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Wendell Ramone "Jay" Ellis Jr. (born December 27, 1981) is an American actor. In 2013, Ellis received his first major role on BET's series The Game. His role as Martin "Lawrence" Walker in the HBO series Insecure (2016-2021), earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series. He later starred in the horror film Escape Room (2019), and appeared in Top Gun: Maverick (2022).
Jay Ellis. Actor: Insecure. Jay Ellis is a television and film actor, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. Born in Sumter, South Carolina, Ellis spent the majority of his childhood traveling with his military family. His father completed over 15 years of service in the Air Force while his mother was an accomplished finance executive and former board member of the Consumer Advisory Council for the Federal. Jay graduated Suma Cum Laude at Concordia...
May 17, 2022 · JAY ELLIS HAS the biggest smile on his face. This isn’t the smile of his Insecure character, Lawrence Walker, after accidentally charming his way into a threesome. This is the smile of a man who ...
Oct 21, 2021 · Insecure has taken Jay Ellis on quite the actor’s journey. The friendship between four Black women in Los Angeles is the focus of the HBO comedy, but Ellis’s character, Martin “Lawrence ...
Born in Sumter, South Carolina, to a military family, Jay Ellis spent his childhood inventing new personas for every town he landed in.After college, he decided to take his one-man show to Hollywood, where he got his start in a recurring role on BET’s The Game.Now an actor, philanthropist, and entrepreneur, Ellis is best known for his role as Lawrence on HBO’s Insecure, for which he won an NAACP Image Award.He appeared alongside Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick.
May 27, 2022 · Actor Jay Ellis poses for a portrait at the 22nd Annual American Black Film Festival at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel, Florida. J.Countess/Contour/Getty
Jay Ellis. Actor: Insecure. Jay Ellis is a television and film actor, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. Born in Sumter, South Carolina, Ellis spent the majority of his childhood traveling with his military family. His father completed over 15 years of service in the Air Force while his mother was an accomplished finance executive and former board member of the Consumer Advisory Council for the Federal. Jay graduated Suma Cum Laude at Concordia...
Sep 17, 2021 · JAY ELLIS OPENS UP TO L.A. CONFIDENTIAL ABOUT THE FINAL SEASON OF HBO’S INSECURE, HIS TURN IN THE LONG-AWAITED TOP GUN: MAVERICK, WORKING WITH FORMERLY INCARCERATED WRITERS AND MUCH MORE. PHOTOGRAPHED & STYLED BY ADRIAN MARTIN "The power of one's own voice and being able to tell your own story and have an agency is so profound and life-changing.” ...
Dec 27, 2021 · Jay Ellis didn’t see that ‘Insecure’ finale coming: It was ‘an out-of-body experience’ After five seasons, Lawrence (Jay Ellis) and Issa (Issa Rae) get back together in the “Insecure ...
May 24, 2022 · Top Gun: Maverick's Jay Ellis on getting notes from Tom Cruise and pulling G-forces in an F-18 Why it's impossible to have a "rehearsed moment in a jet going 700 to 1000 miles an hour"
