Corey Hawkins
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Corey Antonio Hawkins (born October 22, 1988) is an American actor. He rose to prominence for his role in the TV series The Walking Dead (2015–2016) and his portrayal of Dr. Dre in the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton, the latter of which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. He's also known for his performances on Broadway, starring in Six Degrees of Separation (2017) and Topdog/Underdog (2022), which earned him nominations for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. That same year, Hawkins starred in the Fox network series 24: Legacy (2017), along with Jordan Vogt-Roberts' monster film Kong: Skull Island. In 2018, he was featured in Spike Lee's biographical crime-comedy BlacKkKlansman, which earn
Filmography
Iron Man 3
as Navy Op
Kong: Skull Island
as Houston Brooks
BlacKkKlansman
as Kwame Ture
Non-Stop
as Travis Mitchell
6 Underground
as Seven
Straight Outta Compton
as Dr. Dre
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
as Clemens
Crime 101
as Tillman
The Tragedy of Macbeth
as Macduff
In the Heights
as Benny
The Color Purple
as Harpo
Georgetown
as Daniel Volker
The Piano Lesson
as Avery
The Man in My Basement
as Charles Blakey
Survive
as Paul
Romeo and Juliet
as Tybalt
The Raid
as Eric Carter
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
as Self
