Jonathan Majors (original) (raw)

After a breakout role in 2019’s The Last Man in San Francisco, Jonathan Majors’ star power garnered him critical appeal, and led him to lead appearances in The Harder They Fall, Creed III, and a recurring role as Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The buzzed-up film Magazine Dreams — where he serves as the lead as aspiring bodybuilder Killian Maddox and was initially set for release in December 2023 — was poised to be another win for the actor, but two months prior to it hitting theaters, it was pulled indefinitely amid allegations of domestic violence against Majors, who was arrested in March 2023 for allegedly attacking his then-girlfriend.

Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Majors has described his adolescence as tumultuous in interviews, and acting became his refuge. He pursued the craft in college, graduating from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem in 2012. He moved to New York and later enrolled in the Yale School of Drama in fall of 2013.

It was while at Yale, multiple alumni who noted his talent also noticed his confrontational behavior and alleged physical altercations, as Rolling Stone’s expose in June 2023 details. The report uncovered allegations of “extreme abuse” going back nearly a decade before his arrest in March 2023. Two of his previous romantic partners were allegedly physically and/or emotionally abused, according to a dozen sources who knew the women. Majors allegedly strangled one woman he was dating, and was mentally and emotionally abusive with her, nine of those sources claim. The second woman allegedly told friends that her relationship with Majors was “emotional torture” and there were moments of “near violence,” where he would “get filled with rage” and “hit something or punch a wall.”

Jonathan Majors’ domestic abuse trial stemming from his March 2023 arrest is set to begin in November, 2023. —Althea Legaspi

Date of Birth

Sept. 7, 1989

Place of Birth

Santa Barbara, California

Notable Work

Movies: The Last Man in San Francisco (2019); The Harder They Fall (2021); Creed III (2023); Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Television: Loki