Emmy-winning actor Glynn Turman (Fargo, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) is the new face for Beyoncé’s IVY PARK denim line. The announcement was made via an Instagram video the brand posted today.
The actor modeled the new western themed was filmed on Glynn’s own IX Winds ranch in Southern California. Glynn stars in the video opposite his granddaughter, Melinda. Turman’s longtime passion for horses and showcasing the American history of Black cowboys and cowgirls made him a perfect fit for this campaign. Turman is a National US Team Roping Champion finalist and in 2011 was inducted into the Western Heritage Multi-Cultural Museum’s Hall of Fame. And this year for Juneteenth he saw his lifelong work to bring the Black Rodeo to television realized on CBS.
The award-winning actor is coming off an incredibly successful year, winning Best Supporting Actor at the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards and netting an Indie Spirit Award nomination for his role as ‘Toledo’ opposite Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman in Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. He also co-starred with Chris Rock in the most recent season of FX’s Fargo, receiving a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for the role at this year’s Critics Choice Awards. The accolades come after his recent Emmy nomination in 2019 for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama for his role as Nate Lahey Sr. in the Viola Davis led How to Get Away with Murder. He quickly followed that up with a major arc on the most recent season of the David E. Kelley/Jack Bender series Mr. Mercedes, on the Audience Network. Being incredibly in-demand, Turman was also opposite Ben Affleck in the Gavin O’Connor-directed Warner Bros. film The Way Back, earlier this year as well as the Ava Duvernay-produced film Justine, in which he’s also an executive producer, which is now streaming on Netflix.
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