Comic Con Liverpool 2026: Omari Hardwick and Power

Comic Con Liverpool’s October 2026 edition offered a timely reason to revisit the career of Omari Hardwick, whose name appeared in Monopoly Events’ October autograph listings. The convention was scheduled across Liverpool’s waterfront venues on 10–11 October, bringing together screen entertainment, gaming, comics and cosplay. For followers of Power, his inclusion connected that broad programme with one of television’s most recognisable crime-drama protagonists, James “Ghost” St. Patrick.

Power and the role Omari Hardwick almost turned down

The defining credit remains Power, in which Omari Hardwick played James “Ghost” St. Patrick for six seasons. His official biography records NAACP Image Awards for leading actor in a drama series in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The part placed him at the centre of a dramatic narrative developed over years.

The route to the part was less straightforward than its eventual prominence suggests. In a 2017 Awards Daily interview, Omari Hardwick recalled initially rejecting the project and feeling hesitant about becoming the first name on the call sheet. After a family holiday, his manager told him the producers had not accepted that refusal. A meeting changed his mind within ten minutes; he subsequently went through the audition process. His account makes the breakthrough feel contingent on a conversation, rather than inevitable.

The same interview supplies a revealing production anecdote. Discussing the second-season confrontation with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Omari Hardwick said they performed their own stunts and that he sustained a small tear in his left knee. He described a twelve-hour working day and surgery two months later. These were recollections published in 2017, giving a concrete sense of the physical work behind the series’ confrontations.

From independent cinema to Army of the Dead

The filmography also rewards looking beyond the best-known role. Omari Hardwick worked with Ava DuVernay on I Will Follow and Middle of Nowhere, appeared in Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna, and took a role in Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass. His credits also include For Colored Girls and Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You. Together, those films reveal an actor moving between independent drama, historical filmmaking, comic-book action and social satire.

Army of the Dead extended that range into Zack Snyder’s combination of zombie horror and heist cinema. Released by Netflix in 2021, the film follows mercenaries entering a quarantined Las Vegas after a zombie outbreak. Omari Hardwick joined an international ensemble that included Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell and Matthias Schweighöfer, connecting his television profile with another substantial genre audience.

A useful behind-the-scenes detail comes from Netflix’s own production account: Zack Snyder served as director of photography as well as co-writer, producer and director. The studio described him working with his camera close at hand on set. That unusually direct involvement in the image-making offers context for the film’s visual identity and for the different creative environments through which Omari Hardwick has moved.

Star Trek Section 31 adds another fandom

By the October 2026 convention, Star Trek: Section 31 had added a further franchise to the actor’s credits. Paramount records the film’s premiere as 24 January 2025 and identifies Omari Hardwick as Alok Sahar, alongside Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou. This is a significant addition to a profile centred on Power: it gives science-fiction audiences their own connection to the actor.

Alok Sahar is described as the strategist leading a special team of Section 31 operatives, motivated by a desire to make amends for his past. That official character description suggests an interesting comparison with the morally complicated roles elsewhere in the actor’s work. Read as a career pattern, rather than a claim about his intentions, it highlights repeated opportunities to play authority figures whose histories complicate their decisions.

Grammy nominations highlight Omari Hardwick’s poetry

Poetry deserves equal attention in this retrospective. Omari Hardwick received a 2025 Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album with Concrete & Whiskey Act II Part 1: A Bourbon 30 Series. The following year, Pages, credited to Omari Hardwick and Anthony Hamilton, was nominated in the same category. The shared credit matters: the 2026 nomination recognises a collaboration, and both achievements should be described as nominations rather than wins.

There is an earlier theatrical thread, too. His official biography records that Omari Hardwick co-wrote and performed the one-man show HerO: A Work in Progress in 2018, exploring life, love and loss through the experience of a Black man growing up in Georgia. Seen alongside the poetry recordings, that work broadens the portrait of an artist whose career includes personal writing and live performance as well as roles created for the screen.

Liverpool’s waterfront convention beyond the guest list

The venue’s official October listing describes an event extending across the Convention Centre, Exhibition Centre, M&S Bank Arena and The Auditorium. Its advertised activities included celebrity photographs and autographs, live panels, cosplay competitions, retro and modern gaming, props, set builds, merchandise and artwork. That range provides the setting for a guest roster whose appeal crosses television, cinema and other forms of popular culture.
For Omari Hardwick, those overlapping interests make the career itself the strongest story: Power provides the central television connection, Army of the Dead and Star Trek: Section 31 extend it into genre cinema, and poetry introduces a different kind of performance. Taken together, these verified credits offer a fuller understanding of the artist represented in Liverpool’s October line-up.

Event recap

Omari Hardwick in the October guest programme.
Where : United Kingdom, Liverpool, Liverpool Experience Campus, King's Dock, 16 Monarchs Quay, Halls 1B
When : The 10–11 October 2026 edition.
What : Omari Hardwick was included in the organiser’s October autograph listings, linking the event with his work across Power, film, science fiction and spoken-word poetry.

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