Bokeem Woodbine
Bokeem Woodbine was born in Harlem, New York, United States on April 13th, 1973 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 51, Bokeem Woodbine biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Career
Woodbine, a stand-in and extra in Ernest Dickerson's debut film, Juice (1992), starring Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps, gained attention from his mother. He made his TV debut in the CBS Schoolbreak Special "Love Off Limits" in the upcoming year. Casting director Jaki Brown-Karman, who later recommended him to Forest Whitaker for the latter's directorial venture, the HBO television film Strapped (1993), noticed him. Since then, he has worked with several major African-American filmmakers, including Spike Lee, Mario Van Peebles, and the Hughes Brothers in the films Crooklyn (1994), Panther (1995) and Dead Presidents (1995).
He appeared in Shakur's "I Ain't Mad at Cha" music video in 1996 and began a friendship with the rapper. The pair were later reunited in Vondie Curtis-Hall's debut, Gridlock'd, which was released four months after Shakur's death. Massive Genius, a New Jersey Gangster rapper, appeared in an episode of HBO's The Sopranos in 1999.
Woodbine appeared in the short-lived CBS medical drama City of Angels as a regular on the NBC midseason sitcom Battery Park and played Dr. Damon Bradley, who later became a serial rapist, earning him a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. In addition, he appeared in Wu-Tang Clan's music videos for their songs "Protect Ya Neck II (The Jump Off)", "Gravel Pit", and "Careful (Click, Click)." In the Oscar-winning Ray Charles biopic Ray, Woodbine would play saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman.
Woodbine made minor film and television appearances over the next few years. He could be seen on the small screen 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 Legend, based on Marvel Comics' character and a classic film series. Woodbine appeared in Blade: The series co-star Sticky Fingaz's musical drama film A Day in the Life, starring Omar Epps and Mekhi Phifer, as well as Don "The Dragon" Wilson and Katee Sackhoff), and Jesse V. Johnson's The Last Sentinel, opposite Eric Roberts, in the low-budget sci-fi/action film The Butcher. Leon Cooley, an inmate on death row in the TNT crime/drama series Saving Grace with Holly Hunter, became a series regular.
Woodbine appeared in the blaxploitation film Black Dynamite in 2009 and then followed it up with the M. Night Shyamalan-produced supernatural thriller Devil the next year. He has also appeared on the critically acclaimed film Southland (2011). He appeared in the 2012 remake of Total Recall and then Riddick the next year.
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 in December 2015.
Woodbine appeared in the Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios film Spider-Man: Homecoming as Shocker, one of the four villains, alongside Michael Keaton, Logan Marshall-Green, and Michael Chernus. Woodbine appeared in the film Unsolved in 2018. Daryn Dupree, who was part of a police task force that looked at rappers Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur's murders, was played. In 2021, Woodbine played Sheriff Domingo in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.