Jermaine Lateef Rivers (born September 22, 1973) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Shatter on Fox/Marvel's television series The Gifted. He is also notable for his role as Officer Carter in the Lifetime Channel television series Devious Maids. He also made appearances in Tyler Perry's If Loving You is Wrong (2016) and The Haves and the Have Nots (2018). In 2025, for six months, he appeared on The Young and the Restless as Damian Kane.
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Early life and career
Rivers was born in Vicenza, Italy on Caserma Ederle to Brenda J Rivers and Jerry B Rivers (deceased), an active duty U.S. Army service member who was stationed in Italy until 1975. He graduated from Fort Campbell High School in 1992. In 1993, he enlisted in the US Army and attended Basic Training at Fort Jackson, SC. Rivers served on active duty from 17 March 1993 to 31 May 2013. He had a total of five deployments, two of which were combat tours to Iraq and Baghdad while assigned with the 22nd Signal Brigade (2002-2003). Rivers also visited Bagram and Khandahar in Afghanistan while under the 16th Sustainment Brigade command (2009-2010). Rivers' first role in a feature film was in Killing Winston Jones starring Danny Glover and Richard Dreyfuss.
Career
Some of Rivers' earlier film credits include The Sacrament (2013) and Magic Mike XXL (2015). In 2016, Rivers was cast as Frank Colton in episode 1x16 of MacGyver. Rivers reprised the role of Frank Colton originally played by Cleavon Little, a member of The Coltons family of bounty hunters who made frequent appearances in the original MacGyver television series. Rivers' film credits include the suspense thriller Hangman (2017) and Den of Thieves (2018). Rivers appeared as Shatter on The Gifted (2017), and Rod in the horror-comedy The Night Sitter (2018). Rivers was cast in the role of Dee in the Civil War era film Freedom's Path starring Ewen Bremner, RJ Cyler and Gerran Howell. In February 2025, Rivers debuted in the role of Damian King on The Young and the Restless. He exited the role six months later.
