Creed

…let him cowrite and direct Creed (2015). The film centers on Adonis Johnson (played by Jordan), the son of Rocky Balboa’s rival-turned-friend Apollo Creed, as he is mentored by Rocky himself (Stallone). A critical and commercial success, Creed earned Stallone an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor and established…

…addition to the Rocky canon, Creed (2015). He won even more notice for his electrifying performance as villain Erik Killmonger in Black Panther (2018), which starred Chadwick Boseman and was directed by Coogler. Also in 2018 he played Guy Montag in a remake of Fahrenheit 451, based on the Ray…

…in the Rocky (1976) sequels Creed (2015) and Creed II (2018). In 2020 she appeared in Perry’s crime drama A Fall from Grace and the horror film Black Box. That year she lent her voice to Pixar’s Soul. Rashad later had a supporting role in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick, tick…BOOM!

The 2015 installment, Creed, was directed by Ryan Coogler and starred Michael B. Jordan as a young boxer being trained by an aging Rocky Balboa. Stallone received his third Oscar nomination, for best supporting actor, for Creed. His last appearance as Balboa was in Creed II (2018), which…

…as Bianca in Ryan Coogler’s Creed, a continuation of the Rocky film franchise, and she reprised the role in the films Creed II (2018) and Creed III (2023). From 2016 to 2022 she portrayed Charlotte Hale in the HBO series Westworld. Thompson ventured into superhero films in Taika Waititi’s