Aaron Pierre

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Jun 07, 1994 (30 years old)

Aaron Pierre

Known For

Big Little Journeys
1h 0m
TV Show 2023

Big Little Journeys

Dive into the extraordinary worlds of six tiny animals as they embark on the biggest journeys of their lives.

Foe
1h 51m
Movie 2023

Foe

Henrietta and Junior farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior's family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal. Will they risk their relationship & personal identity for a chance to survive in a new world?

Brother
2h 0m
Movie 2023

Brother

Sons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto's early hip-hop scene. A mystery unfolds when escalating tensions set off a series of events which changes the course of the brothers’ lives forever.

Old
1h 48m
Movie 2021

Old

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

The Gaze
0h 52m
Movie 2021

The Gaze

In all my years of doing press, I've been repeatedly asked about the white gaze. Rarely have I been set upon about the Black gaze; or the gaze distilled. This is an answer to a question rarely asked.

Biography

Aaron Stone Pierre (born June 7 1994) is an English actor. After training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Pierre gained recognition for his role as Dev-Em in the science fiction series Krypton (2018–2019). He has since starred in the period drama miniseries The Underground Railroad (2021), as well as the thriller films Old (2021) and Rebel Ridge (2024). Also in 2024, he portrayed Malcolm X in the miniseries Genius and voiced Mufasa in Mufasa: The Lion King. Pierre was born on June 7 1994, in London. He is of Jamaican, Curaçao and Sierra Leonean background. He participated in athletics and sprinting as a child and developed an interest in acting as a teenager. He joined the Croydon Young People's Theatre (CRYPT) once he moved areas. He took Performing Arts at Lewisham College before training in Toronto and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 2016. Pierre appeared in 2 episodes of the BBC One series The A Word. In series 1 of the Sky Atlantic series Britannia, he played a Roman soldier, Antonius. In 2018, he began starring as Dev-Em in the Syfy series Krypton. Pierre starred as Cassio in Othello at Shakespeare's Globe that same year. For his performance, he received an Ian Charleson Award commendation. He played the King opposite Lenny Henry in the 2019 production of King Hedley II at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. American director Barry Jenkins saw Pierre in Othello and sent him a message inviting him to audition for his new series. Pierre landed the role of Caesar in The Underground Railroad, released on Amazon Prime in May 2021. In July 2021, Pierre appeared as Mid-Sized Sedan / Brendan in M. Night Shyamalan's film Old. In August 2021, it was reported that Pierre would reteam with Barry Jenkins as a young Mufasa in a Lion King film. In October 2021, after John Boyega stepped down for family reasons, Pierre starred in Jeremy Saulnier's film Rebel Ridge, streamed on Netflix in 2024. In 2021, he starred in Foe, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Iain Reid. In February 2022, Pierre joined the cast of the upcoming superhero film Blade, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and scheduled to be released on November 7, 2025. However, he was released from the project by March 2024 due to script rewrites. He won the Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, for his performance as Francis in the film Brother. Pierre provided the voice of a young Mufasa in Mufasa: The Lion King. In October 2024, Pierre was cast as John Stewart / Green Lantern in DC Studios's Lanterns television series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aaron Pierre, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.