Jonathan Majors
American actor Jonathan Michael Majors was born on September 7, 1989. He first gained notoriety after playing the lead role in the 2019 independent film The Last Black Man in San Francisco. In 2020, he attracted more attention after playing the lead role in the 2020 HBO television series Lovecraft Country, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. Additionally, he played Jesse L. Brown in the war movie Devotion and Nat Love in the western The Harder They Fall (2021). (2022). He started acting in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2021, playing several incarnations of the villain Kang the Conqueror.
early years
Because his father served in the US Air Force, Edit Majors spent his early years living on the Vandenberg military base with his mother, a pastor, his older sister, and his younger brother. Edit Majors was born in Santa Barbara County, California. "Our father, who loved us dearly, just kind of disappeared one day... and he resurfaced 17 years later," Majors said in 2020. Majors and his father have since reestablished contact. Soon the family relocated to Texas's Dallas. After that, Majors resided in Georgetown, Texas, a suburb of Austin, before spending his formative years in Cedar Hill, Texas. He transferred from Cedar Hill High School, and in 2008 he earned his diploma from Duncanville High School.
Majors experienced a challenging upbringing because he had recently released criminals as neighbors who were wearing ankle monitors, such as drug dealers or murders. Majors struggled a lot as a teen: he was detained for shoplifting, expelled from high school for getting into a fight and, at one point, after being evicted from his home, he lived in his car and worked two jobs to make ends meet. After watching Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, where he felt Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker to resemble the criminals with moralistic dualities he grew up with for his complexity of good and evil, he eventually found a "safe space" in the world of theater,[4] where he found some solace and joined. This inspired him to become an actor so he could inspire others like Ledger did to him.
Majors completed his undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts before continuing his education at the Yale School of Drama, where he earned an MFA in 2016.