Kevin L. Johnson is still relatively early in his professional acting career, having first stepped in front of the camera in 2009. But he's been steadily gaining steam and has racked up a handful of impressive projects in recent years. After appearing in a few short films and TV movies, on three episodes of One Tree Hill in 2011, and in the rom-com drama Redneck Roots, Johnson landed roles in 2011's Devil's Crossing and 2012's Destiny Road. He held scored some unnamed supporting gigs like "Valet Parker" on Showtime's Banshee and the uncredited "Forensic Tech" in 2013's Prisoners, but Johnson eventually nabbed a pretty juicy part in a film starring Tom Cruise – American Made.
Directed by Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow helmer Doug Liman, American Made tells the incredible true story of Barry Seal (Cruise) — a former TWA pilot who, after initially being recruited by the CIA, spent much of the '80s running guns, drugs, and cash for Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel. In American Made, Johnson played Agent Horace Wainwright, one of the men tasked with bringing Barry Seal in.
Though he didn't play quite as big a role in American Made has he does on Ozark, Johnson more than held his own opposite some big players in the movie — like Cruise and co-stars Domnhall Gleeson, Jesse Plemmons, Caleb Landry Jones, Jayma Mays, and Lola Kirke, just to name a few.
