Jason Mitchell(XVI)
- Actor
- Producer
Jason Mitchell is an American actor. He had roles in the films Contraband (2012) and Broken City (2013), both of which starred Mark Wahlberg. In 2015, Mitchell played Compton rapper Eazy-E in the biopic Straight Outta Compton (2015), with his performance being met with significant praise by critics. In 2016 he appeared in Keanu (2016), which starred Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. He followed with projects on Netflix: Barry (2016) and Mudbound (2017), Kong: Skull Island (2017), Sony's SuperFly (2018) remake, and The Mustang (2019) for Focus Features. On the first two seasons on the television front, Jason was the lead of Lena Waithe's The Chi (2018) for the Showtime Television Network.
