--- name: "Jharrel Jerome" canonical: "https://film.one/person/jharrel-jerome" fi1m_id: "jharrel-jerome" imdb_id: "nm7851611" tmdb_id: 1664716 wikidata_id: "Q27442165" roles: ["Actor"] born: "9 October 1997" reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 80 average_as: "actor" average_over: 4 updated: "2026-09-23T23:51:15.673496+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." --- # Jharrel Jerome ## Identity Jharrel Jerome - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jharrel-jerome - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** jharrel-jerome - **IMDb ID:** nm7851611 - **TMDB ID:** 1664716 - **Wikidata ID:** Q27442165 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jharrel_Jerome, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27442165, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7851611/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1664716 Actor. Born 9 October 1997 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 9 October 1997, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA - **Active:** 2016–present - **Also known as:** 賈雷爾·傑羅姆, ژارل ژروم - **Primetime Emmy Awards:** 1 Emmy (1 won) - **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 4 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 86 (2), 2020s 74 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 80 to 81 across 4 titles - **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 1, Adventure 1, Animation 1, Crime 1, Science Fiction 1 - **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $756m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jharrel_Jerome, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27442165, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7851611/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1664716 ## Coming up - *Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse* (2027-06-17), as Miles G. Morales (voice) ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*Moonlight*](https://film.one/film/moonlight.md) (89) - **Netflix:** [*When They See Us*](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md) (84) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Jharrel Jerome > Jharrel Jerome does his best work small: a ducked head, a stammer he never uses for sympathy, a question left unasked. *When They See Us* showed how far that can carry a performance, and nearly everything since has asked him to be bigger. Korey Wise sits across from his mother in a prison visiting room and cannot bring himself to ask her the question he has been saving up. Jharrel Jerome plays the scene with almost nothing: the head ducks, the stammer catches, the hands do not know where to go. It moved us more than we were ready for when we reviewed Ava DuVernay's *When They See Us* (2019), and it still does, because Jerome refuses to make Korey easy to love. He plays a boy who walked into a precinct to keep a friend company and never properly walked out, and not once does he ask us to feel sorry for him. The pity arrives on its own. He is the only one of the five played by a single actor across the whole span, from sixteen to the man Korey becomes, and that is the fact people quote about the performance. It is the least interesting thing about it. The years are done with posture and voice rather than prosthetics, and it works because Jerome cares more about what Korey knows at each stage than how old he looks. The fourth hour belongs to him. In a series we found weaker whenever it stopped to make a speech, he is the one element that never makes one. He had been on screen for three years by then. He was cast in Barry Jenkins's *Moonlight* (2016) while still at college, as Kevin at sixteen, in a film built from three chapters and full of good small parts. We did not single him out at the time, and it would be dishonest to pretend now that we saw it coming; he was one careful presence among several. Television followed, with *Mr. Mercedes* (2017–2019), then *Concrete Cowboy* (2020), and then DuVernay gave him four hours and he used every one. Since then the parts have grown, and in one case literally. He plays Cootie, a thirteen-foot teenager, in Boots Riley's *I'm a Virgo* (2023); he voices a Miles Morales in *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023); he plays Anthony Robles, a wrestler born with one leg, in *Unstoppable* (2024). He has said that what excites him about acting is transforming, and we believe him. We have not reviewed those films, so we will judge them lightly, but the reservation others have raised about *Unstoppable* rings true from a distance: a biopic that needs its subject to be inspiring leaves the actor less room to be anything else. The transformations are the sales pitch. The restraint is the talent. Jerome is best when the camera is not waiting for him to do anything, and we would happily watch him sit in another small room, with another question he cannot ask, before we watch him climb anything at all. ## Biography Jharrel Jerome is an American actor. He made his film debut as Kevin age 16 in Barry Jenkins’s *Moonlight* (2016). Jerome was born on 9 October 1997 in the Bronx, New York City. He trained at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and studied acting at Ithaca College. He gained wider recognition for his portrayal of Korey Wise in Ava DuVernay’s miniseries *When They See Us* (2019), for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. His other credits include *Concrete Cowboy* (2020), voice work as Miles G. Morales in *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), *I’m a Virgo* (2023) and *Unstoppable* (2024). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com.* ## On Fi1m (4) - *Task* (2025), Fi1m 67, as Jordan Barnes — [page](https://film.one/tv/task.md) - *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), Fi1m 82, as Miles G. Morales (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse.md) - *When They See Us* (2019), Fi1m 84, as Korey Wise — [page](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md) - *Moonlight* (2016), Fi1m 89, as Kevin Age 16 — [page](https://film.one/film/moonlight.md) ## Complete filmography (17) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse* (2027), as Miles G. Morales (voice) - *Task* (2025), series, as Jordan Barnes — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/task.md) - *Unstoppable* (2024), as Anthony Robles - *Full Circle* (2023), series, as Aked - *I'm a Virgo* (2023), series, as Kuti 'Cootie' · Executive Producer - *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), as Miles G. Morales (voice) — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse.md) - *Monster* (2021), as Osvaldo Cruz - *Concrete Cowboy* (2020), as Smush - *Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"* (2019), as Jimmy Pierson - *Robu* (2019), as Rob/Robu - *When They See Us* (2019), series, as Korey Wise — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md) - *Selah and the Spades* (2019), as Maxxie Ayoade - *First Match* (2018), as Omari - *Mr. Mercedes* (2017), series, as Jerome Robinson - *Tales* (2017), series, as Deacon - *Moonlight* (2016), as Kevin Age 16 — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/moonlight.md) - *Wheels* (2016), as Narrator (voice) ## Gallery - ![Star of Moonlight, Mr. Mercedes, and When They See Us. NYC May '19. (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/124555/gallery-9f77ad5d1488.jpg) Star of Moonlight, Mr. Mercedes, and When They See Us. NYC May '19. (2019) — Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Jharrel_Jerome_%2847948009887%29.jpg/1280px-Jharrel_Jerome_%2847948009887%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jharrel Jerome](https://film.one/media/person/124555/gallery-60436ab7bf0a.jpg) Jharrel Jerome — Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Jharrel_Jerome_%2847948009887%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Jharrel_Jerome_%2847948009887%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jharrel Jerome](https://film.one/media/person/124555/gallery-c73cdb42c859.jpg) Jharrel Jerome — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Primetime Emmy Awards — 1 won - 2019: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (won), for *When They See Us* ### Other awards — 2 won - Critics' Choice Awards 2020: Best Movie/Miniseries Actor (won), for *When They See Us* - NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special 2020: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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