Jermaine Lateef Rivers (born September 22, 1973) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Shatter on Fox/Marvel's television series The Gifted. He is also notable for his role as Officer Carter in the

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Channel television series ''

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''. He also made appearances in Tyler Perry's ''

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'' (2016) and ''The Haves and Have Nots'' (2018).

Early life and career

Rivers was born in

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to Brenda J Rivers and Jerry B Rivers (deceased) who was an active duty US Army service member stationed in Italy until 1975. He graduated from

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in 1992. In 1993 he enlisted in the US Army and attended Basic Training at

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. Rivers served on active duty from 17 March 1993 to 31 May 2013. He had a total of five deployments, two of which were combat tours to

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while assigned with the 22nd Signal Brigade (2002-2003) also

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and

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while under the

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command (2009-2010). Rivers' first role in a feature film was in ''Killing Winston Jones'' starring

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and

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Career

Some of Rivers' earlier film credits include '' The Sacrament''(2013) and ''

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'' (2015). In 2016, Rivers was cast as

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in episode 1x16 of ''MacGyver''. Rivers reprised the role of Frank Colton originally played by

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, a member of The Coltons family of bounty hunters who made frequent appearances in the original

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television series. Rivers' more recent film credits include the suspense thriller '' Hangman'' (2017) starring

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and

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, also '' Den of Thieves'' (2018) starring

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and Curtis (

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) Jackson. Over the years Jermaine Rivers has proven himself to be a diverse actor that can be cast in a multitude of character roles. His performances as Shatter on '' The Gifted'' (2017) showcased his physical abilities as he performed all of his own stunts. His ability to deliver tongue in cheek comedy was made apparently clear in his portrayal of (Rod) in the horror-comedy ''

The Night Sitter ''The Night Sitter'' is a 2018 American comedy horror film directed by Abiel Bruhn and John Rocco. It stars Elyse Dufour, Jack Champion, Jermaine Rivers, Amber Neukum, J. Benedict Larmore, Ben Barlow, Bailey Campbell, Joe Walz, Deanna Meske and M ...

'' (2018). Rivers was recently cast in the role of (Dee) in the Civil War era fil
Freedom's Path (2020)
starring

Ewen Bremner Ewen Bremner (born 23 January 1972) is a Scottish character actor. His roles have included Julien in ''Julien Donkey-Boy'' and Daniel "Spud" Murphy in ''Trainspotting'' and its 2017 sequel ''T2 Trainspotting''. Early life Bremner was born in ...

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and

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Filmography

References

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