Bokeem Woodbine

Actor

Birthday April 13, 1973

Birth Sign Aries

Birthplace New York City, New York, U.S.

Age 50 years old

Nationality United States

#6660 Most Popular

1973

Bokeem Woodbine (born April 13, 1973) is an American actor.

Woodbine was born on April 13, 1973, in Harlem, New York.

He attended the Dalton School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, before transferring to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in the city.

He made his TV acting debut in the CBS Schoolbreak Special entitled "Love Off Limits".

1993

His appearance was noticed by casting director Jaki Brown-Karman, who later recommended him to Forest Whitaker for the latter's directorial effort, the HBO television movie Strapped (1993).

1994

In 1994, he portrayed Joshua, Jason's troubled brother, in Jason's Lyric.

He won a Black Reel Award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award for his role as Kansas City mob enforcer Mike Milligan in the second season of Fargo.

Woodbine also portrayed Daniel in season 2 of the WGN series Underground, Herman Schultz/Shocker in the film Spider-Man: Homecoming, and saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman in the Oscar-winning Ray Charles biopic Ray.

Since then, he has worked with other major African-American filmmakers such as Spike Lee, Mario Van Peebles and the Hughes brothers in the films Crooklyn (1994), Panther (1995) and Dead Presidents (1995), respectively.

1996

In 1996, he appeared in Tupac Shakur's music video for "I Ain't Mad at Cha" and formed a friendship with the rapper.

They subsequently reunited in Vondie Curtis-Hall's directorial debut, Gridlock'd, which was released four months after Shakur's death.

1999

In 1999, Woodbine appeared in an episode of HBO's The Sopranos as New Jersey Gangster rapper Massive Genius.

Woodbine was featured as a regular on the NBC midseason sitcom Battery Park and played Dr. Damon Bradley, who later turned out to be a serial rapist, in the short-lived CBS medical drama City of Angels, the latter of which earned him a nomination for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Additionally, he appeared in the Wu-Tang Clan's music videos for their songs "Protect Ya Neck II (The Jump Off)", "Gravel Pit", and "Careful (Click, Click)".

Woodbine went to portray saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman in the Oscar-winning Ray Charles biopic Ray.

Over the next few years, Woodbine made minor appearances in both film and television.

On the small screen, he could be seen in an episode of Fox's crime drama Bones and ABC's short-lived cop drama The Evidence, as well as two episodes of Spike TV's Blade: The Series, based on Marvel Comics' character and popular film series.

The next year, Woodbine appeared with his Blade: The Series co-star Sticky Fingaz in his musical drama film A Day in the Life, starring Omar Epps and Mekhi Phifer, and two films by Jesse V. Johnson: the low-budget sci-fi/action movie The Last Sentinel (alongside Don "The Dragon" Wilson and Katee Sackhoff), and the action film The Butcher, opposite Eric Roberts.

He also became a series regular, as Leon Cooley, an inmate on death row, in the TNT crime/drama series Saving Grace alongside Holly Hunter.

2009

In 2009, Woodbine appeared in the blaxploitation film Black Dynamite and followed it up the next year with the M. Night Shyamalan-produced supernatural thriller Devil.

2011

He has also appeared as a police officer on the critically acclaimed series Southland (2011).

2012

He next appeared in the 2012 remake of Total Recall and then Riddick the next year.

2015

In December 2015, he received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his role as Mike Milligan in Fargo.

2017

In 2017, Woodbine appeared in the Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios film Spider-Man: Homecoming, as Shocker, one of four villains, alongside Michael Keaton, Logan Marshall-Green and Michael Chernus.

2018

In 2018, Woodbine starred in the series Unsolved.

He played Daryn Dupree, who was part of a police task force that investigated the murders of rappers Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur.

In 2021, Woodbine played Sheriff Domingo in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.