Nicholas Duvernay

Nicholas Duvernay is an actor known for playing Zion Lindsey, the son of Belinda (Natasha Rothwell), in the third season of the HBO series The White Lotus, and for the Netflix film Purple Hearts. He stars as Kel Washington in the Hulu comedy series Not Suitable for Work.

Career

Duvernay grew up in Atlanta, where he began acting training at around the age of 13, and later moved to Los Angeles, he told WWD in 2025. His early credits include Purple Hearts (2022), in which he played a Marine, the Peacock series Bel-Air, and episodes of The Winchesters, Tyler Perry's Assisted Living, The Rookie, Magnum P.I., S.W.A.T. and All American.

He was cast as Zion in the third season of The White Lotus, which was filmed in Thailand and aired in 2025. With the rest of that season's cast he was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series at the 32nd Actor Awards. In 2025 he also appeared in a Banana Republic spring campaign, his first fashion campaign.

In 2026 he took his first series-regular role, as Kel Washington, a medical student and aspiring actor, in Not Suitable for Work, a comedy created by Mindy Kaling that premiered on Hulu in June 2026. He was cast as Roman in Universal's film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's novel Reminders of Him, and in The Love Hypothesis, an adaptation of Ali Hazelwood's novel starring Lili Reinhart.