On December 27, 1981, actor Jay Ellis Jr. was born in the United States. Before going to Los Angeles and starting his acting career, he started his career as a model.
In Sumter, South Carolina, he was created. In 2013, he had his first substantial acting opportunity on the BET series The Game.
He joined the cast of the HBO comedy Insecure in 2015, and the program premiered in 2016. He also appears in Top Gun: Maverick and portrays the secondary antagonist in the 2019 horror film Escape Room.
Jay Ellis parents: Meet Paula Ellis, Wendell Ellis Sr.
Wendell Ramone Ellis Jr. was born on December 27, 1981, in Sumter, South Carolina. While his father served in the Air Force, his mother, Paula Bryant-Ellis, worked in finance.
He is the only child in the family. He attended 12 different schools throughout the course of his 13-year education before enrolling at Concordia University in Oregon, where he played basketball.
Ellis worked as a public relations intern with the Portland Trail Blazers during the contentious “Jail Blazers” era.
After his apprenticeship was up, Ellis decided to pursue modelling and started working with Portland-based sportswear companies including Nike, Adidas, and Columbia Sportswear.
