Portrayed by Trai Byers, Andre is the oldest son of hip-hop mogul Lucious (Terrence Howard) and his wife Cookie (Taraji P. Henson).

He is portrayed as the son with the most business acumen and unlike his younger siblings does not want to follow in the Lyon family's musical footsteps.

Rhonda, who is pregnant, is pushed down the stairs by a mystery character in the mid-season finale of season 2, causing her to lose her unborn child.

Andre avenges his wife's and unborn child's deaths in the season 4 finale when he spikes Anika's champagne.

[3] Co-creator Danny Strong said Byers booked the role "partially by walking in and identifying Andre as Iago.

[6] Trai Byers described Andre "ivy league educated business man" who wants to help take his family's company to the "next level."

According to Byers, Andre "dwells in the darker places of me, so I do a lot of shifting through emotions involving abandonment, guilt, and hurt."

Byers praised the decision to make Andre the "straight man in the middle of all of the pizzazz, the fame and fortune.

Not only is Andre in the process of trying to make sure the IPO goes off without a hitch, he is off his medication and the news Lucious is dying from ALS pushes him to the brink.

[7] Most significantly, during the filming of the movie Selma, Byers attended a family reunion in which he witnessed his uncle "talking to himself for an hour, almost in a different voice.

"After Rhonda faced a terrible death in Season 3, Andre was heart-broken and weak without her, because of his Bipolar Disorder, she returns to him in hallucinations.