---
name: "Jimmie Fails"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jimmie-fails"
fi1m_id: "jimmie-fails"
imdb_id: "nm8629338"
tmdb_id: 1774398
wikidata_id: "Q65548506"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 November 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T01:28:06.972617+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."
---

# Jimmie Fails

## Identity

Jimmie Fails

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jimmie-fails
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jimmie-fails
- **IMDb ID:** nm8629338
- **TMDB ID:** 1774398
- **Wikidata ID:** Q65548506
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Fails, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65548506, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8629338/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1774398

Actor. Born 10 November 1994 in San Francisco, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 November 1994, San Francisco, California, USA
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Fails, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65548506, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8629338/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1774398

## Streaming the US now

- **MUBI:** [*Nickel Boys*](https://film.one/film/nickel-boys.md) (85)

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

## Biography

Jimmie Fails is an American actor. Born on 10 November 1994 in San Francisco, California, his feature film debut was the title role in the semi-autobiographical *The Last Black Man in San Francisco* (2019), which he co-wrote.

He has appeared as Max in *Pieces of a Woman* (2020) and as Mr. Hill in *Nickel Boys* (2024). In 2019, Fails and director Joe Talbot formed the production company Longshot Features.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Nickel Boys* (2024), Fi1m 85, as Mr. Hill — [page](https://film.one/film/nickel-boys.md)
- *Pieces of a Woman* (2020), Fi1m 66, as Max — [page](https://film.one/film/pieces-of-a-woman.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Newborn* (2026), as Keith Newborn
- *You'll Lose a Good Thing* (2025), as Magus
- *Borderline* (2025), as DeVante Rhodes
- *Sweet Talkin’ Guy* (2025), Actor
- *Wish You Were Here* (2025), as Seth
- *Nickel Boys* (2024), as Mr. Hill — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/nickel-boys.md)
- *Slow Pulse* (2021), as Bernard
- *Pieces of a Woman* (2020), as Max — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/pieces-of-a-woman.md)
- *Exhaust* (2020), as Jimmie
- *The Last Black Man in San Francisco* (2019), as Jimmie Fails · Story
- *American Paradise* (2017), as Jimmie Fails

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