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Born in Sumter, South Carolina, to a military family, Jay Ellis spent his childhood inventing new personas for every town he landed in. Austin, TX; Sacramento, CA; Tampa, FL; Tulsa, OK; Youngstown, OH. 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. In 2022 appeared alongside Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick. His other television and film credits Mrs. America of FX, The Game for BET, Escape Room and Freaky Tales coming to theaters in 2024.
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