Brown is quite busy these days with appearances in Black Panther, the TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the films Hotel Artemis and Shane Black’s The Predator, as well as his recurring role on the hit series This Is Us.
According to Deadline, Emmy-award winning actor Sterling K. Brown, of This is Us and The Predator fame, has landed the role of Coach Willie Davis in Sony’s true-life sports drama Rise.
The film will be directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan (How Stella Got Her Groove Back) from a script by Randy Brown and Gregory Allen Howard.
He is also slated to lend his voice to the animated films The Angry Birds Movie 2 and Frozen II, both due later this year.