Sterling Kelby Brown (born April 5, 1976) is an American actor. Known for his leading roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a nomination for an Academy Award. He was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018. Brown portrayed Christopher Darden in the FXlimited series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016), which earned the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. For his role as Randall Pearson in the NBC drama series This Is Us (2016–2022), he earned the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He was further Emmy-nominated for his comedic roles in the Fox Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2018) and the Amazon Prime comedy series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2019). For his role in American Fiction (2023), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Brown is also known for his leading roles in films such as Hotel Artemis (2019), Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022), and Biosphere (2023) as well as supporting roles in Marshall (2017), Black Panther (2018), and Waves (2019). He has voiced roles in the 2019 animated films The Angry Birds Movie 2 and Frozen II. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sterling K. Brown, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Is God Is — Man
• 2026The Gallerist — Tom
• Paradise — Xavier Collins, Executive Producer
• 2025Shadow Force — Producer
• Washington Black — Medwin Harris, Executive Producer
• 2024Atlas — Colonel Elias Banks
• 2023American Fiction — Clifford Ellison
• 2023Biosphere — Ray
• 2022Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. — Lee-Curtis Childs, Producer
• Interrupting Chicken — Papa (voice)
• 2021Bug Therapy — Stick Bug (voice)
• INVINCIBLE — Angstrom Levy / Angstrom #646 (voice), Angstrom Levy (voice)
• Lincoln: Divided We Stand — Narrator
• 2021The Normal Heart
• 2020A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote — Leo McGarry
• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts — Lio Oak (voice)
• Solar Opposites — Halk (voice)
• 2020The Rhythm Section — Serra
• 2019Frozen II — Mattias (voice)
• 2019One Day at Disney — Narrator (voice)
• 2019The Angry Birds Movie 2 — Garry (voice)
• 2019The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience — Sia
• 2019Waves — Ronald
• 2018Black Panther — N'Jobu
• 2018Hotel Artemis — Sherman / Waikiki
• 2018The Predator — Traeger
• Big Mouth — Michael Angelo (voice)
• 2017Marshall — Joseph Spell
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — Reggie
• American Crime Story — Christopher Darden
• 2016Mojave — Detective Fletcher (uncredited)
• 2016Spaceman — Rodney Scott
• This Is Us — Randall Pearson
• 2016Whiskey Tango Foxtrot — Sgt. Hurd
• MLB Network Presents — Narrator
• 2014Galyntine — Samhir
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Philip Davidson
• Masters of Sex — Marcus
• 2013The Suspect — The Other Suspect
• Harry's Law — Mr. Thomas
• 2011Our Idiot Brother — Officer Omar
• Person of Interest — Cal Beecher
• Nikita — Nick Anson
• Castle — Ed Redley
• The Good Wife — Andrew Boylan
• Eli Stone — David Mosley
• 2008Righteous Kill — Rogers
• The Mentalist — DEA Agent Higgins
• Army Wives — Roland Burton
• 2007The Favor — Policeman #1
• Shark — Quenton North
• Medium — Todd Gillis
• Starved — Adam Williams
• 2005Stay — Frederick / Devon
• Supernatural — Gordon Walker
• 2005Trust the Man — Rand
• Boston Legal — Zeke Borns
• NCIS — Elijah Banner
• Tarzan — Detective Carey
• 2002Brown Sugar — Co-Worker
• Hack — Rasheed Morgan
• 2002Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon — Carl Jocelyn
• Without a Trace — Thomas Biggs
• Alias — Agent Rance
• Third Watch — Officer Dade
• ER — Bob Harris
• Better Than They Found It: Black Coaches Who Shaped the Modern NFL — Narrator (voice)
• Double Booked
• The Defender — Scipio Africanus Jones
• Voltron — Zarkon

Appearances as themselves (31)

• Paradise: Official Podcast — Self
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self - Guest
• Amend: The Fight for America — Self
• 2021Roll Up Your Sleeves — Self
• Soul of a Nation — Self
• Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II — Self
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire — Self - Phone a Friend
• Ellen's Greatest Night of Giveaways — Self
• 2019Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self, Self - Guest
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• Hot Ones — Self
• IMDb on the Scene — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• Running Wild with Bear Grylls — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• Finding Your Roots — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• CNN Heroes — Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self, Self - Guest
• The Daily Show — Self - Guest
• The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA — Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Entertainment Tonight — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• The Oscars — Self, Self - Presenter
• The Emmy Awards — Self