Cast Details

Newsletter SMS Alerts Version française Facebook Twitter SMS Mobile
Theatres FIND A MOVIE MOVIES AT HOME

Site Navigation

  1. Theatres
  2. Movies
  3. Events
  4. Buy Tickets
  5. Video
  6. Blog
  7. Contests
  8. Corporate Sales
  9. SCENE
  10. Buy/Rent Movies
  11. Gift Cards
 
Find Cast Members | Find Movies
Please enter a name.
# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Cast Archive: Bokeem Woodbine
Bokeem Woodbine
Birthday: April 13, 1973
Birth Place: Harlem, New York, USA
Resides: United States
Professions: actor, singer, musician
A tall, handsome rising young star often cast as street-tough black youths, Bokeem Woodbine offered a number of startling performances in a succession of feature films and TV longforms since the early 1990s. Encouraged by his mother to apply for work as an extra in Ernest Dickerson's 1991 directorial debut, "Juice". he was hired as a stand-in and caught the notice of casting director Jaki Brown-Karman who later suggested Woodbine to Forest Whitaker for the latter's directorial effort, "Strapped" (HBO, 1994). In that film, Woodbine portrayed an inner city youth selling drugs on the street and information to the cops to help his girlfriend get out of jail. Hollywood and other filmmakers soon took notice and the actor landed a small part in Spike Lee's Crooklyn (1994) before Doug McHenry cast him the key role of the bad-seed brother in "Jason's Lyric," (also 1994). The following year, Woodbine appeared as an Oakland youth who becomes a cohort of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in "Panther" and lent his magnetic screen presence to the role of a preacher who becomes enmeshed in a heist in the Hughes Brothers' "Dead Presidents". He went on to headline the critically-derided "Caught Up", supported the late Chris Farley in his final film "Almost Heroes" and was involved in a kidnapping that goes awry in "The Big Hit" (all 1998).

My Favourites

My Favourite Theatres

My Favourite Movies

Latest From the Blog

Breaking Dawn, Pt. 2: 3 new character posters
Efron leaves his comfort zone in The Paperboy
Brad Pitt, the effortless mega movie star
Young Hollywood stars strike out on own at Cannes
More...

What's Hot


The Great Gatsby

Anchorman 2



The Hobbit

Browse By Category

About us

Cineplex Inc. ("Cineplex") is the largest motion picture exhibitor in Canada and owns, leases or has a joint-venture interest in 130 theatres with 1,359 screens serving approximately 70 million guests annually. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Cineplex operates theatres from British Columbia to Quebec and is the exclusive provider of UltraAVX™ and the largest exhibitor of digital, 3D and IMAX projection technologies in the country. Proudly Canadian and with a workforce of approximately 10,000 employees, the company operates the following top tier brands: Cineplex Odeon, Galaxy, Famous Players, Colossus, Coliseum, SilverCity, Cinema City and Scotiabank Theatres. Cineplex shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the symbol "CGX".