Smith is repped by TCJ Jed Root, Buffalo 8 and Powell is Repped by J Pervis Talent Agency, Opus Entertainment, POWELL previously worked on CW’s Black Lightning. KJ Smith is represented by Abram Artist Agency, Zero Gravity Management, Terayle Hill is represented by Innovative Artist and Crackerjack Management, while Roger G. Clifton Powell ( Ray) and Roger Guenveur Smith ( Dope) round out the cast in the 100 minute gem produced by Smallwood and her MegaMind Productions along with Audrea Topps Harjo. While having an affair with the sexy artist on the rise who promises her everything, 'Kingston' portrayed by Terayle Hill ( Step Up: High Water), Nicole learns the hard way that looks can be deceiving and his motives are as dark as the secrets she keeps. The riveting drama centering on the collision of money, affairs, power and lies stars KJ Smith ( Sistas, The Family Business) as 'Nicole Wright,' a beautiful and successful music CEO whose life is about to crumble in front of her. He has an adult daughter from a former marriage.Directed by Jamal Hill, the film is a romantic original feature written by Tressa Azarel Smallwood (BET's All In), Jamal Hill (Deuces) and Kyjuan Cleveland. Smith was born in Berkeley, and raised in Los Angeles, where he resides with his wife, the writer LeTania Kirkland, and their three children.
Smith frequently collaborates with composer/videographer Marc Anthony Thompson (Chocolate Genius Inc.) and presents his work at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles. Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, Steven Berkoff's Agamemnon, and the Bessie and Ovation Award-winning Radio Mambo, are also among his directorial credits. He has continued to combine his interests through an ever-evolving stage repertoire which includes Frederick Douglass Now, Christopher Columbus 1992, The Watts Towers Project, In Honor Of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Two Fires, Patriot Act, Juan and John, The End Of Black History Month, Who Killed Bob Marley?, Iceland, and, with Mark Broyard, Inside The Creole Mafia, a "not too dark comedy." Smith's work is frequently developed through intense archival immersion and improvisation,Ī process which informs his performing history workshop, which he currently directs at Cal Arts. Dutton, and John Turturro) Smith studied history, earning an undergraduate degree in American Studies at Occidental College. Before entering the Yale School of Drama ( into a class which included Angela Bassett, Charles S. On HBO, Smith has starred in Steven Soderbergh's K Street, Oz, and Unchained Memories: Readings From The Slave Narrative. Smith's astonishing range is further demonstrated in the cult classics Deep Cover and King Of New York, Eve's Bayou, Hamlet, All About The Benjamins, and American Gangster, for which he was nominated for the Screen Actors' Guild Award. Also among Smith's recent credits are The Birth Of A Nation, and Bitch, which have achieved distinction in three consecutive Sundance Festivals, and the acclaimed indies Mooz-Lum, and Better Mus' Come, in which he plays the Prime Minister of Jamaica. The eclectic range of characters expanded with a Russian roulette-playing gangster in Malcolm X, a guitar-playing cop in Get On The Bus, the street philosopher Big Time Willie in He Got Game, a hardnose detective in Summer Of Sam, and an opportunistic insurance salesman in Chi-Raq. Roger is the son of Helen Marie (Guenveur), a dentist, and Sherman Wendell Smith, a judge. He has appeared in the films Do the Right Thing, Poetic Justice, Panther (1995), and Final Destination, among many other roles. For Lee's Oscar-nominated Do The Right Thing, Smith improvised the stuttering hero, Smiley, after his debut as fraternity pledge Yoda in Lee's first studio film, school daze. Roger Guenveur Smith is an American actor, director, and writer. Newton Story into a Peabody Award-winning telefilm, directed by his longtime colleague Spike Lee, with whom he continues to collaborate in a relationship which is unparalleled in the American cinema.
He adapted his Obie Award-winning solo performance of A Huey P. Roger Guenveur Smith is an internationally acclaimed actor, writer, and director who has created a prolific body of work on stage and screen.
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