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Banks Repeta plays the lead role in James Gray's highly anticipated feature film for Focus, Armageddon Time (2022), opposite Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong. The film was recently selected to compete at this year's Cannes film festival.

Banks feature credits include Antonio Campos' DEVIL ALL THE TIME for Netflix, where he plays a young Tom Holland alongside Haley Bennett and Bill Skarsgard, Scott Derrickson's The Black Phone (2021) for Blumhouse, as well as Sundance hit UNCLE FRANK written and directed by Alan Ball.

On television, he can be seen recurring on MANHUNT THE UNABOMBER, opposite Sam Worthington as well as in Fox comedy WELCOME TO FLATCH from producer Paul Feig. He has also appeared in Stephen King's THE OUTSIDER on HBO, opposite Ben Mendelsohn, LOVECRAFT COUNTRY for HBOmax and GONE for NBC.

Growing up in the natural preserves of coastal North Carolina, Banks is attuned to the rhythms of tidal life. His knowledge and love of the great outdoors makes him a natural water man who spears, cleans and cooks his own fish. He's a surfer, skateboarder, and open water swimmer. He plays guitar and is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Being raised in a family of film professionals, Banks has been exposed to film making his entire life.

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Banks Repeta

Critics Choice Awards

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards

Music City Film Critics' Association Awards

Seattle Film Critics Society

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