The blue eyed American Actor Michael Brown alias Michael Ealy is best known for being a bandit in the 2002 movie, Barbershop. Ealy has starred in many movies including, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, 2 fast 2 Furious, Seven Pounds, Their Eyes Were Watching God, For Colored Girls, Think Like a Man etc. Michael has appeared in many TV series but he is eminent for his role as Dorian in the sci-fi police drama series Almost Human. Ealy has till date won a Black Reel Award and an African-American Film Critics Association Award for his exceptional acting. Michael has played sophisticated characters with much ease in his acting career.
Michael Brown was born on August 3 1973 in Washington, D.C. and was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. Thus Michael is of amrican Nationality although having an African American ethnicity. Ealy Attended Springbrook High School and later joined University of Maryland in College Park , Maryland. Ealy’s mother was a IBM worker and his father was in grocery business. Ealy began his acting career by appearing in numerous off-Broadway stage productions in the late 1990’s. Subsequently, Ealy started working in films ; his first being Bad Company . Then he appeared in his second movie Kissing Jessica Stein. But Ealy’s third movie Barbershop proved to be his breakthrough in cinema. Ealy appeared as a street thug named Ricky Nash and then reprised his role in Barbershop 2: Back in Business. Then in 2003, Ealy starred as Slap Jack in 2 Fast 2 Furious. In 2004, Ealy appeared in a number of films including November, Barbershop 2 and Never Die Alone. In 2005, Ealy appeared in the music video of Mariah Carey’s “Get Your Number”.
The year seemed very dynamic for Ealy as he bagged a role in the Television film version of Their Eyes Were Watching God produced by Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones. For his acting, Ealy received a Black Reel Award for Best Actor. Ealy also appeared in the independent film, Jellysmoke. Ealy also got a role in television series Sleeper Cell from 2005 to 2006. In 2007, Ealy was nominated a Golden Globe Award: Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his acting in Sleeper Cell. In 2008, Michael appeared in movies like “Miracle at St. Anna” and also “Seven Pounds”. Ealy then starred as himself in the film and the TV adaptation “The People Speak”. In the same year Ealy was given a role as Marshall Vogel in television series Flash Forward.
2009 started with Ealy playing the love interest of Beyonce Knowles in Beyonce’s music video “Halo”. In 2010, Ealy starred in Takers and hit movie “For Colored Girls”. In 2010 Ealy bagged an African-American Film Critics Association Award: Best Supporting Actor for his role in For Colored Girls. In the same year he starred as Derrick Bond in the television series “The Good Wife”. In 2011 Ealy bagged a nomination for NAACP Image Awards: Image Award Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his outstanding role in “For Colored Girls”. Ealy come into view as character Ben in the TV series, Californication in the same year. In 2012, Michael played the role of character Detective Sebastian in the movie, Underworld: Awakening and the character Dominic in “Think Like a Man”.
In the same year Ealy was nominated a Teen Choice Award: Choice Movie Actor Romance for his acting in Think Like a Man. Ealy also appeared as character Travis Marks in the TV series Common Law. In 2012 Ealy also acted as a love interest of female in John Legend’s “Tonight”. Then in 2013 Michael signed with Fox TV series named Almost Human to play an older DRN android model “Dorian”. Almost Human is a sci-fi series about a human (Karl Urban as detective John Kennex) and an android partner-cop (Ealy as Dorian) team. The team of two eventually solves futuristic crimes. In 2014 Ealy was seen in movies like About Last Night and Think Like a Man Too.
Michael Ealy married long-time beautiful girlfriend, Khatira Rafiqzada in October 2012 in a gorgeous matrimonial ceremony in Los Angeles. The wonderful couple has been together since 2008. In February 2014, Ealy announced that he was going to be a parent of a baby boy with his wife. Ealy will be seen as character Carter Duncan in 2015 movie, The Perfect Guy.
Facts of Michael EalyName Michael Ealy Birth Date August 3, 1973 Nationality American Birth Country USA Birth Place/City Washington, D.C Ethnicity Black Ethnicity Profession Actor Married Yes Married to Khatira Rafiqzada Education University of Maryland, College Park, Springbrook High School Online Presence Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MichaelEaly Twitter https://twitter.com/MichaelEaly Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ealy Movies The Perfect Guy TV Show Almost Human |
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Michael Ealy Bio
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