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A graduate of the prestigious LAMDA in London, Aaron Pierre has recorded a lead role as Mufasa in Barry Jenkins' highly anticipated Lion King prequel for Disney. He played Caesar in Barry Jenkins' award-winning limited series, The Underground Railroad for Amazon and also starred in M. Night Shyamalan's film Old, in which he played a rapper and for which he wrote and performed a song. Pierre was nominated for the 2018 Ian Charleson Award for his professional stage debut as Cassio in Othello, opposite Mark Rylance, at Shakespeare's Globe.

Earlier this year, Aaron shot a three-hander opposite Saoirse Ronan in Garth Davis's Foe for Amazon Studios. He just completed shooting the lead in Jeremy Saulnier's Rebel Ridge for Netflix. Pierre can be seen next as one of the leads in Clement Virgo's Brother, which is premiering at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.

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