Adonis Creed

Adonis "Donnie" Creed (born Adonis Johnson) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Creed films— Creed (2015), Creed II (2018), and Creed III (2023) — the sequel series to the Rocky films. The character is played by Michael B. Jordan in all three installments. In the fictional setting of the films, Donnie is the illegitimate son of the late and former world champion Apollo Creed, the result of an affair between him and a woman with the surname Johnson who died sometime in the 1990s. Donnie spends the first several years of his life in foster care and juvenile hall, until he is subsequently adopted by Mary Anne Creed, Apollo's widow. He lives a life of luxury and maintains a stable white-collar job, only to abandon it to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a professional boxer. He goes to Philadelphia and convinces his late father's friend Rocky Balboa to train and mentor him.