--- name: "Justice Smith" canonical: "https://film.one/person/justice-smith" fi1m_id: "justice-smith" imdb_id: "nm6819854" tmdb_id: 1029934 wikidata_id: "Q22058479" roles: ["Actor"] born: "9 August 1995" reviewed_on_fi1m: 8 average_fi1m_score: 63 average_as: "actor" average_over: 8 updated: "2026-10-05T16:08:03.619972+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." --- # Justice Smith ## Identity Justice Smith - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/justice-smith - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** justice-smith - **IMDb ID:** nm6819854 - **TMDB ID:** 1029934 - **Wikidata ID:** Q22058479 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Smith, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22058479, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6819854/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1029934 Actor. Born 9 August 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 9 August 1995, Los Angeles, California, USA - **Active:** 2018–present - **Also known as:** Justice Elio Smith, Justiça Smith, Justicia Smith - **Frequently works with:** [Derek Connolly](https://film.one/person/derek-connolly.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 63, as actor, over 8 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 62 (2), 2020s 63 (6) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 63 to 60 across 7 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 3 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 3 of 8 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Adventure 4, Thriller 4, Science Fiction 3, Comedy 2, Fantasy 2, Action 1 - **Screen time:** 16 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $3,283m across 7 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Smith, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22058479, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6819854/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1029934 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves*](https://film.one/film/dungeons-and-dragons-honor-among-thieves.md) (73), [*Now You See Me: Now You Don't*](https://film.one/film/now-you-see-me-now-you-dont.md) (57) - **Disney+:** [*Ron's Gone Wrong*](https://film.one/film/rons-gone-wrong.md) (71), [*Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom*](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom.md) (58) - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Voyeurs*](https://film.one/film/the-voyeurs.md) (62) - **Netflix:** [*Jurassic World Dominion*](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-dominion.md) (42) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Justice Smith > Justice Smith plays frightened young men without asking us to find the fright funny, and he is at his best when a script trusts the nerves, as Daley and Goldstein did with Simon in *Dungeons & Dragons*. Blockbusters have mostly used him to scream. Simon, the sorcerer in *Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves* (2023), cannot make a spell work while anyone is looking at him. The easy way to play that is as a running gag. Justice Smith plays it as stage fright: the hesitation before the attempt, the eyes going to the people watching rather than to the thing he is meant to move. The jokes land because he is not telling them. That is what he does, in film after film. He takes the frightened one in the group and declines to wink at us over the character's head. He started as a lead, Ezekiel "Books" Figuero in Baz Luhrmann's series *The Get Down* (2016–2017), and the studios then spent several years putting him at the edge of the frame. In *Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom* (2018) he is Franklin Webb, whose function in the script is to scream, and he does it well enough that we wanted somebody to write him a second thing to do. He came back for *Dominion* (2022), alongside Daniella Pineda again. *Pokémon Detective Pikachu* (2019) gave him a lead opposite Ryan Reynolds' voice. In *Now You See Me: Now You Don't* (2025) he is Charlie, the new recruit who has thought about consequences, and he supplies the sense the film keeps overriding. Sensible is a quality, not a part, and the script never makes it one. Daley and Goldstein got the best of him because their script gave Simon a reason to be scared and then let the crew needle him for it, so the fear had somewhere to go. We laughed at Simon more than at anyone else in that film, and felt slightly mean about it, because Smith had made each fumble cost the boy something. Put him in a scene with Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez and he plays the one who wishes he were somewhere else, without ever asking for our pity. Give him only a corridor and a monster and he shouts, competently, and that is all we learn. Away from the franchises he has been working smaller: *All the Bright Places* (2020), *The Voyeurs* (2021), *Sharper* (2023) and *I Saw the TV Glow* (2024), where he is the lead, Owen. We have not reviewed them, so we will not judge them here. He said in 2024 that he "finally was saying no to things that didn't light me up, even if they were financially viable or a big blockbuster." The evidence of the blockbusters is that they mostly needed him scared and loud. The evidence of *Dungeons & Dragons* is that he is better scared and quiet, and the smaller films are where somebody may finally let him be. ## Biography Justice Smith is an American actor. Born Justice Elio Smith on 9 August 1995 in Los Angeles, he graduated from the Orange County School of the Arts in 2013 and began performing in theatre in the area. He first gained notice for his role as Ezekiel 'Books' Figuero in the series *The Get Down* (2016–2017). Subsequent film roles include Radar in *Paper Towns* (2015), Franklin Webb in *Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom* (2018) and *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022), and Tim Goodman in *Pokémon Detective Pikachu* (2019). Smith is also known for playing Simon in *Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves* (2023), Owen in *I Saw the TV Glow* (2024), and Charlie in *Now You See Me: Now You Don't* (2025). He voiced Ryan Erzahler in the video game *The Quarry* (2022). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, themoviedb.org.* ## On Fi1m (8) - *Now You See Me: Now You Don't* (2025), Fi1m 57, as Charlie — [page](https://film.one/film/now-you-see-me-now-you-dont.md) - *I Saw the TV Glow* (2024), Fi1m 74, as Owen — [page](https://film.one/film/i-saw-the-tv-glow.md) - *Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves* (2023), Fi1m 73, as Simon — [page](https://film.one/film/dungeons-and-dragons-honor-among-thieves.md) - *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022), Fi1m 42, as Franklin Webb — [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-dominion.md) - *Ron's Gone Wrong* (2021), Fi1m 71, as Marc (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/rons-gone-wrong.md) - *The Voyeurs* (2021), Fi1m 62, as Thomas — [page](https://film.one/film/the-voyeurs.md) - *Pokémon Detective Pikachu* (2019), Fi1m 65, as Tim Goodman — [page](https://film.one/film/pokemon-detective-pikachu.md) - *Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom* (2018), Fi1m 58, as Franklin Webb — [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom.md) ## Complete filmography (25) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Now You See Me: Now You Don't* (2025), as Charlie — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/now-you-see-me-now-you-dont.md) - *I Saw the TV Glow* (2024), as Owen — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/i-saw-the-tv-glow.md) - *The American Society of Magical Negroes* (2024), as Aren - *Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves* (2023), as Simon — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/dungeons-and-dragons-honor-among-thieves.md) - *Sharper* (2023), as Tom - *The Quarry: Movie Mode* (2022), as Ryan Erzahler - *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022), as Franklin Webb — Fi1m 42, [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-dominion.md) - *Ron's Gone Wrong* (2021), as Marc (voice) — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/rons-gone-wrong.md) - *The Voyeurs* (2021), as Thomas — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-voyeurs.md) - *Genera+ion* (2021), series, as Chester - *Query* (2020), as Jay - *All the Bright Places* (2020), as Finch - *Pokémon Detective Pikachu* (2019), as Tim Goodman — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/pokemon-detective-pikachu.md) - *Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom* (2018), as Franklin Webb — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom.md) - *Every Day* (2018), as Justin / A - *The Get Down* (2016), series, as Ezekiel Figuero - *An Exploration in Blue* (2016), as Theo - *Paper Towns* (2015), as Radar - *The Thundermans* (2013), series, as Angus - *Trigger Finger* (2012), as Boy at School - *Young Lust*, as Xavier - *Floodplain*, Actor - *If She Burns*, Actor - *Trust the Man*, Actor - *White Elephant*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Justice Smith](https://film.one/media/person/7690/gallery-ef273fdbb929.png) Justice Smith — Criticologos, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Justice_Smith_in_2025.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Star of Paper Towns, The Get Down, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. 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