Byron Bowers is an American comedian, writer, and actor. Byron has appeared on The Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim, Comedy Central's Adam DeVine's House Party, and on the reboot of BET's Comic View. He made his late-night debut on The Pete Holmes Show, followed by an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. He appeared in MTV's Guy Code and in the History Channel comedy, The Crossroads of History. He is currently appearing in Lena Waithe's Showtime series drama The Chi as Meldrick. He also played the roommate of Lucas Hedges’ character in the film Honey Boy, which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. In 2016, he performed at the Hollywood Bowl on a bill with Flying Lotus, Thundercat, and George Clinton as part of the Brainfeeder festival. He appeared in the horror film KUSO. His TV credits include season 3 of The Meltdown on Comedy Central, Funny as Hell in Montreal for HBO Canada, and Flop House for Viceland. [8] His festival performances include Oddball Comedy Fest, SXSW, Life is Beautiful, Austin City Limits, RIOT, SF Sketchfest, and Blue Whale Comedy Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bowers grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and moved to Los Angeles to pursue comedy in 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Byron Bowers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- November 24, 1978 (47)
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Actor, also producer and writer
- 12 on MovieCove · 14 credits in all
What are Byron Bowers' films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
A split, not a type: Light 1 · Serious 1 · Dark 2
A split, not a type: Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 1
Gentle 0 · Charged 1 · Intense 3
A split, not a type: Steady 1 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 2
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
A split, not a type: Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 1
A split, not a type: Casual 1 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 2
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 2
A split, not a type: Resolved 2 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 1
Roles they play
- Allyas Percy in Honey Boy (2019)
- Tricksteras Nelson in Ten Year Old Tom (2021)
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous1
- Cyclical1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Byron Bowers' films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 12 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on HBO Max (4).
Subscription and free streaming for Byron Bowers' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
14 credits, 12 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Wonder Man(2026)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all shows
Lady in the Lake(2024)
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all shows
Big Bruh (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Swarm(2023)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all shows
Byron Bowers: Spiritual N***a (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Irma Vep(2022)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all shows
Kimi(2022)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
Ten Year Old Tom(2021)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows
No Sudden Move(2021)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
Concrete Cowboy(2020)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
Honey Boy(2019)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
The Chi(2018)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all shows
Kuso(2017)
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
The 4th(2016)
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all films
Career shape
Star power in the 92nd percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 14 titles from 2016 to 2026; peak year 2022.
Biggest box office
Honey Boy (2019)
Highest rated
Honey Boy (2019)
Most popular right now
Lady in the Lake (2024)
Film career
Peak 2022 · at the high point of their film career. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2017Screen debut· Kuso
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.
How do Byron Bowers' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 55th percentile, the median of all 6; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 56th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th5
Shape of the crowd
5 of their 12 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved1
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed5
Reviewers score the acting 70/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 73, detractors 40. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Byron Bowers' work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 4 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Byron Bowers work with?
People who share at least 2 of Byron Bowers' MovieCove titles; Noah Jupe shares the most, 2.
- Noah JupeShared titles: Lady in the Lake (2024), Honey Boy (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Noah Jupe
