---
name: "Jovan Adepo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jovan-adepo"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 September 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 85
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T20:20:05.517490+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."
---

# Jovan Adepo

Actor. Born 6 September 1988 in Upper Heyford, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 September 1988, Upper Heyford, England, UK
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Also known as:** ジョバン・アデポ, Джован Адепо, 賈方·艾德波
- **Average Fi1m score:** 85, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 86 (2), 2020s 83 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 85 to 81 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Fantasy 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,632m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27063733, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5381254/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1607522

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Leftovers*](https://film.one/tv/the-leftovers.md) (87)

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## Biography

Jovan Adepo is a British-American actor. He was born on 6 September 1988 in Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, England, and moved to the United States as a child. He studied political science and philosophy at Bowie State University in Maryland.

Adepo's screen credits include the role of Cory Maxson in the 2016 film *Fences*, Private Edward Boyce in *Overlord* (2018), and Sidney Palmer in *Babylon* (2022). On television he played Michael Murphy in the HBO series *The Leftovers* (2015–2017) and Will Reeves in *Watchmen* (2019), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He has also appeared in *3 Body Problem* (2024) as Saul Durand.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Odyssey* (2026), Fi1m 83, as Elpenor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-odyssey.md)
- *When They See Us* (2019), Fi1m 84, as Antron McCray (Adult) — [page](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md)
- *The Leftovers* (2014), Fi1m 87, as Michael Murphy — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-leftovers.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Babylon* (2022), Actor

## Also known for

- *mother!* (2017), Cupbearer
- *Overlord* (2018), Boyce
- *Fences* (2016), Cory Maxson
- *Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan* (2018), Marcus Bishop
- *3 Body Problem* (2024), Saul Durand
- *IT: Welcome to Derry* (2025), Leroy Hanlon
- *To Catch a Killer* (2023), MacKenzie
- *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2009), Emmanuel Salim

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