Jovan Adepo

Jovan Adepo is a British–American actor. He is best known for playing Michael Murphy in the HBO television series The Leftovers and for his role as Cory Maxson in the film adaptation of August Wilson's play, Fences (2016).

Adepo was born in Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, to a British mother from London and an American father from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Raised in Waldorf, Maryland, he would act in school and church plays. He attended college at Bowie State University in Maryland, receiving his B.A. in political science and philosophy. In 2011, he moved to Los Angeles to become a writer. To make ends meet, he would take acting classes in order to book commercials; He grew an interest to become an actor. Adepo studied acting under the tutelage of a variety of notable instructors, including Dianne Hull of the Actors Studio. Through church in Maryland, he met Viola Davis's older sister who helped him get in contact with Davis. It was Davis who put Adepo on the right path to studying the right techniques, seeing plays, and reading as many plays as he could. He also has a younger sister, Macayla, who is currently a high school freshman.

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