environment and climate | January 02, 2026

Who plays the elephant in Payday 2? Meet Bokeem Woodbine

American actor Bokeem Woodbine was born on April 13, 1973. He played Joshua, Jason’s wayward brother, in the 1994 film Jason’s Lyric. For his performance as Mike Milligan, a mafia enforcer in Kansas City, in the second season of Fargo, he received a Black Reel Award, as well as nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics’ Choice Television Award.

In addition, Woodbine played Herman Schultz/Shocker in the movie Spider-Man: Homecoming and Daniel in season two of the WGN television series Underground. In the Oscar-winning Ray Charles film Ray, he played saxophonist David “Fathead” Newman, which made him famous. He portrayed Daryn Dupree, a police task force member who worked on the Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur murder investigations.

Who plays the elephant in Payday 2? Meet Bokeem Woodbine

Bokeem Woodbine plays the elephant in Payday 2. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics’ Choice Television Award in December 2015 for his performance as Mike Milligan in the television series Fargo.