Joshua Echebiri
Biography
Joshua Ugwumsinachi Echebiri is an American theatre and screen actor best known for his appearance in The Good Fight on Paramount+. Born in Nigeria in 1993, he grew up in Houston, Texas and graduated from Carnegie Vanguard High School in 2010, after which he enrolled in Dartmouth College where he double majored and received baccalaureates in biology and sociology in 2014. An active stage performer in college, he attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art's Shakespeare Intensive and the British American Drama Academy's Midsummer in Oxford program before matriculating at New York University for their Master of Fine Arts in Acting program. He earned his M.F.A. in 2020 and continues to work professionally on stage and screen while living in Brooklyn, New York.
Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles
Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes • as Rider
The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Russell Greene
After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Devin
Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Steve Hill
A rare condition — face blindness — gives an eccentric yet incredibly gifted neurologist a unique perspective on care, fueling his mission to change the way people see his patients. Alongside a team of brilliant young interns, he solves some of the world's most puzzling psychological cases while navigating the complicated relationships that come with the job.
Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes • as Eric
A 12-year-old boy becomes the lone survivor of a plane crash. As he and others affected by the tragedy try to make sense of what happened, unexpected friendships, romances, and communities are formed.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Self
This documentary follows the cast, crew and staff of the world-famous Public Theater as they prepare to mount an all-black adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives,” at the open-air Delacorte Theater in New York City. Contending with the ever-present threat of COVID-19 and one of the rainiest Julys on record, the production marks the return of live theatre following more than a year of closures in the city.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Slender/Pistol
Experience Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece from the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Set in South Harlem, the play tells the story of the trickster Falstaff and the wily wives who outwit him in a celebration of Black joy, laughter and vitality.