A Bronx native, actor Jharrel Jerome made his feature film debut in Barry Jenkins' Academy Award winning film MOONLIGHT, for which he and his cast mates have earned countless accolades including the Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Film and an MTV Movie Award. He will next be seen in the Netflix limited series CENTRAL PARK FIVE for director Ava DuVernay. Based on a true story that gripped the nation, the series will chronicle the notorious case of five teenagers of color who were convicted of rape they did not commit. Jharrel will be starring as the teenage and adult versions of his character Korey Wise, the only actor in the series to do so. Wise is one of the wrongfully convicted five who was charged as an adult in the case and served 12 years in prison before being exonerated. The series will be released in 2019. He can next be seen in the independent films SELAH AND THE SPADES (Sundance 2019) and ROBU. Additional film credits incl
A Bronx native, actor Jharrel Jerome made his feature film debut in Barry Jenkins' Academy Award winning film MOONLIGHT, for which he and his cast mates have earned countless accolades including the Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Film and an MTV Movie Award. He will next be seen in the Netflix limited series CENTRAL PARK FIVE for director Ava DuVernay. Based on a true story that gripped the nation, the series will chronicle the notorious case of five teenagers of color who were convicted of rape they did not commit. Jharrel will be starring as the teenage and adult versions of his character Korey Wise, the only actor in the series to do so. Wise is one of the wrongfully convicted five who was charged as an adult in the case and served 12 years in prison before being exonerated. The series will be released in 2019. He can next be seen in the independent films SELAH AND THE SPADES (Sundance 2019) and ROBU. Additional film credits include MONSTER, based on Walter
Dean Myers’ Michael L. Printz Award Winning novel of the same name, opposite Jennifer Hudson, Jeffrey Wright, Tim Blake Nelson, and Nas; and FIRST MATCH, currently streaming on Netflix.
On television, Jharrel currently stars as a series regular on AT&T Audience Network’s drama series MR. MERCEDES, starring opposite Brendan Gleeson, Harry Treadaway, and Holland Taylor. Jharrel plays 'Jerome Robinson', a high school student who inadvertently becomes involved in an off -the-books investigation led by Hodges (Gleeson). Jharrel also starred in an episode of BET’s own hip-hop anthology series TALES opposite Bre-Z.
In addition to acting, Jharrel writes and records his own music which has been featured on the first two seasons of MR. MERCEDES.
