Morris Chestnut

Also Credited As:

Morris L. Chestnut
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Biography

Having given up his dream of playing professional football, Morris Chestnut received immediate recognition in his first feature role as Ricky Baker, the promising young athlete cut tragically down in John Singleton's powerful coming of age film, "Boyz N the Hood" (1991). His impressive debut led to supporting work in "In the Line of Duty: Street War" (NBC, 1992) and the title role of the Disney Channel's "The Ernest Green Story" (1993), as …
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Job Title

Actor, Producer

Born

Morris L. Chestnut on January 1, 1969 in Cerritos, California, USA

LATEST CREDITS

Not Easily Broken

Dave Johnson

The Perfect Holiday

Benjamin Chestnut

The Ernest Green Story

Ernest Green

Miss Collegiate African American Pageant

Host

The Brothers

Jackson Smith

V

Ryan Nichols

Out All Night

Jeff Carswell

Two Can Play That Game

Keith Fenton

The Killing Yard

Shango

Like Mike

Tracey Reynolds

The Cave

Top Buchanan

Half Past Dead

Donny/49er One

Ladder 49

Tommy Drake

The Game Plan

Travis Sanders

The Best Man

Lance

C-16

Mal Robinson

Breakin' All the Rules

Evan Fields

The Call

Officer Paul Phillips

The Best Man Holiday

Lance

Scenes of the Crime

Ray

Boyz N The Hood

Ricky Baker

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

Bobby Zachs

In the Line of Duty: Street War

Carl "Prince" Franklin

The Inkwell

Harold Lee

The 26th Annual NAACP Image Awards

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