Actor CARL LUMBLY To Appear At Baltimore Comic Con

Baltimore Comic-Con 2025 Welcomes Carl Lumbly

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - August 4, 2025 - Come to the Baltimore Comic-Con on October 17-19, 2025 at the Inner Harbor's Baltimore Convention Center. The Baltimore Comic-Con welcomes media guest Carl Lumbly to this year's event. Tickets are now available on our website!

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Carl Lumbly is an actor with over 150 credits in theatre, film, television, and voiceover, with extensive critical acclaim for his work.

A familiar face on television, Lumbly made a memorable appearance in Marvel's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier for Disney+. The veteran actor played Marvel's forgotten super-solider, Isaiah Bradley, the first Captain America. Lumbly reprised his role of Isaiah Bradley in Captain America: Brave New World.

For the big screen, Lumbly starred as Dick Hallorann in Warner Bros.' supernatural thriller, Stephen King's Doctor Sleep  the imaginative continuation of The Shining storyline. The film was directed by Mike Flanagan from his own screenplay based upon King's best-selling novel.

Lumbly reunited with Mike Flanagan in The Fall of the House of Usher, based on various works from Edgar Allan Poe, starring as legendary investigator C. Auguste Dupin.

Now in his third collaboration with Flanagan, Lumbly has been cast in Intrepid Pictures' horror feature, The Life of Chuck, based on the Stephen King novella of the same name from the 2020 anthology If It Bleeds. The independent film is written and directed by Flanagan and will be released theatrically by Neon.

Lumbly portrayed CIA agent Marcus Dixon, the gentle, mild-mannered field partner to agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) for five seasons on ABC's hit drama series Alias. He also previously starred in FOX's drama series M.A.N.T.I.S., playing an independently wealthy paraplegic scientist/crime fighter, marking the first black superhero on series television.

He had a recurring role as classic DC character M'yrnn J'onzz, the father of J'onn J'onzz the Martian Manhunter on The CW television series Supergirl. He previously voiced action hero J'onn J'onzz/Martian Manhunter in the Cartoon Network's animated series Justice League. He also had recurring roles on NBC's This Is Us, CBS' S.W.A.T., Showtime's The Chi, and CBS' NCIS: Los Angeles, along with guest-starring roles on CBS' God Friended Me, Netflix's Altered Carbon, and HISTORY's military action drama, Six.

Lumbly appeared in award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson's Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, which received a Grammy Award nomination in the category of "Best Music Film." He voiced the iconic jazz musician in this feature-length documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and screened theatrically to wide acclaim.

His impressive feature credits include Men of Honor, Everybody's All-American, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, South Central, Pacific Heights, To Sleep With Anger, The Bedroom Window, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Caveman, Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation, and A Cure for Wellness.

Lumbly, the son of Jamaican immigrants Carrol and Ida, was raised with three sisters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He moved to Los Angeles, where he signed with an agent, followed by a move to New York. He landed his first significant on-screen role in a movie-of-the-week, Cagney and Lacey, which turned into the hit series. More importantly, CBS cast the beautiful and talented actress, Vonetta McGee, as his wife on the show. They fell in love, married and had a beautiful son, Brandon, and a beautiful life together. Lumbly starred as Detective Marcus Petrie for the show's seven-year run.

Lumbly's versatility spans a range of characters, from his NAACP Image Award-nominated work in TNT's Buffalo Soldiers, to a wealthy, black entrepreneur in Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding. He starred in the Showtime telefilm Just a Dream. He also starred in the telefilms Color of Friendship, Little Richard, On Promised Land, The Ditchdigger's Daughters, Nightjohn, and Sounder.

His additional television credits include a recurring role on the TNT cop drama, Southland, where he played old-school, no-nonsense LAPD Captain Joel Rucker. He appeared in the ensemble cast of A&E's suspense series The Returned, and has made numerous guest-starring appearances on such popular television series as NCIS, Criminal Minds, Chuck, Grey's Anatomy, Cold Case, Battlestar Galactica, The West Wing, ER, and The X-Files.

"It is very exciting for us to host such an accomplished actor," said Marc Nathan, show promoter for the Baltimore Comic-Con. "His resume is vast, and both his face and voice are immediately recognizable. He has featured in so many great movies, including genre titles in and adjacent to comics, and we couldn't be happier to have Baltimore’s Captain America with us in 2025!"