LaKeith Stanfield

Lakeith Lee "Keith" Stanfield (born 12 de Agosto de 1991) is an American actor and rapero. He made his feature film debut en Short Term 12 (2013), for which he lo nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. En 2014, pp co-starred in the horror película The Purge: Anarchy and the Martin Luther King biopic Selma, as civil right activista Jimmie Lee Jackson. Stanfield, apareció en la película de la Droga (2015). He played rapero Snoop Dogg en the biopic about the hip-hop del grupo N. W. A, Straight Outta Compton (2015), and will appear in the upcoming Oliver Stone biopic Snowden (2015). Stanfield was born en San Bernardino, California y grew up en Riverside and Victorville, California. He has said that he "grew up very poor in a fractured family that was disfuncionales on both sides". He decided to become an actor when he was 14 years old, when he joined his high school's club de drama. He attended the John Casablancas Modeling and Career Center en Los Ángeles, where he was signed by an agency manager and began to audition for commercials. Stanfield's first lo role in the short film Short Term 12 (2009), which was filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton's tesis project at San Diego State University and won the Jury Award for U. S. Short Cine at the 2009 Festival de Cine de Sundance. A year later, he apareció en the short film Dame de Grace (2010), before he gave up acting for several years. He went on to work a number of different trabajos de tejados de trabajo, jardinería, at&T, and at a legal de marihuana factory—before he was idcontacto by Cretton to reappear a la característica-longitud adaptation of Short Term 12, su primer largometraje. For the duration of the film's 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 films. Short Term 12 won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrativa Característica at the 2013 South by Southwest film festival, y Stanfield, lo que nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Veces. La película contó con "Vicious", a rap de la canción co-written with Milgaten, and so You Know What It's Like", a rap de la canción co-written with Cretton, which a number of Oscar pundits concentración would be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, although it did not ajustado finalmente receive a nominacin. En 2014, Stanfield co-starred in The Purge: Anarchy and Selma, the latter playing civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. He is set to appear, James Franco's próxima película de la Memoria y en Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead. Stanfield quiere decir estrella en the fantasía, horror, novela de suspense de la película King Ripple, by the Michigan filmmaker Luke Jaden, and the music video for the Run the Jewels canción "Close Your Eyes And Count to Fuck)". En 2015, pp portrayed rapero Snoop Dogg en el biopic the Straight Outta Compton.