Justin Chu Cary was born in Oakland, California. He was raised in Berkeley, California. The oldest son of an African American father and a Chinese American mother. With an early pull to visual arts, Cary won a statewide visual art competition in 4th and 6th grade, and has never really looked back. He is an alumnus of Berkeley High School where he ran track and was the captain of his wrestling team. Cary was recruited to the University of California, Davis for Track & Field and ran the 800M and 4x400M relays. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Sociology and a double minor in Theater and Visual Arts. After graduating from UC Davis, Cary moved back to the Bay Area where he became heavily involved in the local theater scene. In 2009, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue film and television. Early on in LA, Cary made a living off of visual art, graphic and web design jobs. He also booked several commercial and modeling campaigns for companies like Nike, Target, Footlocker, Ford, and others. Never pulling away from his love for theater, he also appeared in many small stage productions including, The Meeting, The Death of The Last Black Man In The Whole Entire World, and In The Red and Brown Water, the latter for which he and his cast received the LADCC Award for Best Ensemble. Cary also studied at and performed with the Upright Citizens Brigade and The Actors Gang, and continues to explore his craft at the prestigious Actors Studio. Cary's television debut came with a 6-episode recurring role on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives. Since then, he has made co-star and guest-star appearances on popular shows like Jane the Virgin, Supergirl, S.W.A.T., and NCIS. Cary made the jump to his first feature film in, Blindspotting - a project written by and starring lifelong friends and fellow Berkeley High alumni Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs. In 2018, Cary was cast as a series regular on Netflix's forthcoming, Black Summer (2019).