Harry lennix

Harry Lennix is a distinguished film, television stage actor and producer. For the past 9 seasons, he has starred as Harold Cooper, on NBC’s THE BLACKLIST. Moviegoers know Lennix as General Calvin Swanwick (a.ka. Martian Manhunter) from THE JUSTICE LEAGUE, MAN OF STEEL and BATMAN V. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE, Commander Lock in THE MATRIX: RELOADED and THE MATRIX: REVOLUTIONS, and Joe Adams in the Oscar® winning RAY. He made his screen debut as Dresser in the fan favorite movie: THE FIVE HEARTBEATS. Lennix also recurs on the Showtime series BILLIONS.

Lennix made his Broadway debut in Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson’s Tony nominated RADIO GOLF. For the stage, he directed LeKethia Dalcoe’s drama A SMALL OAK TREE RUNS RED, which went on to win the Audelco Award for best production in 2018, as well as Robert Townsend’s THE FIVE HEARTBEATS, which received three NAACP Theater Award nominations. Other directing credits include: THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams for Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Company.

As an actor for the stage he starred in August Wilson’s KING HEDLEY II at the Mark Taper Forum. In 2001 he played Iachimo in CYMBELINE for Theatre for a New Audience at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the first American company invited to perform in Stratford Upon Avon. In July 2014, Lennix created Exponent Media Group, a movie production company he founded with longtime Chicago associate Steve Harris. He is married to Djena Graves Lennix, a businesswoman.