Aldis Hodge can be seen playing the iconic role of Jim Brown in Regina King’s directorial debut, One Night in Miami. The film premiered at Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival, where it received an overwhelmingly positive response and critical acclaim. Hodge received an NAACP Image Award Best Supporting Actor nomination for the role.
He also stars and serves as a co-executive producer opposite Kevin Bacon in the Showtime Series City On A Hill which is currently airing Season Two. The series is also produced by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Tom Fontana and directed by Michael Cuesta.
Hodge is set to star as Hawkman opposite Dwayne Johnson and Noah Centineo in the New Line / DC Comic Black Adam. The film will release globally on July 29, 2022.
He recently wrapped filming Leverage: Redemption, where he reprises the r
Aldis Hodge can be seen playing the iconic role of Jim Brown in Regina King’s directorial debut, One Night in Miami. The film premiered at Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival, where it received an overwhelmingly positive response and critical acclaim. Hodge received an NAACP Image Award Best Supporting Actor nomination for the role.
He also stars and serves as a co-executive producer opposite Kevin Bacon in the Showtime Series City On A Hill which is currently airing Season Two. The series is also produced by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Tom Fontana and directed by Michael Cuesta.
Hodge is set to star as Hawkman opposite Dwayne Johnson and Noah Centineo in the New Line / DC Comic Black Adam. The film will release globally on July 29, 2022.
He recently wrapped filming Leverage: Redemption, where he reprises the role of Alec Hardison. The series will debut on IMDb TV – Amazon’s free ad-supported streaming service.
Additional film credits include Universal’s The Invisible Man opposite Elisabeth Moss and the independent feature Clemency opposite Alfre Woodard, which won the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film. Clemency had an incredible awards run and received multiple nominations. Hodge won a Virtuoso Award for his work in the film at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
He also starred in Brian Banks, directed by Tom Shadyac, and the Paramount Players feature release of What Men Want opposite Taraji P. Henson and Tracy Morgan. The film grossed over $70M worldwide. Hodge also appeared in the Academy Award-nominated Twentieth Century Fox feature Hidden Figures, and the cast received an ensemble award for the 2017 SAG Awards. He also starred opposite Tom Cruise in the Paramount feature Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.
Hodge is perhaps most well-known for his role as MC Ren in Universal Pictures’ Straight Outta Compton. The film gained critical acclaim and was nominated for various awards, including a 2016 Screen Actors Guild Award in the category of Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, a 2016 Producers Guild Award, as well as an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Straight Outta Compton received African American Film Critics Association awards in the categories of Best Picture and Best Ensemble and an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Motion Picture.
Other work includes the Disney feature Magic Camp, the fourth season of the hit Netflix series Black Mirror and as the lead in a new Netflix anthology Medal of Honor and the series Underground for WGN America opposite Jurnee Smollett and Christopher Meloni.
Hodge was seen in the Fox Searchlight eco-terrorism thriller The East and Twentieth Century Fox’s A Good Day to Die Hard, the latest installment of the Die Hard franchise.
Hodge started his career at three years old as a model for print ads and commercials until he transitioned to the small screen when he and his brother Edwin Hodge were cast on Sesame Street and later on stage when they joined the Tony-winning revival of Showboat on Broadway. Hodge also appeared in several movies, including Die Hard with a Vengeance, Bed of Roses, The Stone House, Edmond, The Lady Killers and Big Momma’s House.
Additional television credits include Friday Night Lights, Supernatural, The Walking Dead, Girlfriends, American Dreams, City of Angels, Bones, CSI, ER, Cold Case, Charmed and Boston Public.
Hodge was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina and raised in New York. In addition to acting, Hodge writes scripts for film and television, designs luxury timepieces and is an avid artist and painter. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
