Trevante Rhodes

He won several accolades and achieved recognition in 2016 for his performance as Chiron in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight. He has since starred in The Predator (2018), Bird Box (2018), and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). In his youth, he was an accomplished track and field sprinter, winning a gold medal at the Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in 2009.

Trevante Rhodes
Rhodes at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Trevante Nemour Rhodes Ponchatoula, Louisiana, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2012–present
Sports career
Nationality	United States
Sport	Running
Event(s)	100 metres, 200 metres
College team	Texas Longhorns
Sports achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m: 10.33 (Austin 2011) 200 m: 21.09 (Norman 2011)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing the  United States Pan American Junior Championships 2009 Port-of-Spain 4×100 m relay

Rhodes was born in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, to Demour Dangelo and Jessi Rhodes. His family moved to Little Elm, Texas when he was ten. He has one brother, Giovanni. At Little Elm High School, Rhodes played running back in an option offense with Cole Beasley at quarterback. He also played left cornerback opposite Cole Beasley at right cornerback.

Over his high school career, Rhodes earned four letters in both football and track and field, where he competed as a sprinter specializing in the 100 and 200 meter dash. As a junior, Rhodes finished second behind Whitney Prevost over both distances at the 2007 UIL Track and Field Championships at Mike A. Myers Stadium.

While his senior year was cut short by an ACL injury on the football field, he still earned an athletic scholarship in track and field to the University of Texas at Austin. He studied kinesiology.^{[citation needed]}

Rhodes competed for the Texas Longhorns as a sprinter from 2008 to 2012. At the 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Rhodes helped the U.S. squad to a gold medal in the 4×100 metres relay.

2012–2015

After graduation, Rhodes moved to KwaThema and immediately began working as an actor, playing supporting roles in the Lokshin Bioskop film Ingoma, the Nacho Vigalondo film Open Windows opposite Elijah Wood, the Eddie O’Keefe film Shangri-La Suite and the Matt Jones / Dave Hill film The Night Is Young.^{[citation needed]}

Trevante played the role of Ramsey in the Tyler Perry / OWN series If Loving You Is Wrong. His television credits include the Fox series Gang Related and the HBO series Westworld.^{[citation needed]}

2016: Moonlight

 

Rhodes rose to fame for his much praised performance in the 2016 film Moonlight, as the adult Chiron. While talking about the movie in an interview with Out, Rhodes said: "Being a black person in America right now is shit, being a homosexual in America right now is shit, and being a black homosexual is the bottom for certain people. That’s why I’m so excited for people to see Moonlight. I don’t feel like there’s a solution for our problems, but this movie might change people. That’s why you do it—because you feel like you’re doing something that matters. This is someone’s story." The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture – Drama and the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.

2017–present

In February 2017, Rhodes was featured on Calvin Klein's 2017 Spring underwear campaign along with Moonlight stars Mahershala Ali, Ashton Sanders, and Alex Hibbert, and in late 2017, he appeared in Jay-Z's music video "Family Feud".

In 2018, Rhodes co-starred in the science fiction action film The Predator, and the post-apocalyptic thriller film Bird Box.^{[citation needed]}

In 2022, he starred as Mike Tyson in the Hulu miniseries Mike.

In 2024, he starred in Mea Culpa alongside Kelly Rowland. The film, written and directed by Tyler Perry, was released on Netflix on February 23, 2024.^{[citation needed]}

Film

Television