---
name: "Jonathan Majors"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jonathan-majors"
fi1m_id: "jonathan-majors"
imdb_id: "nm3718007"
tmdb_id: 1674162
wikidata_id: "Q31970512"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 September 1989"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 66
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-22T03:13:47.878803+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."
---

# Jonathan Majors

## Identity

Jonathan Majors

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jonathan-majors
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jonathan-majors
- **IMDb ID:** nm3718007
- **TMDB ID:** 1674162
- **Wikidata ID:** Q31970512
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Majors, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31970512, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3718007/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1674162

Actor. Born 7 September 1989 in Dallas, Texas, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 September 1989, Dallas, Texas, USA
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Also known as:** ジョナサン・メジャース, ジョナサン・メイジャーズ, ジョナサン・メジャーズ, 조너선 메이저스, 	 조나단 메이저스, Jonathan Michael Majors, جوناثان ميجورز, 	 Τζόναθαν Μέιτζορς, جاناتان میجرز, ג'ונתן מג'ורס, Ջոնաթան Մեյջորս, Мэйджорс, Джонатан
- **Frequently works with:** [Delroy Lindo](https://film.one/person/delroy-lindo.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 66, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 58 (1), 2020s 68 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 66 to 69 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 2 of 5 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Action 2, Adventure 2, History 1, Mystery 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $788m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Majors, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31970512, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3718007/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1674162

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Creed III*](https://film.one/film/creed-iii.md) (72), [*Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania*](https://film.one/film/ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania.md) (54)
- **HBO Max:** [*Lovecraft Country*](https://film.one/tv/lovecraft-country.md) (74)
- **Netflix:** [*Da 5 Bloods*](https://film.one/film/da-5-bloods.md) (72)
- **Apple TV:** [*Hostiles*](https://film.one/film/hostiles.md) (58)

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

## Fi1m on Jonathan Majors

> Jonathan Majors does his best work standing still. He plays large, wounded men who have learned not to move, and in *Creed III* and *Lovecraft Country* that stillness carries more threat and more hurt than most actors manage in motion.

Watch what Jonathan Majors does in a diner in *Creed III* (2023). Damian Anderson, eighteen years out of prison, eats as if someone might take the plate away, and Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis cannot quite meet his eye. No punch has been thrown. Majors keeps his shoulders slightly forward, lets his eyes do the work, and says “yes, sir” a beat too long so that it means several things at once. That is the Majors performance in one scene: a big man holding himself in, and everyone else at the table adjusting around the effort.

He came through fast. After Yale School of Drama in 2016 there were small parts in *When We Rise* and *Hostiles* (both 2017), then *The Last Black Man in San Francisco* (2019) for Joe Talbot, *Da 5 Bloods* (2020) for Spike Lee, and the lead in *Lovecraft Country* (2020). In Misha Green’s series he plays Atticus Freeman, home from Korea, as a large man who has learned to stand still, and it is the right choice for a horror story in which the danger is nearly always outside the car and Tic’s job is not to give it a reason. The series gets busier than it can bear. He never does.

Then the studios found him, and what they found for him was villains: *The Harder They Fall* (2021), *Loki* (2021–2023) as variants of Kang, *Devotion* (2022), and in 2023 both *Creed III* and *Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania*. Some have worried about typecasting, and the worry is fair, but look at what he did with the two antagonists he was given. Kang could have been all shouting. Majors plays him tired, quiet and courteous, a conqueror who has run out of things to conquer, and he barely raises his voice. When he does, once, it lands like a door slamming in another room. His fifteen minutes with Michelle Pfeiffer are the only stretch of a muddled film in which two people seem to share a history, and he is the reason to see it.

It was the diner that got hold of us, though. Before the first fight we knew which of the two men we would think about on the way home, and it was not the one directing. Majors has said, “I’m willing to hurt more. I’m just willing to hurt. It doesn’t bother me.” That is the work. Damian is a hurt man, and Majors lets the hurt show without once asking us to feel sorry for him. Jordan’s film barely knows what to do with that, and has the sense to let it breathe whenever the plot permits.

The risk with a stillness this good is that it becomes the only thing anyone asks for. Kang and Damian are the same man with different budgets: the better one, overlooked, come back to collect. The studio run stopped after 2023, and the later work includes *Magazine Dreams*. Start with *Creed III*, then the first hour of *Lovecraft Country*, and count how much he gets done without saying anything at all.

## Biography

Jonathan Majors is an American actor. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, he first appeared on screen in the miniseries When We Rise (2017).

Majors rose to prominence with leading roles in the films The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) and Da 5 Bloods (2020), and the HBO series Lovecraft Country (2020), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Subsequent credits include Nat Love in The Harder They Fall (2021), Jesse Brown in Devotion (2022), Damian 'Dame' Anderson in Creed III (2023) and Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), as well as appearances in the series Loki (2021–2023).

Following a 2023 conviction for assault and harassment, Majors was dropped from several projects, including further Marvel Cinematic Universe work. He later starred in Magazine Dreams (2025) and is set to appear in Run Hide Fight: Infidels (2026).

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

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania* (2023), Fi1m 54, as Kang the Conqueror — [page](https://film.one/film/ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania.md)
- *Creed III* (2023), Fi1m 72, as Damian 'Dame' Anderson — [page](https://film.one/film/creed-iii.md)
- *Da 5 Bloods* (2020), Fi1m 72, as David — [page](https://film.one/film/da-5-bloods.md)
- *Lovecraft Country* (2020), Fi1m 74, as Atticus "Tic" Freeman — [page](https://film.one/tv/lovecraft-country.md)
- *Hostiles* (2017), Fi1m 58, as Corporal Henry Woodson — [page](https://film.one/film/hostiles.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

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

- *Run Hide Fight: Infidels* (2026), as Clayton "Clay" Saunders · Executive Producer
- *Magazine Dreams* (2025), as Killian Maddox · Executive Producer
- *Creed III* (2023), as Damian 'Dame' Anderson — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/creed-iii.md)
- *Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania* (2023), as Kang the Conqueror — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania.md)
- *Devotion* (2022), as Jesse Brown
- *Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special* (2021), as He Who Remains (archive footage)
- *The Harder They Fall* (2021), as Nat Love
- *Loki* (2021), series, as Time Keepers (voice) (uncredited), Victor Timely / He Who Remains, He Who Remains — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/loki.md)
- *Gully* (2021), as Greg
- *Jungleland* (2020), as Pepper
- *Lovecraft Country* (2020), series, as Atticus "Tic" Freeman — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/lovecraft-country.md)
- *Da 5 Bloods* (2020), as David — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/da-5-bloods.md)
- *The Last Black Man in San Francisco* (2019), as Montgomery Allen
- *Out of Blue* (2019), as Duncan J Reynolds
- *Captive State* (2019), as Rafe Drummond
- *White Boy Rick* (2018), as Johnny 'Lil Man' Curry
- *Hostiles* (2017), as Corporal Henry Woodson — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/hostiles.md)
- *When We Rise* (2017), series, as Young Ken Jones
- *True Threat*, as Vernon Threat
- *Merciless*, as John
- *Dinner at Nick’s*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Jonathan Majors at the Opening Night of "Joe Turner's Come And Gone" on Broadway - April 25, 2026](https://film.one/media/person/21624/gallery-cddb1963aa80.jpg) Jonathan Majors at the Opening Night of "Joe Turner's Come And Gone" on Broadway - April 25, 2026 — PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/JonathanMajors-byPhilipRomano.jpg/1280px-JonathanMajors-byPhilipRomano.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jonathan Majors in Conakry in January 2026](https://film.one/media/person/21624/gallery-97df485ca536.jpg) Jonathan Majors in Conakry in January 2026 — Mohamed Finando, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Jonathan_Majors.jpg/1280px-Jonathan_Majors.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Marvel Studios' Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania Marvel Studios' Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania - The Entertainment Quarter (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/21624/gallery-cfbbc8784ff3.png) Marvel Studios' Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania Marvel Studios' Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania - The Entertainment Quarter (2023) — Eva Rinaldi from Abbotsford, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Jonathan_Majors_%2852664029642%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Marvel Studios' Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania Fox Studios Entertainment Quarter Eva Rinaldi photography Marvel Studios' Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania -  (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/21624/gallery-b75e88761649.jpg) Marvel Studios' Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania Fox Studios Entertainment Quarter Eva Rinaldi photography Marvel Studios' Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania -  (2023) — Eva Rinaldi from Abbotsford, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Jonathan_Majors_%2852665026913%29.jpg/1280px-Jonathan_Majors_%2852665026913%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jonathan Majors](https://film.one/media/person/21624/gallery-5190721ee92d.jpg) Jonathan Majors — Image via TMDB
- ![Jonathan Majors](https://film.one/media/person/21624/gallery-6144612baa7a.jpg) Jonathan Majors — Image via TMDB
- ![Jonathan Majors](https://film.one/media/person/21624/gallery-f37896455d53.jpg) Jonathan Majors — Image via TMDB
- ![Jonathan Majors](https://film.one/media/person/21624/gallery-0cac871b0264.jpg) Jonathan Majors — Mohamed Finando, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Jonathan_Majors_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jonathan Majors](https://film.one/media/person/21624/gallery-6540893db9e3.jpg) Jonathan Majors — Image via TMDB
- ![Jonathan Majors](https://film.one/media/person/21624/gallery-400910406473.jpg) Jonathan Majors — Image via TMDB
- ![Jonathan Majors](https://film.one/media/person/21624/gallery-d2fd29feb328.jpg) Jonathan Majors — Image via TMDB

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