey Antonio Hawkins, 柯瑞·霍金斯
- **Frequently works with:** [Denzel Washington](https://film.one/person/denzel-washington.md), [John David Washington](https://film.one/person/john-david-washington.md), [Samuel L. Jackson](https://film.one/person/samuel-l-jackson.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 10 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 73 (4), 2020s 70 (6)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 72 across 10 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 7 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 2 of 9 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 6, Fantasy 3, Action 2, Adventure 2, Crime 2, History 2
- **Screen time:** 20 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,657m across 8 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey_Hawkins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20740941, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3659660/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1154054

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Straight Outta Compton*](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md) (76), [*The Piano Lesson*](https://film.one/film/the-piano-lesson.md) (65)
- **Apple TV:** [*The Tragedy of Macbeth*](https://film.one/film/the-tragedy-of-macbeth.md) (80)
- **HBO Max:** [*The Color Purple*](https://film.one/film/the-color-purple-2023.md) (73)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Crime 101*](https://film.one/film/crime-101.md) (67)
- **Peacock:** [*The Last Voyage of the Demeter*](https://film.one/film/the-last-voyage-of-the-demeter.md) (55)

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

## Fi1m on Corey Hawkins

> Corey Hawkins makes serious men good company, most clearly as Dr. Dre in *Straight Outta Compton*. We like him when there is room for humour; the preaching in *The Piano Lesson* is less rewarding.

In the studio scenes of *Straight Outta Compton* (2015), Corey Hawkins lets Dr. Dre concentrate on the music without becoming solemn about it. He can be serious and still be someone the others enjoy having around. Alongside O’Shea Jackson Jr. as Ice Cube and Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, he helps make the musicians seem comfortable enough together to be funny. We warmed to him because those exchanges let Dre enjoy himself without making him look foolish. It remains our clearest recommendation for his screen work.

The lead in *24: Legacy* (2017) followed that breakthrough, but the subsequent films have not settled into one kind of part. *In the Heights* (2021) casts him as Benny; Joel Coen’s *The Tragedy of Macbeth* (2021) gives him Macduff. His stage work has continued alongside the musical and literary adaptations. We would rather see him keep making those changes than spend a career being asked to reproduce Dre, though the less successful performances help explain what was so appealing about that first substantial impression.

*The Piano Lesson* (2024) is a useful caution. Malcolm Washington has a fine cast, but Hawkins’s Avery preaches at the furniture, and the emphatic delivery tells us too little about the man. Samuel L. Jackson’s Doaker makes the piano’s history compelling by telling it plainly, while Michael Potts’s Wining Boy conveys a life’s disappointment in a few minutes at the keys. Against that company, Hawkins’s insistence feels less revealing. The cramped parlour and slow middle hour are not his responsibility, but his performance gives us less reason to look past them.

His work also includes Polybus in Christopher Nolan’s *The Odyssey* (2026) and Tillman in Bart Layton’s *Crime 101* (2026). We recommend the former with a caveat about its long middle stretch; the latter’s capable cast cannot quite disguise how familiar the heist is. Neither displaces Dre as the part that best explains our interest in Hawkins, particularly his ability to keep musical concentration sociable. Start with *Straight Outta Compton*; the studio scenes are worth sitting through the business disputes.

## 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).

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

## On Fi1m (10)

- *Crime 101* (2026), Fi1m 67, as Tillman — [page](https://film.one/film/crime-101.md)
- *The Odyssey* (2026), Fi1m 83, as Polybus — [page](https://film.one/film/the-odyssey.md)
- *The Piano Lesson* (2024), Fi1m 65, as Avery — [page](https://film.one/film/the-piano-lesson.md)
- *The Color Purple* (2023), Fi1m 73, as Harpo — [page](https://film.one/film/the-color-purple-2023.md)
- *The Last Voyage of the Demeter* (2023), Fi1m 55, as Clemens — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-voyage-of-the-demeter.md)
- *The Tragedy of Macbeth* (2021), Fi1m 80, as Macduff — [page](https://film.one/film/the-tragedy-of-macbeth.md)
- *BlacKkKlansman* (2018), Fi1m 78, as Kwame Ture — [page](https://film.one/film/blackkklansman.md)
- *Kong: Skull Island* (2017), Fi1m 71, as Houston Brooks — [page](https://film.one/film/kong-skull-island.md)
- *Straight Outta Compton* (2015), Fi1m 76, as Dr. Dre — [page](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md)
- *The Walking Dead* (2010), Fi1m 68, as Heath — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-walking-dead.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

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

- *The Odyssey* (2026), as Polybus — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-odyssey.md)
- *Crime 101* (2026), as Tillman — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/crime-101.md)
- *The Man in My Basement* (2025), as Charles Blakey · Executive Producer
- *The Piano Lesson* (2024), as Avery — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-piano-lesson.md)
- *The Color Purple* (2023), as Harpo — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/the-color-purple-2023.md)
- *The Last Voyage of the Demeter* (2023), as Clemens — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-voyage-of-the-demeter.md)
- *Poker Face* (2023), series, as Bill Jackson — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/poker-face.md)
- *Survive* (2022), as Paul
- *The Tragedy of Macbeth* (2021), as Macduff — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-tragedy-of-macbeth.md)
- *In the Heights* (2021), as Benny
- *Survive* (2020), series, as Paul Hart
- *6 Underground* (2019), as Seven
- *Georgetown* (2019), as Daniel Volker
- *BlacKkKlansman* (2018), as Kwame Ture — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/blackkklansman.md)
- *The Raid* (2017), as Eric Carter
- *Kong: Skull Island* (2017), as Houston Brooks — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/kong-skull-island.md)
- *24: Legacy* (2017), series, as Eric Carter
- *Straight Outta Compton* (2015), as Dr. Dre — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md)
- *Non-Stop* (2014), as Travis Mitchell
- *Romeo and Juliet* (2014), as Tybalt
- *Iron Man 3* (2013), as Navy Op — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/iron-man-3.md)
- *Golden Boy* (2013), series, as Evander
- *Wu Is Dead* (2011), as Chauncey
- *The Walking Dead* (2010), series, as Heath — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-walking-dead.md)
- *Death of a Salesman*, Actor
- *Nightwatching*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Corey Hawkins](https://film.one/media/person/6475/gallery-548399099328.jpg) Corey Hawkins — Adam Chitayat, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Corey_Hawkins_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_8.jpg/1280px-Corey_Hawkins_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_8.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Présentation du film BlacKkKlansman au festival de Cannes : Damaris Lewis, Jasper Pääkkönen, John David Washington, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace, Spike Lee, Adam (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/6475/gallery-a471712d50ef.jpg) Présentation du film BlacKkKlansman au festival de Cannes : Damaris Lewis, Jasper Pääkkönen, John David Washington, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace, Spike Lee, Adam (2018) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Cannes_2018_14.jpg/1280px-Cannes_2018_14.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Corey Hawkins speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "24: Legacy", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attr](https://film.one/media/person/6475/gallery-d22f3f8c5fd3.jpg) Corey Hawkins speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "24: Legacy", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attr — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Corey_Hawkins_%2828072008884%29.jpg/1280px-Corey_Hawkins_%2828072008884%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Corey Hawkins speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "24: Legacy", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attr](https://film.one/media/person/6475/gallery-6143a1568e90.jpg) Corey Hawkins speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "24: Legacy", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attr — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Corey_Hawkins_%2828404655920%29.jpg/1280px-Corey_Hawkins_%2828404655920%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Corey Hawkins](https://film.one/media/person/6475/gallery-77efd3371e34.jpg) Corey Hawkins — Image via TMDB
- ![Corey Hawkins](https://film.one/media/person/6475/gallery-29c94bf8d8f2.jpg) Corey Hawkins — Image via TMDB
- ![Corey Hawkins](https://film.one/media/person/6475/gallery-5d786b72221e.jpg) Corey Hawkins — Image via TMDB
- ![Corey Hawkins speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Kong: Skull Island", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Ple](https://film.one/media/person/6475/gallery-b0cc30ca8218.jpg) Corey Hawkins speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Kong: Skull Island", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Ple — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Corey_Hawkins_%2828503303822%29.jpg/1280px-Corey_Hawkins_%2828503303822%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Corey Hawkins speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Kong: Skull Island", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Ple](https://film.one/media/person/6475/gallery-370e631b652f.jpg) Corey Hawkins speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Kong: Skull Island", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Ple — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Corey_Hawkins_%2828503308612%29.jpg/1280px-Corey_Hawkins_%2828503308612%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Corey Hawkins](https://film.one/media/person/6475/gallery-f9a3d07f0046.jpg) Corey Hawkins — Image via TMDB

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