Brian Tyree Henry Biography

Fast Facts

• Played the baritone and mellophone horn in his high school marching band
• Got into acting during sophomore year of college after auditioning for the play Joe Turner's Come and Gone on a whim and landing the lead role
• Planned to move to Washington D
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• and work in home security after graduation, before being persuaded to audition for the Yale School of Drama
• Became friends with Sterling K
• Brown when the pair were playing drag queens in Tarell Alvin McCraney's Wig Out at the Sundance Theatre Lab in 2007
• Was part of the original Broadway cast of The Book Of Mormon