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Justin Michael Cornwell (born November 5, 1988) is an American actor, writer and musician best known for playing Young Jeronicus Jangle in the hit Netflix original movie Jingle Jangle, Marcus Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy and Kyle Craig in the CBS crime drama, Training Day, based on the 2001 film of the same name.

Justin Cornwell
Born	Justin Michael Cornwell (1988-11-05) November 5, 1988 (age 34) Sharon, Pennsylvania
Alma mater	University of Louisville
Occupation	Actor, writer, musician
Years active	2011–present

Early life and education

Cornwell was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania to Sidney Cornwell and Robin Bodiford.[1] However, he was primarily raised in Cleveland, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky.[2] At age 10, he relocated with his mother and stepfather Jackie Herring (died 2009) to Louisville where he was encouraged to pursue art after first showing an interest in grade school. He graduated from Eastern High School where he participated in chorus and school plays. He was named as a premier student artist at the Muhammad Ali Center. He attended the University of Louisville where he continued studying acting. Cornwell relocated to Chicago in 2011 to pursue his acting career.[1]

Career

Cornwell found work at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre where he appeared in "Othello the Remix", "A Mid Summers Night Dream" and other Chicago theatre productions shortly after being signed by Gray Talent Group.[1][3] While constantly working in theater and on the crew of TV shows Justin booked appearances in commercials for Walmart and the Ohio Lottery. In 2014, Cornwell appeared in an episode of the NBC crime drama, "Chicago P.D". In 2015, he appeared in an episode of Fox's hit musical drama, Empire and later had an uncredited appearance in Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq".[1] In March 2016, Cornwell was cast in the pilot for the CBS drama "Training Day", based on the 2001 film of the same name. It went to series but was cancelled after the untimely death of Cornwell's co-lead Bill Paxton, airing all 13 episodes of its sole season.[4] In 2017 Cornwell was cast in the TNT limited series "I Am the Night", produced by Patty Jenkins and Chris Pine, which aired its limited run in January 2019. That same year also saw Cornwell star in the NBC supernatural crime drama, "The InBetween", which ended its run after only one season. In the fall of 2020 Cornwell appeared in the event musical "Jingle Jangle" for Netflix as young Jeronicus Jangle performing the opening song This Day in the film. In January of 2021 it was announced that Cornwell would be joining the season 3 of hit Netflix series "The Umbrella Academy (TV series)" as the leader of an alternate group of super powered siblings called the Sparrow Academy.[5] As of June 2021 Cornwell was announced as a lead in Gareth Evans Netflix action thriller "Havoc" starring alongside Tom Hardy and Forest Whitaker.

Personal life

Justin married his longtime girlfriend Lindsey Jones on 7 September 2019.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Movies

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Poor Perception	Blake	Short film
2015	Chi-Raq	Trojan	Uncredited
2018	We Are Boats	Freddie
2020	Jingle Jangle	Young Jeronicus
2023	Havoc	Charlie	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Chicago P.D.	James Grant	Episode: "Prison Ball"
2015	Empire	Songwriter	Episode: "The Devil Quotes Scripture"
2017	Training Day	Kyle Craig	Lead
2019	I Am the Night	Terrence Shye	Limited series
2019	The InBetween	Damien Asante	Lead
2022	The Umbrella Academy	Marcus Hargreeves / Sparrow Number One	Recurring role (season 3)

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Watch Dogs	Viceroys	Additional voices

References

6. Timothy Olyphant, Justin Cornwell and Others Join Tom Hardy in Netflix Action Thriller ‘Havoc’ (EXCLUSIVE) By Rebecca Rubin, Patrick Frater

External links

• Justin Cornwell at IMDb

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