Michael Bakari Jordan is an American actor, producer, and director. He is known for his film roles as shooting victim Oscar Grant in the drama Fruitvale Station (2013), boxer Donnie Creed in Creed (2015), and Erik Killmonger in Black Panther (2018), all three of which were directed by Ryan Coogler. Jordan reprised the role of Creed in Creed II (2018), and is set to star and make his directorial debut in Creed III (2023).
Jordan's initially broke out in television roles; including Wallace in first season of the HBO crime drama series The Wire (2002); Reggie Montgomery in the ABC soap opera All My Children (2003-2006), and Vince Howard in the NBC sports drama series Friday Night Lights (2009–2011). His other film performances include Red Tails (2012), Chronicle (2012), That Awkward Moment (2014), Fantastic Four (2015), and Just Mercy (2019), where he portrayed Bryan Stevenson.
In 2020, Jordan was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine, as well as People's Sexiest Man Alive. In the same year, The New York Times ranked him #15 on its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.
For Disney, he portrayed Erik Killmonger in Black Panther (which earned him the 2018 MTV Movie Award for Best Villain), What If...?, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Drake Millard in Robot Fighters. He also voiced Trey Bakari in Race Cars.
