English Movie Review Beasts of the Southern Wild - Cast & Crew

Dwight Henry was born in 1962 in Nashville, Tennessee. He is currently based in New Orleans with his wife and five children. He is primarily an entrepreneur and the owner of a bakery, Buttermilk Drop Bakery. Henry never dreamed of a career in films, doesn’t so even now, but fame came to him anyway. He has acted in few but exceptional, award-winning movies – Beasts of the Southern Wild(2012), 12 Years a Slave(2013), The Birth of a Nation(2016) and is currently working on another project titled Sexual Healing. He went on to win the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Wink in his first movie and was nominated for numerous other awards as well. Movies came to him by chance, the auditions of the first film he acted in, Beasts of the Southern Wild, were happening in his neighbourhood, and he went for it “as a favour to a friend”. In an interview later, he said that he didn’t have much trouble identifying with his character, Wink and understanding the film, because his life experience had been quite similar. Henry grew up in a poor family and had to work from an early age to support his family. He recalls an incident from his childhood when he was only two years old. A hurricane had hit his hometown, and his mother took all the children to sit on the roof of their house.