---
name: "Jason Mitchell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jason-mitchell"
fi1m_id: "jason-mitchell"
imdb_id: "nm4207146"
tmdb_id: 1115984
wikidata_id: "Q20895485"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "5 January 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T14:17:42.839187+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."
---

# Jason Mitchell

## Identity

Jason Mitchell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jason-mitchell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jason-mitchell
- **IMDb ID:** nm4207146
- **TMDB ID:** 1115984
- **Wikidata ID:** Q20895485
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Mitchell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20895485, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4207146/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1115984

Actor. Born 5 January 1987 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 January 1987, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- **Active:** 2015–2017
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 acting, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Mitchell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20895485, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4207146/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1115984

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Straight Outta Compton*](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md) (76)

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

## Biography

Jason Mitchell (born 5 January 1987) is an American actor from New Orleans, Louisiana. He made his film debut in a minor role in *Texas Killing Fields* (2011) and appeared in small parts in *Contraband* (2012) and *Broken City* (2013).

Mitchell is best known for portraying Eazy-E in the 2015 biopic *Straight Outta Compton*. He has also appeared in *Keanu* (2016), *Mudbound* (2017), *Detroit* (2017), *Kong: Skull Island* (2017), *The Disaster Artist* (2017) and *The Mustang* (2019). On television he starred in the first two seasons of *The Chi* (2018–2019). For *Straight Outta Compton* he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (2) — the average rests on these

- *Kong: Skull Island* (2017), Fi1m 71, as Glenn Mills — [page](https://film.one/film/kong-skull-island.md)
- *Straight Outta Compton* (2015), Fi1m 76, as Eazy-E — [page](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Disaster Artist* (2017), Fi1m 74, as Nate (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-disaster-artist.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *The Late Night Creep* (2025), Actor
- *Black Heat* (2025), as Malik
- *Scarborn* (2024), as Domingo
- *Family Portrait* (2023), Actor
- *Call Her King* (2023), as Sean Samuels
- *Everything Is Both* (2023), as Cam
- *For the Love of Money* (2021), as Gregory
- *Zola* (2021), as Dion
- *The Mustang* (2019), as Henry
- *Tyrel* (2018), as Tyler
- *Forever* (2018), series, as Andre
- *Freedom Fighters: The Ray* (2018), as Black Condor / John Trujillo (voice)
- *SuperFly* (2018), as Eddie
- *The Chi* (2018), series, as Brandon
- *Freedom Fighters: The Ray* (2017), series, as John Trujillo / Black Condor (voice)
- *Mudbound* (2017), as Ronsel Jackson
- *Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams* (2017), series, as Lenny
- *Detroit* (2017), as Carl Cooper
- *The Disaster Artist* (2017), as Nate (uncredited) — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-disaster-artist.md)
- *Kong: Skull Island* (2017), as Glenn Mills — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/kong-skull-island.md)
- *Barry* (2016), as PJ
- *Keanu* (2016), as Bud
- *Vincent N Roxxy* (2016), as Cordell
- *Straight Outta Compton* (2015), as Eazy-E — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md)
- *Broken City* (2013), as Cast Friend #1
- *Dragon Eyes* (2012), as J-Dog
- *Contraband* (2012), as Walter
- *Texas Killing Fields* (2011), as 7-Eleven Cashier
- *Mercy Mercy Me*, as Khaos
- *High Rollers*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Kong: Skull Island", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego](https://film.one/media/person/123244/gallery-a90235f7a0b0.jpg) Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Kong: Skull Island", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Brie_Larson_%26_Tom_Hiddleston_%2827993562923%29.jpg/1280px-Brie_Larson_%26_Tom_Hiddleston_%2827993562923%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jason Mitchell speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Kong: Skull Island", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Pl](https://film.one/media/person/123244/gallery-874b6c1938dc.jpg) Jason Mitchell speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Kong: Skull Island", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Pl — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Jason_Mitchell_%2827992957634%29.jpg/1280px-Jason_Mitchell_%2827992957634%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jason Mitchell speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Kong: Skull Island", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Pl](https://film.one/media/person/123244/gallery-1c8d788d60e4.jpg) Jason Mitchell speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Kong: Skull Island", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Pl — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Jason_Mitchell_%2827993613653%29.jpg/1280px-Jason_Mitchell_%2827993613653%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jason Mitchell speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Kong: Skull Island", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Pl](https://film.one/media/person/123244/gallery-1c52f18c6aba.jpg) Jason Mitchell speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Kong: Skull Island", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Pl — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Jason_Mitchell_%2828577477196%29.jpg/1280px-Jason_Mitchell_%2828577477196%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jason Mitchell](https://film.one/media/person/123244/gallery-00fcda198540.jpg) Jason Mitchell — Image via TMDB
- ![Jason Mitchell](https://film.one/media/person/123244/gallery-abcbc1e7661c.jpg) Jason Mitchell — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Jason_Mitchell_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Jason_Mitchell_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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