Larenz Tate (born September 8, 1975 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American movie and television celebrity. He’s famous for his role as O-Dog in the 1993 drama film, “Menace II Society”. His other movies include “Dead Presidents”, “Love Jones,” A Man Apart”,” Waist Deep”,” Biker Boyz “and” Ray”.”
He was likewise a cast member on the CBS show The Royal Family, starring Redd Foxx and Della Reese, which ended prematurely after Redd Foxx expired. In the video game 187 Ride or Die, Tate expresses the primary character, Buck. Following numerous small-screen characters, offers started pouring in for Tate, and in late 1992, collaborative film making sibs Albert and Allen Hughes approached him to star inside their introduction feature Menace II Society. A jarring vision of inner city despair and decay, the movie located Tate channeling his considerable energy into creating “O Dog”, a trigger happy teen. Larenz Tate also played the character of Kenny in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in the episode “That’s No Lady, That’s My Cousin”. Larenz was likewise featured in R&B singer Ashanti’s 2003 published music video Rain on Me, where he played the covetous, violent partner of Ashanti. The video touched on the topic of domestic abuse. He also starred within the primary cast in season’s 4-7 of FX Network’s Rescue Me as Bart “Black Shawn” Johnston.
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble
Nominations
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture/Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Performance (2005)
“The Postman” (1997), “Love Come Down” (2000), “A Man Apart” (2003), “Love Monkey” (2006), “Blue Blood” (2006)
Star Sign
Virgo
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What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script. I mean, that's probably why Denzel Washington turns down so much. It's like why go through all of the ups and downs of trying to have a phenomenal performance when the movie is just bad all around?
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It's interesting, because I've never seen myself as a sex symbol. It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.
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Turned down the role of Harper in The Best Man (1999).
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Turned down the role of Dre in Brown Sugar (2002).
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Currently filming Blue Blood (2008). [January 2008]
Before portraying him in Ray (2004), he spent time with Quincy Jones.
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He was born in Chicago, Illinois, but grew up in Bell Gardens, California.
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He began acting in plays at the Inner City Cultural Center in Los Angeles at the age of 10. His classmate was Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
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His favorite book is "The Measure of a Man," an autobiography by Sidney Poitier.
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He appeared on the cover of the October 1998 issue of Black Elegance.
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He is the co-founder of The Tate Bros. Foundation with his brothers. The non-profit organization was created to help provide funds for children living with the disease sickle cell anemia.
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Lives in Calabasas, California.
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Son, Miles Xavier, was born in the week of 1-7 August, he weighed 7lbs, 2 oz, and he was 19 inches long
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Larenz and his brothers Larron Tate, a writer-producer, and Lahmard J. Tate, an actor, have formed a production company of their own, "Tate Men Entertainment".
$4.5 Million
