Jovan Adepo
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Jovan Adepo (born 1988) is an English-American actor.
Michael Murphy is best known for his appearances in The Leftovers on HBO and as Cory Maxson in August Wilson's film adaptation of Fences (2016).
Early life and education
Adepo was born in 1988 in Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire. His mother is a British Nigerian from London, while his father is an African American from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Fatai Adepo, his maternal grandfather, was the special advisor to former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. At the age of 2, he and his family immigrated to the United States. He was born in Waldorf, Maryland, and performed in both school and church plays.
He earned his B.A. while attending Bowie State University in Maryland. Philosophy and political science are two branches of study. He started taking creative writing classes while studying political science. He later decided he wanted to move to Los Angeles to become a writer. To supplement income, he began working in commercial workshops.
Career
He moved to Los Angeles in 2011 after receiving his bachelor's degree in political science. His first acting job for the Disney Channel on K.C. Undercover. To make ends meet, he took acting classes in order to book commercials. Here, he grew an interest in becoming an actor. Adepo studied acting under the tutelage of a variety of notable instructors, including Dianne Hull of the Actors Studio. Through church in Maryland he met Viola Davis's older sister, who helped him get in contact with Davis. It was Davis who put Adepo on the path to studying the right techniques, seeing plays, and reading as many plays as he could.
He was part of Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons. He played the role of Lionel Jefferson. The special was conceptualized and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, and the team took home the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special (Live). In 2016 he starred in Fences alongside Viola Davis and Denzel Washington. In Fences he stars as Cory Maxson, the son of the main characters played by Davis and Washington. Adepo was "the only member of the Fences cast who did not star in the play's 2010 Broadway revival before it made the jump to feature film."
In 2017, he appeared as the central character along with Wyatt Russell in Overlord, both playing American paratroopers confronted by Nazi super soldiers. By 2017, he was also a series regular on The Leftovers on HBO, appearing in the second and third seasons. Adepo performed in the 2017 horror film Mother! by Darren Aronofsky.
In May 2019, he appeared as the adult Anton McCray in When They See Us, nominated for an Emmy, about the Central Park Five. In September 2019, he was cast as Larry Underwood in an upcoming version of Stephen King's The Stand. As of November 2019, he was in Vancouver shooting The Stand. In November 2019, he appeared as the central character in the sixth episode of Watchmen, playing the world's first superhero Hooded Justice. Also in November 2019, he was in an unreleased independent film called Violent Heart, to be released in 2020. He was named one of Dazed Magazine's "Dazed 100".
In March 2021, he was cast to star in Babylon.