Jacob Ming-Trent

Acting

Jacob Ming-Trent

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Jacob Ming-Trent is an American film, television and stage actor based in New Jersey.

Acting credits

The Possession of Hannah Grace poster
5.6

When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.

The Possession of Hannah Grace

2018

Friendship poster
6.4

Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, and his attempts to make an adult male friend threatens to ruin both of their lives.

Friendship

2025

SuperFly poster
6.7

Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.

SuperFly

2018

Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer poster
6.9

A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.

Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer

2025

The Forty-Year-Old Version poster
6.7

Desperate for a breakthrough as she nears the big 4-0, struggling New York City playwright Radha finds inspiration by reinventing herself as a rapper.

The Forty-Year-Old Version

2020

Shrek the Musical poster
7.1

Put out of his swamp solitude by a wicked tyrant's order, grumpy ogre Shrek goes on a journey – accompanied by a chatterbox donkey – to retrieve a beautiful princess from a tower, unaware that she has secrets all her own.

Shrek the Musical

2013

R♥️J poster
6.6

Told entirely through social media and smartphone screens, this bold adaptation of Romeo and Juliet reinvents the world’s most enduring love story with style and lyricism, with black and brown youth at the heart of it all.

R♥️J

2021

Finding Julia poster
NR

An acting student is haunted by the early death of her mother.

Finding Julia

2019

A Midsummer Night's Dream poster
6.3

A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

2014

Reopening Night poster
6.0

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.

Reopening Night

2021

Merry Wives poster
NR

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.

Merry Wives

2022

The Snakes poster
6.0

Set in an alternate future where Roe v. Wade has been overturned, a depressed Black woman, deals with the culture of fear by channeling her rage into violent fantasies.

The Snakes

2021