Jovan Adepo (born 6 September 1988) is a British-American actor. He made his feature film debut in the period drama Fences (2016), which was followed by roles in the psychological horror film Mother! (2017), the action horror film Overlord (2018), the period comedy-drama Babylon (2022), and the drama His Three Daughters (2023).
Adepo also starred in the HBO supernatural drama series The Leftovers (2015–2017), the Facebook Watch drama series Sorry for Your Loss (2018–2019), the Amazon Prime Video action thriller series Jack Ryan (2019), the Netflix true crime miniseries When They See Us (2019), the HBO superhero miniseries Watchmen (2019), the CBS All Access fantasy miniseries The Stand (2020–2021), the Netflix science fiction series 3 Body Problem (2024) and the HBO horror series It: Welcome To Derry (2025). For his performance as Hooded Justice in Watchmen, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
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Early life and education
Adepo was born in 1988 in Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, England. His mother is a British Nigerian from London, while his father is an African American from Chattanooga, Tennessee. He holds dual American and British citizenship. His maternal grandfather Fatai Adepo was special adviser to former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. He moved to the United States with his family at age 2. Raised in Waldorf, Maryland, he acted in school and church plays.
