Yahoo Lifestyle Artists First Signs ‘SEAL Team’s Neil Brown Jr.
EXCLUSIVE: Artists First has signed actor Neil Brown Jr. for management.
Brown most recently was seen starring in the seventh and final season of the CBS series SEAL Team. The actor has starred on 114 episodes.
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He also had a large recurring role in the HBO series Insecure opposite co-creator and star Issa Rae.
Previously, Brown appeared alongside Elijah Wood in BBC’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
On the feature side, the Orlando native can next be seen starring opposite Nicky Whelan in the independent feature Last Night in Rozzie. He played a lead role in the indie City of Lies, opposite Johnny Depp, as well as a supporting role in in Netflix’s Naked opposite Marlon Wayans and Regina Hall.
Previously, Brown played DJ Yella in Universal’s Straight Outta Compton, about the emergence of rap group N.W.A in the mid 1980s; the movie grossed more than $201 million worldwide. He also was in the Netflix movie Sandcastle alongside Henry Cavill and Nicholas Hoult.
Brown’s other films include Universal’s Fast and Furious and Sony’s Battle Los Angeles.
He continues to be represented by Buchwald and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
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