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Winston Duke

Winston Duke

Actor, also producer · Born November 15, 1986 (39) · Argyle, Trinidad and Tobago

Screen Actors Guild Award winner

Winston Duke (born 15 November 1986) is a Tobagonian actor. Duke was born in Tobago and moved to Brooklyn, New York, United States, at age nine. Duke began his career with minor roles in theatre productions and recurring roles on the CBS science fiction series Person of Interest (2014–2015) and the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2016). He rose to prominence after playing M'Baku in several films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is one of the highest-grossing media franchises. He has since taken roles in the horror film Us (2019), the fantasy drama film Nine Days (2020), and the action comedy films Spenser Confidential (2020) and The Fall Guy (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Winston Duke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
November 15, 1986 (39)
From
Argyle, Trinidad and Tobago
Works as
Actor, also producer
Titles
12 on MovieCove · 17 credits in all
TMDB popularity, last 157 days to Oct 28Down 41% in 30 days

What are Winston Duke's films like?

Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Self.

What they feel like to watch

their average across 6 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

A split, not a type: Grounded 2 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 3

Gentle 0 · Charged 3 · Intense 3

Steady 1 · Shifting 5 · Whiplash 0

A split, not a type: Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 1

Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 4 · Relentless 1

Casual 0 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 2

A split, not a type: Easy watch 2 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 3

A split, not a type: Resolved 4 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 2

Roles they play

6 analyzed roles

Usually the Ally: 2 of 6 analyzed roles.

Ally
2 of 6
Trickster
1 of 6
Hero
1 of 6
Shapeshifter
1 of 6
Mentor
1 of 6

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
4
Melancholic
4
Thrilling
3
Dread
1
Contemplative
1
Other
7

How their films end · 1 with a twist

  • Happy2
  • Bittersweet4

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 Winston Duke's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 10 of their 12 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Disney+ (5).

Subscription and free streaming for Winston Duke's 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

17 credits, 12 with a MovieCove page; 10 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • Black Panther 3 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2028)

    as M'Baku

  • Avengers: Doomsday (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    as M'Baku

  • The Fall Guy(2024)

    as Dan Tucker

    Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
  • Nine Days(2020)

    Executive Producer · as Will

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
  • Invincible(2021)

    Show 3 episodes · as Space Racer (voice)

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all shows
  • Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
  • Avengers: Endgame(2019)

    as M'Baku

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
  • Us(2019)

    as Gabe Wilson / Abraham

    Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
  • Avengers: Infinity War(2018)

    as M'Baku

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
  • Black Panther(2018)

    as M'Baku

    Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
  • Person of Interest(2011)

    Show 7 episodes · as Dominic · as Mini

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows
  • Modern Family(2009)

    Show 3 episodes · as Dwight

    Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit(1999)

    Show 1 episode · as Cedric Jones

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
  • Heroine (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Actor

  • Slime (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as (voice)

  • Spenser Confidential 2 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Hawk

Career shape

Star power in the 95th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 17 titles, 12 of them dated from 1999 to 2024; peak year 2020.

Film career

MilestoneAward win
19992024

Peak 2020 · steadily prominent in film for years. 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.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting17 of 17: 16 only acting, 1 with another role · typical Midcredits score89thProducing1 of 17: 0 only producing, 1 with another role

By decade

1990s1 · acting2000s1 · acting2010s5 · acting2020s5 · 5 acting · 1 crew

Billing

usually 2nd · top billed in 17% of 6 roles

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.

Awards

Won a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2019, Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

How do Winston Duke's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 79th percentile, the median of all 8; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 79th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

79thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 6

Approval · how many liked their films

72ndpercentile
Typical film, the median of 6

Reach · how many have seen their films

95thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 6

Midcredits score across 12 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up10
  • 50th to 74th2

Shape of the crowd

None of their 12 titles divides audiences: 6 are Universally Loved.

  • Universally Loved6
  • Crowd Pleaser6

Reviewers score the acting 75/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles; fans 82, detractors 47. 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 Winston Duke's work okay for kids?

Across up to 6 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore, profanity and frightening / intense run heavier than most films and sex & nudity lighter.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore6 titles41–80 · median 58 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity6 titles11–34 · median 17 · mildlighter than most filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity6 titles34–77 · median 57 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 36
Alcohol & Drugs6 titles8–41 · median 34 · mildnear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 33
Frightening / Intense6 titles42–73 · median 52 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 39

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.

Who does Winston Duke work with?

People who share at least 2 of Winston Duke's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Lupita Nyong'o shares the most, 3.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers and editors

Producers