Tyriq Withers

Personal context

Summary

Tyriq Withers is an actor whose work includes Atlanta, Tell Me Lies, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Him. His roles and interviews have touched on belonging, emotional strain, and ambition; he has said that his own experience navigating biracial identity informs his characters. At Florida State, he joined the black Student Union play and the Diversity Inclusion Institute, which he described as more meaningful to him than football. No public partisan campaigning or broader political activism is on record.