LaKeith Stanfield

Lakeith Lee "Keith" Stanfield (née le 12 Août 1991) is an American actor and rappeur. He made his feature film debut Short Term 12 (2013), for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. En 2014, il co-starred in the du film d'horreur The Purge: Anarchy and in the Martin Luther King biopic, Selma, as civil right activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. Stanfield appeared in the film Dope (2015). He played rappeur Snoop Dogg, the biopic about the hip-hop groupe N. W. A, Straight Outta Compton (2015), and will appear in the upcoming Oliver Stone biopic Snowden (2015). Stanfield was born in San Bernardino, California and grew up in Riverside and Victorville, en Californie. He has said that he "grew up very poor en a fractured family that was dysfonctionnelles on both sides". He decided to become an actor when he was 14 years old, when he joined his high school's club de théâtre. He attended the John Casablancas Modeling and Career Center, à Los Angeles, where he was signed by agency manager and began to audition for commercials. Stanfield's first role que dans the short film Short Term 12 (2009), which was filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton s thesis project at San Diego State University, and won the Jury Award for U. S. Short Filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival 2009. A year later, he appeared in the short film Gimme Grace (2010), before he gave up acting for several years. He went on to work a number of different jobs—roof work, jardinage, at&T, and at a légalement de la marijuana factory before he was contacted by Cretton to reappear en a feature-length adaptation of Short Term 12, his first feature film. For the duration of the film's de production, Stanfield practiced method acting, distancing himself from the other cast members like his character, Marcus. He was the only actor to appear in both the short and feature film. Short Term 12 won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Caractéristique at the 2013 South by Southwest film festival, and Stanfield ce que nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Fois. The film en vedette "Vicious", a rap chanson co-written with Milgaten, et "So You Know What it's Like", a rap chanson co-written with Cretton, which a number of Oscar pundits predicted would be nominated for aux Academy Award for Best Original Song, although it did not ultimately receive a nomination. En 2014, Stanfield co-starred in The Purge: Anarchy and Selma, dans the latter playing civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. He is set to appear in James Franco s upcoming film Memoria and Don Cheadle s Miles Ahead. Stanfield est-à-dire star dans the fantasy, horreur, thriller film King Ripple, by the Michigan filmmaker Luke Jaden, and the music video for the Run the Jewels chanson "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)". En 2015, he portrayed rappeur Snoop Dogg, the film Straight Outta Compton.