Jonathan Majors

Jonathan Majors is genuinely one of the most compelling actors to break through in recent memory, and I mean that with the full weight of his resume behind it. A Yale School of Drama grad from Lompoc, California — not exactly a showbiz zip code — he quietly built this reputation for total immersion in his roles. His work in The Last Black Man in San Francisco was beautiful and understated, Da 5 Bloods showed he could hold his own against Delroy Lindo, and Lovecraft Country earned him a well-deserved Emmy nomination. Then Marvel handed him what felt like the keys to the whole Multiverse Saga as Kang the Conqueror, and he was magnetic in it. The off-screen legal situation that unfolded in 2023–2024 is real and complicated, and it cost him that franchise role. It's a genuinely messy chapter in an otherwise stunning rise — talent this obvious doesn't come around often, and watching it get derailed is just hard to sit with.

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Name (English)

Jonathan Majors

Name (Japanese)

ジョナサン・メイジャーズ

Reading

じょなさん・めいじゃーず

Born

September 7, 1989 (age 36)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

Origin

Lompoc, California, United States

Occupation

film actor / television actor / actor

High school

Duncanville High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Majors
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31970512

Tags

• California
• film actor
• television actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.