Biography

Lucius Baston Junior, the youngest of three boys, was born in South Richmond Hill Queens, NY to a father who was an Army veteran turned transportation (train) conductor and a mother who was a nurse and home maker. Lucius played high school basketball, and was an 11-year-old disk jockey (DJ) in the early days of Hip-Hop music. Following grade school, Lucius enlisted to the United States Air Force, where he was active duty for 11 years. Shortly after separating from the U.S. Air Force, he worked in the computer chip industry and became an on air radio personality. Lucius's love for music and passion for the entertainment business would lead him to pursue a career in film and television.

Lucius has since aggressively built an impressive body of work with roles in Emmy & Golden Globe Award winning shows like Atlanta (2016), Roots (2016), and Homeland (2011) as well as appearances in Marvel's Loki (2021), Amazon's The Underground Railroad (2021), HBO's Lovecraft Country (2020) and Netflix's Stranger Things (2016). Also, supporting roles in films such as The Best of Enemies (2019), The Front Runner (2018), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and the Ride Along (2014) franchise just to name a few. Now developing projects of his own, Lucius is focused on producing content for multimedia platforms worldwide.

He now resides in Atlanta, GA.
- IMDb mini biography by: Billie Jordan