Ronnie Rowe (actor)

Ronnie Fitzroy Rowe Jr., credited professionally as Ronnie Rowe or Ronnie Rowe Jr., is a Canadian film and television actor. He is most noted for his film role as the title character in Black Cop, for which he won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017,[1] and his recurring role as Lieutenant R. A. Bryce in the television series Star Trek: Discovery.[2]

He is slated to have a major role in the forthcoming drama series The Porter.[3] The series focuses on a group of 1920s railway workers who unite to form the world’s first Black union, and depicts the Black community in St. Antoine, Montreal, which was known at the time as the “Harlem of the North.” The characters are from Canada, the Caribbean, and the U.S. and arrived in the community via the Underground Railroad and through the Great Migration.[4]

  1. ^ "Never Steady, Never Still takes the big prizes at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards". The Georgia Straight. January 9, 2018.
  2. ^ Joe Skurzewski, "Cast of 'Star Trek Discovery' to take over 2020 iMagicon in Minot". KFYR-TV, November 21, 2019.
  3. ^ Greg David, "CBC sets fall schedule and unveils 2021-22 programming slate, including over 35 original series from Canadian creators". TV, eh?, June 2, 2021.
  4. ^ "Aml Ameen, Ronnie Rowe Jr. and Mouna Traoré Cast In CBC/ BET+ Drama Series 'The Porter'". BlackFilmandTV.com. April 8, 2023.