Bokeem Woodbine

Bokeem Woodbine: Biography in Details

Who is Bokeem Woodbine?

Bokeem Woodbine is an American actor who came to fame for his role as Mike Milligan in the second season of Fargo. He portrayed Herman Schultz/Shocker in Spider-Man: Homecoming.

For his performance in Fargo, he won a Black Reel Award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics’ Choice Television Award. He also portrays Daniel in WGN’s Underground in season 2.

Bokeem Woodbine: Age, Parents, Siblings, Family, Ethnicity, Nationality

Bokeem Woodbine was born on April 13, 1973, in Harlem, New York, United States of America. He falls under African-American ethnic background and comes from American nationality.

His nickname is Bo. Bokeem Woodbine was highly influenced by his mother who herself was an actress during her very age. And Bokeem’s father was working in a hospital and his father and mother later got divorced due to their mutual misunderstanding.

In which school did Bokeem Woodbine attend?

Bokeem Woodbine attended the prestigious Dalton School on Manhattan’s Upper East Side before transferring to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art performing Arts in the city.

Bokeem Woodbine: Professional Life, Career, Awards

Bokeem Woodbine’s Early journey in his career was started with minor roles in the early stage of time. He entered showbiz at the age of 19 as a stand-in and extra in Ernest Dickerson’s directorial debut, the hip-hop classic Juice (1992), starring Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps. In the following year, he made his Tv acting debut in the CBS Schoolbreak Special entitled “Love Off Limits”.

His appearances were noticed by casting director Jaki Brown-Karman who later recommended him to Forest Whitaker for the latter’s directional effort, the HBO television Strapped (1993). Since then, he has worked with other major African American filmmakers such as Spike Lee, Mario Van Peebles, and the Hughes Brothers in the films Crooklyn (1994), Panther (1995), and Dead Presidents (1995), respectively.

In 1996, Bokeem Woodbine appeared in Tupac’s music video for “I Ain’t Mad at Cha” and formed a friendship with the rapper. They subsequently reunited in Vondie Curtis-Hall’s directional debut, Gridlock’d, which was released four months after Tupac’s death.

Entering the new millennium, Woodbine was featured as a regular on the NBC midseason sitcom Battery park and played Dr. Damon Bradley, who later turned out to be a serial rapist, in the short-lived CBS medical drama City of Angels, the latter of which earned him a nomination for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Additionally, Bokeem Woodbine appeared in the Wu-Tang Clan’s music videos for their songs “Protect Ya Neck”, “Gravel Pit”, and  “Careful (Click, Click)”. Woodbine went to portray prolific saxophonist David “Fathead” Newman in the Taylor Hackford-directed and Jamie Foxx-starring Oscar-winning biopic Ray (2004), about legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles.

Over the next few years, Woodbine made minor appearances in both film and Television.

On the small screen, he could be seen in an episode of Fox’s ongoing crime-drama Bones and ABC’s short-lived cop drama The Evidence, as well as two episodes of Spike TV’s Blade: The Series, based on Marvel Comics’ character and popular film series. The next year, Woodbine appeared with his Blade: The Series co-star, Sticky Fingaz in his musical drama film A Day in the Life, starring Omar Epps and Mekhi Phifer, and two films by Jesse V. Johnson: the low-budget sci-fi/action movie The Last Sentinel (alongside Don “The Dragon” Wilson and Katee Sackhoff), and the action film The Butcher, opposite Eric Roberts. He also landed a series regular, as Leon Cooley, an Inmate on death row, in the TNT crime/drama series Saving Grace, starring Academy Award-winning actress Holly Hunter in her first TV series.

From 2009 onward, Bokeem Woodbine appeared in the Blaxploitation film Black Dynamite and followed it up the next year with the M. Night Shyamalan-produced supernatural thriller Devil.

Bokeem Woodbine has also appeared as an officer on the critically acclaimed series Southland (2011). He next appeared in the 2012 remake of Total Recall and then Riddick the next year.

In December 2015, Woodbine received a Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries for his role as Mike Milligan in Fargo.

In June 2016, Woodbine has cast in the Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios film Spider-Man: Homecoming as Shocker, one of four villains, alongside Michael Keaton, Logan Marshall-Green, and Michael Chernus.

Bokeem Woodbine: Salary, Net Worth

Bokeem Woodbine has a net worth of $3 million but his salary is not revealed yet.

Is Bokeem Woodbine involved in any rumors and controversies?

Similarly, The rumor is that Bokeem is also searching for the best affair in his time as some of his close friends claimed that he is in search of a partner whom he can state as his spouse and get married to the lady but the person needs to be very understanding and calm in her nature as dictated by Bokeem and he is not gay at all.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight

Moving towards his body measurements, he has a height of 6 feet and weighs 75 kg. His hair color is black and his eyes are also black. There is no information about his Shoe size, dress size, and body.

Social Media

Bokeem Woodbine is not active on any sorts of social media like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

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