Edward Brence
Acting
Biography
Edward Brence is an actor originally from Maryland. He received his training at the Actors Studio Drama School where he earned an M.F.A. in Acting. Edward has since gone on to appear in several roles both on onstage and in front of the camera. Most recently, he has portrayed Jasper in season one of the Apple TV+ show Severance (2022), DJ Stretch Armstrong in season two of Hulu's Wu-Tang: An American Saga (2019), and Thief in season one of the Paramount+ show Lioness (2023). While at the Actors Studio Drama School, home of the acclaimed Inside the Actors Studio, Edward has had the privilege of attending master classes hosted by James Lipton, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jessica Chastain, HBO's cast of Girls, Viola Davis, Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Wiig, Ted Danson, Bradley Cooper, Alec Baldwin, Jane Lynch, David Oyelowo, Henry Winkler, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, James Burrows, Kelsey Grammer, Ellen Burstyn, and Al Pacino.
Known For
Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA's Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program, is tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives.
Lioness
Robyn McCall, an enigmatic former CIA operative with a mysterious background, uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn.
The Equalizer
In the early 1990s in New York, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a visionary musician named Bobby Diggs aka The RZA begins to form a super group of a dozen young, black men, who will eventually rise to become one of the unlikeliest success stories in American music history.
Wu-Tang: An American Saga
A workplace accident causes a rift between friends.