My Take
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.
Overview
Jonathan Michael Majors (born September 7, 1989) is an American actor. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Majors rose to prominence for starring in the drama films The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) and Da 5 Bloods (2020), as well as the HBO horror series Lovecraft Country (2020), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
1. Profile
- 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
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / television actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Duncanville High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.