Bokeem Woodbine is an American actor known for his roles in films and TV shows such as Brotherhood, The Rock, Spawn, Fargo, and others. he gets in crime genre projects. In the article, we will take a closer look at the filmography of the actor.
Biography
Bukem Woodbine (pictured below) was born in 1973 in Harlem, an area located in upstate New York. He studied at the elite D alton School in Manhattan, and then transferred to the equally prestigious Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, where he studied music, theater and visual arts.
Bukem is actively interested in music. He composes songs and is the guitarist in his own rock band. And how a martial artist tries to keep fit, improving his kung fu under the guidance of Shi Yanming, the founder of the first Shaolin temple in the United States.
Black presidents
The filmography of Bukem Woodbine began when the guy was 20 years old. Helped him with this.mother, who at that time was also an actress. He first starred in an episode of the American teen television series School Holiday Special, which aired on CBS from 1984 to 1996. He then played prisoner Diquan Mitchell in the HBO television drama Broken (1993). A year later, he received another place in the main cast, playing Joshua, the younger brother of the protagonist, in Doug McHenry's melodrama "The Bonds of Brotherhood".
In 1995, Bokeem Woodbine played one of the main roles in Mario Van Peebles's drama Panthera, which tells the story of the Black Panthers political movement, created in the 1960s to protect blacks from arbitrary rule and violence by the state. Sergeant Cleon played in the action movie by Albert and Alain Hughes "Dead Presidents" (1995). He tried on the image of the Marine Crisp in the Michael Bay thriller The Rock (1996). And the role of the recently released prisoner Daryl Allen, who faces a new term, he played in Darin Scott's crime drama "Black Business" (1998).
Rescue the sniper
The mute prisoner, nicknamed Can't Get Right, Bokeem Woodbine played in Ted Demme's comedy-drama For Life (1999). He starred in Damien Lichtenstein's action adventure 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) starring Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner. In the role of detective Steve Grant, investigating a series of murders committed by a vampire, he acted in the horror film Spawn (2001) by Michael Oblowitz. And the image of Jake Cole, a US Army sniper placed on death row,tried on in the action movie Craig R. Baxley "Sniper 2" (2002).
The role of David Fathead Newman, a famous American saxophonist, was cast in Taylor Hackford's biopic Ray (2004). Once again, he played a prisoner who finds it difficult to adapt to life on the loose in Lawrence Page's action movie Champion's Blood (2005). He acted as a pimp in the dramatic film by Laurie Petty "House of Poker" (2007). And from 2007 to 2009, he played the role of Leon Cooley, a man awaiting execution on death row, in Nancy Miller's crime drama Save Grace (2007 - 2010).
Marine Club
One of the main roles of Bokeem Woodbine was in the horror film by John Eric Dowdle "The Devil" (2010). In the role of Garry, partner and best friend of the protagonist, he starred in Len Wiseman's sci-fi action movie Total Recall (2012). He played the role of Corporal Danny Ketner in the military drama Don Michael Paul "Marines 2" (2014). And Michael Milligan, a mercenary sent to deal with the Gerhardt family, played in the second season of Noah Hawley's crime drama Fargo (2014 - …).
In 2017, the actor starred in the second season of Misha Green and Joe Pokaski's drama series Underground (2016 - 2017). He played Herman Schultz, a talented engineer and inventor who became the new Shocker, in John Watts' superhero action movie Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). And he played the role of Tim Pitt, the club bouncer, in James Cox's biographical drama The ClubBillionaires” (2018).
What to expect?
Several more projects with Bokeem Woodbine are expected in the near future. In 2018, Julius Avery's mystical action movie "Overlord" will premiere. David Samel's television drama Main Justice is also in production and Jim Michael's thriller In the Shadow of the Moon is in pre-production.
