Actor Mykel Shannon Jenkins

Mykel Shannon Jenkins

1969 (56 лет)
Mykel Shannon Jenkins (born July 3, 1969) is an American actor and filmmaker whose professional career started when he became winner of the first season of the SOAPnet series I Wanna Be a Soap Star. Jenkin's career spans across numerous film and television productions, from soaps to network television to independent and studio films.

Jenkins won a 13-week contract on General Hospital as Officer Byron Murphy after winning I Wanna Be a Soap Star. He was later recast in 2023 as a physical therapist for Curtis Ashford. He joined The Bold and the Beautiful in 2007 as Officer Charlie Baker.

He appeared in Undisputed III: Redemption (2010), and in 2017, starred in Same Kind of Different as Me, The Wrong Mother, Teleios, and The Gods, which he also wrote and produced. In 2021, he played Jim in The Paper Tigers. The sequel The Gods II was released in 2023. Jenkins is set to co-star with Morgan Freeman and Luke Hemsworth in Gunner.

Jenkins graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana.