Trai Byers

Trai Byers

Nascimento : 1983-07-19, Kansas City, Kansas, USA

História

Trai Byers is an American actor and singer known for playing Andre Lyon in the Fox music-industry prime time drama Empire. During the October 7, 2015 episode of the daytime talk show, FABLife, Byers's costar Grace Gealey confirmed that they were engaged. He and Gealey married on Grand Cayman Island on April 14, 2016. Trai Byers was born in Kansas City, Kansas. After high school in Kansas City, he completed his high-school education in Georgia. Byers then graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor's degree in communications. He also attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Los Angeles, and the Yale School of Drama. In 2011, Byers made his television debut with the recurring role on the ABC daytime soap opera, All My Children, and the following year had role in The CW teen soap,90210. He played civil rights activist James Forman in the 2014 historical epic film, Selma.

Perfil

Trai Byers

Filmes

The 24th
The 24th
Producer
The incredibly powerful and timely true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The Houston Riot was a mutiny by 156 African American soldiers in response to the brutal violence and abuse at the hands of Houston police officers.
The 24th
The 24th
Boston
The incredibly powerful and timely true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The Houston Riot was a mutiny by 156 African American soldiers in response to the brutal violence and abuse at the hands of Houston police officers.
The 24th
The 24th
Writer
The incredibly powerful and timely true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The Houston Riot was a mutiny by 156 African American soldiers in response to the brutal violence and abuse at the hands of Houston police officers.
Agentes Duplos
Agentes Duplos
Chuck
"Bent" segue Danny Gallagher, um detetive desacreditado de narcóticos que, após sua libertação da prisão, faz planos de se vingar do acusador que o matou e matou seu parceiro. Através de sua missão, Gallagher é forçado a enfrentar um agente do governo implacável e sedutor, que pode ou não estar do seu lado e seu mentor, um policial aposentado que lutou contra a corrupção por toda a sua carreira.
Americons
Americons
Theo Jones
A broken down collegiate football hero gets a shot at stardom during the eleventh hour of LA's nihilistic sub-prime mortgage boom.
Selma: Uma Luta pela Igualdade
Selma: Uma Luta pela Igualdade
James Forman
Narra a luta histórica do dr. Martin Luther King Jr. para garantir o direito ao voto para os afro-americanos – uma campanha perigosa e apavorante que culminou na épica marcha de Selma a Montgomery, no Alabama, que galvanizou a opinião pública americana e persuadiu o presidente Johnson a apresentar a Lei do Direito ao Voto de 1965.
Jayhawkers
Jayhawkers
Nathan Davis
A group of unlikely allies modernized college sports and changed a small Midwestern town, serving as a parallel to the Civil Rights movement that would transform the entire American society.
Destination: Planet Negro!
Destination: Planet Negro!
B12
In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely response to Jim Crow America -- leave the planet and populate Mars. Using technology created by George Washington Carver, a three-person crew (plus one rambunctious robot) lift-off in Earth's first working spaceship on a mission that will take them to a world not unlike present-day America. Their spacey adventure illuminates some hard truths about American culture, and threatens to undermine the time-line of history along the way.
Caesar and Otto's Summer Camp Massacre
Caesar and Otto's Summer Camp Massacre
Chip
Caesar, an effete tough guy and his slovenly half brother, Otto, have signed up as summer camp counselors. But when the mysterious Carrie shows up, the other counselors start disappearing one by one.
The Piano Lesson
The Piano Lesson
Avery
In 1936, an ornately carved piano - the Charles family's prized possession - has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles' Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece's exuberant brother, bursts into her life with his dream of buying the same Mississippi land that his family had worked as slaves, he plans to sell their antique piano for the cash he needs to stake his future. But Berniece refuses to sell, clinging to the piano as a reminder of the history that is their family legacy.