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Rodney King is available now to watch on Netflix. Born on 27th July, 1955 in Berkeley, California USA, he is famous for School Daze. Roger Guenveur Smith is a 66 year old American Actor. Roger Guenveur Smith was previously married to Carolina Smith (wife). Now, Smith asks us once again, 'Can we all get along?' D: Spike Lee, US, 2016, 52m According to our records, Roger Guenveur Smith is possibly single. It's been 30 years since the world witnessed King's brutal treatment at the hands of four police officers and their subsequent acquittal which sparked the LA riots.

#ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH TV#

In a riveting one-man performance, Smith unravels the myth of 'the first reality TV star.' Rodney King tells the story of a flawed, good-hearted everyman-from his harsh entry into the national spotlight to a lonely death at the bottom of his swimming pool. History, poetry and tragedy collide when stage and screen actor Roger Guenveur Smith tackles the thorny odyssey of Rodney King. Roger studied at Yale University and Occidental College and has taught at both institutions, as well as CalArts, directing his Performing History Workshop. His many screen credits also include work inspired by Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Nat Turner and Madame CJ Walker. He has staged travelogues of Iceland, Panama, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Miami and New Orleans. His latest solo is inspired by Otto Frank, father of diarist Anne Frank. His history-infused work for the international stage also includes studies of Christopher Columbus, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley, iconoclast artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, Simon Rodia, and Charles White, and baseball greats Juan Marichal and John Roseboro. Newton Story and Frederick Douglass Now at Dartmouth, and returns with a streaming version and discussion of his Bessie Award-winning Rodney King, directed by longtime colleague Spike Lee. Roger studied at Yale University and Occidental College and has taught at both institutions, as well as Cal Arts, where he currently directs his Performing History Workshop.Roger Guenveur Smith is an actor, writer and director who has created a prolific body of work on stage and screen.

#ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH SERIES#

He was nominated for the Screen Actors’ Guild Award for his work in American Gangster and starred in the HBO series K Street and Oz. Roger’s many screen credits include Do The Right Thing, for which he created the stuttering hero Smiley, as well as an eclectic range of characters in Malcolm X, Get On The Bus, He Got Game, Eve’s Bayou, All About The Benjamins, Hamlet, Deep Cover, and the recently acclaimed indie films Mooz-Lum and Better Mus’ Come as the Prime Minister of Jamaica. The Obie Award-winning duo of writer, director and actor Roger Guenveur Smith and composer Marc Anthony Thompson are joined by former Urban Bush Woman Treva.

Smith and his frequent collaborator, composer Marc Anthony Thompson, have been commissioned by San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre to present Five Hundred Lives per Mile, inspired by the construction of the Panama Canal and its human costs. Smith directed the Bessie Award-winning Radio Mambo: Culture Clash Invades Miami, the West Coast Premiere of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, and most recently, Steven Berkoff’s Agamemnon. His history-infused work also includes Frederick Douglass Now, Christopher Columbus 1992, The Watts Towers Project, Two Fires, Juan and John, Iceland, In Honor Of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Patriot Act, Who Killed Bob Marley?, and the ‘not-too-dark comedy’ Inside The Creole Mafia with Mark Broyard, cited by the Los Angeles Weekly as Production of the Year for both its premiere and revival runs.

Newton Story into a Peabody Award-winning telefilm. Newton were brought to the big screen by Spike Lee, is bringing his solo show Frederick Douglass Now' to the stage at the. Roger Guenveur Smith adapted his Obie Award-winning solo performance of A Huey P. Roger Guenveur Smith, whose one-man shows about Rodney King and Huey P.

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