Biography
Jacob Ming-Trent is an American film, television and stage actor based in New Jersey.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Friendship
2025
as Nathan
Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, as Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their...
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
2025
as Clint Foreman
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing co...
Merry Wives
2022
as Falstaff
Experience Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece from the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Set in South Harlem, the play tells the story of the t...
Reopening Night
2021
as Self
This documentary follows the cast, crew and staff of the world-famous Public Theater as they prepare to mount an all-black adaptation of Shakespeare’s...
The Snakes
2021
as Timmy
Set in an alternate future where Roe v. Wade has been overturned, a depressed Black woman, deals with the culture of fear by channeling her rage into ...
R♥️J
2021
as Lawrence
Told entirely through social media and smartphone screens, this bold adaptation of Romeo and Juliet reinvents the world’s most enduring love story wit...
The Forty-Year-Old Version
2020
as Lamont
Desperate for a breakthrough as she nears the big 4-0, struggling New York City playwright Radha finds inspiration by reinventing herself as a rapper.
Finding Julia
2019
as Scott
An acting student is haunted by the early death of her mother.
The Possession of Hannah Grace
2018
as Ernie
When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an ev...
SuperFly
2018
as Frederick "Fat Freddie" Davis
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole opera...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2014
as Tom Stout
A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.
Shrek the Musical
2013
as Papa Ogre / Straw
Put out of his swamp solitude by a wicked tyrant's order, grumpy ogre Shrek goes on a journey – accompanied by a chatterbox donkey – to retrieve a bea...