Biography
Michael Rainey Jr. is an American actor. He was born on 22 September 2000 in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in Staten Island, New York.
His screen career began at the age of ten with the lead role in the Italian film Un Altro Mondo (2010). He made his American film debut in LUV (2012) and appeared as the young Cecil Gaines in The Butler (2013). Subsequent credits include recurring appearances in Orange Is the New Black (2013–2015) as Michael Burset and a starring role as Tariq St. Patrick in the Power franchise, including Power (2014–2020) and Power Book II: Ghost (2020–). Other film roles encompass Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016), 211 (2018) and Amateur (2018).
