DEADLEE - Rapper turned Actor

NO LIMITS 'HIGHWAYS PERFORMANCE SPACE'

MING WANTS YOU!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FLASH GORDON has been extended for 2 more weeks!  Hope to see you! I am playing MING THE MERCILESS in this stage production!  Get your tickets here! > FLASH GORDON

METH HEAD

Check out the trailer for METH HEAD - I play Mannie with a great cast including LUKAS HAAS!  Add the Meth Head FaceBook page here > METH HEAD 

 

Deadlee is Ming the Merciless

IT'S A MING THING

Yes !! DEADLEE is playing MING THE MERCILESS in a brand new stage production of FLASH GORDON! Directed by STEVEN HELGOTH & FRAYNE ROSANOFF with a spectacular cast! Homiez you must come out to see this! It's a family friendly production and a night to go back in time !! Remember the great SERIALS from days past? FLASH GORDON was one of the best and this stage production is a live action radio broadcast performance! SO FUN! You gotta COME!! It begins this FRIDAY/Saturday and runs for 4 weeks - total of 8 shows! GET YOUR TICKETS at www.brownpapertickets.com here > BUY TIX HERE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make up test

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOM DEADLEE SAYS NOH8

Happy & proud that my mom participated in the NOH8 campaign! NOH8 

NOT MY SouthLAnd

  I have a love/hate relationship with SOUTHLAND the TNT TV show. On one hand I appreciate great acting from Regina King, Ben McKenzie, etc; on the other hand I despise the characterization of most of the young men of color. On the 2012 season opener I had hopes that multiethnic actor LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS in a role of cop would be a positive person of color. My hopes were quickly dashed when his character turns out to be a sick cop who refers to Latino gangsters as "animals" & laughs as they sit in a pool of blood dying. I have no problem with depicting gang members as part of a storyline, but gangsters in SOUTHLAND are nothing more than bloody background actors. The gangsters never get a back story or in depth look into why they are doing what they do. Ok I get that the show is from the LAPD perspective, but when Hollywood is short on shows with people of color in leads, it is all the more disheartening to be represented as only gangsters, rapists, druggies etc, relegated to "animals".  They even showed a Latino youth poking a dead gangster with a stick as if he were a dead animal. Do these writers actually think our youth are so gone that they would be numb at the sight of a dead body in the alley? Even the new Asian cop played by LUCY LIU was stereotyped as the "me so horny" happy ending Asian sex object. I also got a chuckle that a young black man was pulled over for reckless driving when most are pulled over for DWB (Driving While Black). The writers could have at least got that right!

Which leads me to the only way we will change the way Hollywood portrays people of color is by encouraging writing! All these plot lines begin with the pen and ideas of the script/screenwriters. I have decided that I will no longer play a gangster unless there is a storyline or actual story around the character. I understand that in Hollywood the only way to get paid is to play what they are giving us, my acting teacher prepared me for that reality. Well I am ready to flip the script, and show our people's true reality. Sure we have the gangsters, and thieves but that is just a very very small percentage. Most of our people are hard working, patriotic, caring humans whose stories deserve to be told! I have a challenge to my fellow writers of color, let's pick up our pens or get to typing and tell our own stories!  

THE IMMIGRANT

Check out this fun trailer for The LEVY BROTHERS Film THE IMMIGRANT I was honored to be a part of this film starring SCOTT THOMPSON !! Cameos by MARGARET CHO, Michael CERA, WILL FORTE & More!  Out in 2012! 

 

RAMPART TRAILER

I have a cool cameo with WODDY HARRELSON in RAMPART. Check out the trailer & see a glimpse of me around 30 second mark!  

DEADLEE in RAMPART

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was lucky to land a role in Oren Moverman's RAMPART starring WOODY HARRELSON. It recently had showings at LONDON and TORONTO film festivals> I finally saw it at the AFI Fest in LA! It opens L.A. and NY this NOVEMBER 23! My role wasn't the biggest, but was the most important to date in my acting career. It was my first SAG Movie Role & I acted next to Academy Award Nominee WOODY! The movie to my delight is not your normal TRAINING DAY/ GOOD COP BAD COP Hollywood movie. Director Oren Moverman has gone deep into the psyche of a dirty cop. I felt like I was in his brain. I recommend you go see it and get a glimpse of me YO!!