Brian Tyree Henry Mother: Who Is Willow Dean Kearse?

Brian Tyree Henry is an American actor. He rose to prominence for his role as Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles in the FX comedy-drama series Atlanta, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

Brian Tyree Henry Mother: Who Is Willow Dean Kearse?

Henry was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and raised partly in Washington, D.C. His father was in the military, and his mother, Willow Dean Kearse, was an educator.

Henry attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia as a business major-turned-actor in the early 2000s, and received his master’s degree from Yale School of Drama.

Henry made guest appearances in television series such as NBC’s Law & Order, and CBS’s The Good Wife. In 2013 he had a brief but recurring role as Winston Scrapper in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire appearing in the episodes “Havre de Grace” and “Farewell Daddy Blues”.

The following year he appeared in Steven Soderbergh’s Cinemax series The Knick as Larkin in the episode “The Busy Flea”. He made his feature film debut in the 2015 comedy film Puerto Ricans in Paris.