Bokeem Woodbine Movies and Career Information

Bokeem Woodbine (born April 13, 1973) is an American film and television actor. Woodbine was born in Harlem, New York to an actress mother. He attended the prestigious Dalton School in New York before transferring to the LaGuardia School of Music and Art in the city. He was an Instrumental Music Major, and the lead singer for the band, Mazard! Bokeem, nicknamed Bo, is also a talented rock musician who both composes songs and plays the guitar for his band, 13 Purple Dragons. A formidable martial artist, he keeps his physique up practicing Shaolin Kung Fu under Shifu Shi Yan Ming, who is a 34th generation Shaolin Temple Warrior Monk. Recently married, he and his wife are expecting their first child in early 2011. In his leisure time, he is an avid reader, and he has spoken for/supports Dr. Marshall's Street Soldiers center located in San Francisco that prepare and pay for urban youth to attend college. With the encouragement of his actress mother, Woodbine entered show biz at age 19 as a stand-in and extra in Ernest R. 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