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name: "Michael Rainey Jr."
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-rainey-jr"
fi1m_id: "michael-rainey-jr"
imdb_id: "nm3691729"
tmdb_id: 548375
wikidata_id: "Q3856245"
roles: []
born: "22 September 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T22:49:26.280744+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."
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# Michael Rainey Jr.

## Identity

Michael Rainey Jr.

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-rainey-jr
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-rainey-jr
- **IMDb ID:** nm3691729
- **TMDB ID:** 548375
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3856245
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rainey_Jr., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3856245, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3691729/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/548375

Actor. Born 22 September 2000 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

## Details

- **Born:** 22 September 2000, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- **Also known as:** مایکل رینی جونیور
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rainey_Jr., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3856245, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3691729/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/548375

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Butler*](https://film.one/film/the-butler.md) (66)

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

## 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).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Butler* (2013), Fi1m 66, as Cecil Gaines (8) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-butler.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Girl Dad* (2026), Actor
- *Power Book II: Ghost* (2020), series, as Tariq St. Patrick
- *211* (2018), as Kenny
- *Amateur* (2018), as Terron Forte
- *Barbershop: The Next Cut* (2016), as Jalen
- *Second Chance Christmas* (2014), as Lawrence
- *Power* (2014), series, as Tariq St. Patrick
- *The Butler* (2013), as Cecil Gaines (8) — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-butler.md)
- *Orange Is the New Black* (2013), series, as Michael Burset — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/orange-is-the-new-black.md)
- *LUV* (2013), as Woody
- *Un altro mondo* (2010), as Charlie
- *Power: Legacy*, series, as Tariq St. Patrick · Producer
- *Goons*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Michael Rainey Jr.](https://film.one/media/person/4165067/gallery-fd66df15dc5f.jpg) Michael Rainey Jr. — Shakhnazarov Artur, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Artur_Shakhnazarov_With_Michael_Rainey_Jr.jpg/1280px-Artur_Shakhnazarov_With_Michael_Rainey_Jr.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Michael Rainey Jr.](https://film.one/media/person/4165067/gallery-c7bd60df8cf3.jpg) Michael Rainey Jr. — Image via TMDB

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