Early workshops and roles Adepo moved to
Los Angeles in 2011 after receiving his bachelor's degree. He intended to become a writer, but he started conducting commercial workshops to supplement his income. Through church in Maryland, he had met
Viola Davis's older sister, who helped him get in contact with Davis. Davis directed him to study techniques, attend plays, and read as many plays as he could.
Film and television roles He was part of ''Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons
. He played the role of Lionel Jefferson. In Fences
, he stars as Cory Maxson, the son of the main characters played by Davis and Washington. Adepo was "the only member of the Fences'' cast who did not star in the play's 2010 Broadway revival before it made the jump to feature film." In 2017, he appeared as the central character along with
Wyatt Russell in
Overlord, both playing American paratroopers confronted by Nazi super soldiers. By 2017, he was also a series regular on
The Leftovers on
HBO, Adepo performed in the 2017 horror film
Mother! by
Darren Aronofsky. In May 2019, he appeared as the adult Antron McCray in
When They See Us, nominated for an Emmy, about the
Central Park Five. Adepo played the role of Larry Underwood in the 2020 miniseries adaptation of
Stephen King's
The Stand. In November 2019, he appeared as the central character in the sixth episode of
Watchmen, playing the world's first superhero,
Hooded Justice. Also in November 2019, he was in an unreleased independent film called
Violent Heart, to be released in 2020. In March 2021, he was cast to star in
Babylon. In 2024, Adepo co-starred as one of the major characters in the Netflix science-fiction series "3 Body Problem." He will reprise his role in at least one of the two new seasons greenlit by Netflix. ==Filmography==