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André Holland stars as Matt Miller in the sixth installment of American Horror Story: Roanoke.

Career Highlights

A native of Birmingham, Alabama, André Holland earned an undergraduate degree from Florida State University before receiving his MFA from New York University’s Graduate Acting Program. Shortly after graduation, he received acclaim for his tour-de-force performance as four generations of a family in the play Blue Door at Playwrights Horizons.Holland starred as “Dr. Algeron Edwards” in Steven Soderbergh’s critically-acclaimed Cinemax series The Knick, opposite Clive Owen, for which he received a 2015 Satellite Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film as well as a 2016 Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Among his television credits are 1600 Penn, Damages, Burn Notice, Friends with Benefits, Law &amp; Order, and The Black Donnellys.In film, his performance as “Andrew Young” in Paramount Pictures’ Selma, based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches, earned Holland a 2015 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Holland’s other film credits include Black or White, opposite Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer; 42, opposite Harrison Ford and Chadwick Boseman; Bride Wars; Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna; and the acclaimed 2008 independent film Sugar, which marked his feature film debut.Holland made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award®-winning 2009 revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Belasco Theatre. He also starred in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s 2011 presentation of The Whipping Man at the Manhattan Theatre Club as well as the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park productions of All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure; Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It.His additional theater credits include Off-Broadway productions of The Brother/Sister Plays and Wig Out; Tempest Tossed and Romeo and Juliet with the NYU/Continuum Company; In the Red and Brown Water, at Georgia’s Alliance Theatre; and Andorra, at London’s Young Vic. Holland next can be seen in Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, alongside Naomie Harris and Mahershala Ali.He currently resides in New York City.

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André Holland stars as Matt Miller in the sixth installment of American Horror Story: Roanoke.

André Holland headshot in checkered white button down and red v neck sweater and glasses in dark room with half face shadowed

André Holland as Matt Miller | AHS: Roanoke | FX

American Horror Story: Roanoke

André Holland

Career Highlights

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André Holland as Matt Miller | AHS: Roanoke | FX

André Holland

Wes Bentleyas Dylan

Evan Petersas Rory Monahan

Wes Bentley
as Dylan

Evan Peters
as Rory Monahan