With all of the movie and TV tasks shot right here, our metropolis has no scarcity of proficient native stage actors who’ve efficiently gone on to movie and tv work. Working example: our September subject cowl star, Daniel Deadwiler. Listed below are another notable Atlantans you might have first seen on stage who now lend their abilities to the large and small screens.
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Megan Hayes
On stage in Atlanta: Intercourse with strangers on the Horizon Theater in 2016 and a number of Georgia Shakespeare Theater productions. Hayes additionally wrote a Suzy Bass Award-winning play for kids, ineffective monster.
On-screen: Hayes is finest often called a Morphling from 2013’s District Six The Starvation Video games: Catching fireplace and had a job within the Apple TV miniseries Manhunt.
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Suhela El-Attar Younger
On stage in Atlanta: Younger was in Steve Yockey’s newest play Mercury, Actors Categorical in April and 2023 Assist group for males on the Horizon Theatre.
On-screen: He was in 2014 Million Greenback Arm and in each Ant-Man and the Wasp And inexperienced e-book In 2018.
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Stephen Ruffin
On stage in Atlanta: Ruffin was Past a Cheap Doubt: The Troy Davis Mission Within the theater of synchronicity and Macbeth on the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse.
On-screen: Ruffin is a busy younger actor, taking part in the function of Wilson within the TV collection snowfall In 2021. He additionally acted BMF: Black Mafia Household 2023 on Starz and Netflix horror film quick Disco Inferno.
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Enoch King
On stage in Atlanta: Acted at Raja Horizon Theatre the sunshine in 2022 and Kenny Leone’s True Colours manufacturing in 2023 That critical He-Man ball.
On-screen: He’s Johnny B. in 2022. Performed Washington as much as and appeared in 2024 Unhealthy Boys: Experience or Die and FX’s atlanta.
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Britney Eng
On stage in Atlanta: Seen Spelman grad Blackberry Days And The Ballad of Cluck And VignetteEach on the Horizon Theatre.
On-screen: He was on the BET unique collection Mrs. Pat Shaw and had a featured function as divorce advert exec Crystal on the BET collection boomerang.
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David de Vries
On stage in Atlanta: De Vries appeared within the Alliance Theater manufacturing One flu over D cuckoo’s nest And A Christmas Carol.
On-screen: he performed AJC Editor John Walter in Clint Eastwood’s 2019 Richard Jewell and Hiram Walcott in Ron Howard Hillbilly Elegy In 2020.
This text appeared in our November 2024 subject.
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