Trevante Rhodes is an American actor, born in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. In his youth, he was an accomplished track and field sprinter, winning a gold medal at the Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in 2009. He studied kinesiology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Rhodes won several accolades and achieved recognition in 2016 for his performance as Chiron in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight. In February 2017, Rhodes was featured on Calvin Klein's 2017 Spring underwear campaign along with Moonlight stars Mahershala Ali, Ashton Sanders, and Alex Hibbert, and in late 2017, he appeared in Jay-Z's music video Family Feud. In 2018, Rhodes co-starred in the science fiction action film The Predator, and the post-apocalyptic thriller film Bird Box. His television credits include the Fox series Gang Related (2014) and the HBO series Westworld (2016). He also stars as Mike Tyson in Hulu's Mike (2022).
