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Smith also had a recurring role in the hit HBO series Oz. Most recently he played the role of "Isaiah" in the 2016 film The Birth of a Nation, a film about the life of Nat Turner. Smith was in the 2007 film American Gangster with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, in which he played the role of "Nate", Frank Lucas's army connection in Vietnam. In 2006, he played the main villain in the straight-to-video actioner Mercenary for Justice, opposite Steven Seagal. In 2000, he portrayed Agent Screck in the first installment of the Final Destination horror films. He also played a villain in All About the Benjamins (2002) with Ice Cube. Smith starred with Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum in the 1992 film Deep Cover.
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He portrayed a corrupt detective in the martial arts/crime film Fist of the Warrior, alongside Ho-Sung Pak and Sherilyn Fenn. Searching to find out more about Roger Guenveur Smith We have a full Biography, Photos, Theatre Credits, Videos and more Check out Roger Guenveur Smiths. Smith was also the voice of Bao-Dur in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords.
Also in 2003, Smith read in the HBO documentary, Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives the film, based on interviews conducted by the WPA in the 1930s with formerly enslaved African Americans, is a compilation of slave narratives with actors emulating the original conversation with the interviewer.
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In 2003, he had a starring role in the Steven Soderbergh/ George Clooney TV series K-Street on HBO. In addition to his performances in major studio productions, Smith continues to work in and support independent film projects. Newton, for which Smith received an Obie Award, a performance was later filmed by Spike Lee and released in 2001. He acted in the films such as Do The Right Thing, He Got Game, Poetic Justice, Get On The Bus, and King of New York which was directed by Lee. Smith is an actor known for his collaborations with filmmaker Spike Lee. The couple has an age difference of twenty years. Newton Story, a one-man theatre performance based on the life of Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Roger Guenveur Smith wife LeTania Kirkland is a yoga teacher and lifestyle blogger. In 1996, he starred in the self-written and produced A Huey P. During the 1990s, he had a recurring role on A Different World. He has appeared in films such as School Daze, Do the Right Thing, King of New York, Deep Cover, Panther, Malcolm X, Poetic Justice, Get On The Bus, Eve's Bayou, He Got Game, and Summer of Sam. In film, Smith has collaborated with Spike Lee on several works. Additionally, Smith studied at the Keskidee Arts Centre in London, England. He attended Loyola high school in Los Angeles, Occidental College (American Studies) in Los Angeles and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he successfully auditioned for the Drama School, switching from his pursuit of a graduate degree in History.
The title is a play on a common mispronunciation of "Muslim." I shrug when President Obama, despite his childhood in Indonesia, pronounces the term as "Muz-lem," though that is still better than the archaic "Moslem." The point here is not that anyone is intentionally mispronouncing the name.Smith was born in 1955 in Berkeley, California, the son of Helen Guenveur, a dentist, and Sherman Smith, a judge.
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The movie opens nationally on Friday, 2/11. Simply, it is a story of a man trying to hide from the boy within him, just as all hell is about to break loose. He is a Muslim college student, enrolling in the Fall of 2001. Estranged from his mother and sister, he spent his youth living at times with a strict, religious father and at times in a local madrassa (Islamic seminary). Based on true events, it follows the story of Tariq (Evan Ross, son of Diana Ross) as he begins college, hoping to escape his childhood struggles.
Qasim Basir presents his first feature film, "Mooz-lum," featuring Danny Glover, Nia Long, and Roger Guenveur Smith.
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