André Holland Is Restoring an Old Movie Theater in His Alabama Birthplace — with His ‘Incredible’ Mother (Exclusive)

As if restoring an old cinema wasn’t enough, André is also busy running the production company that brought 2019’s High Flying Bird and 2020 mini-series The Eddy to the screen. This year in addition to Exhibiting Forgiveness, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, he also played Walter Fauntroy in Shirley Chisholm biopic Shirley and led Apple TV+ series The Big Cigar.

“I’m also in school,” reveals the actor-producer. “I’m doing a master’s degree at the Harvard Divinity School. I’ve loved every second of it. The program is called Master’s of Religion and Public Life, which is all about how to have our work, my work as an artist, have a greater impact in the world through the academic study of religion. It’s been an amazing experience.”

Exhibiting Forgiveness, which costars Andra Day, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, John Earl Jelks and Ian Foreman, is in theaters now.