Lakeith

Lakeith Lee Stanfield (born August 12, 1991), sometimes credited as Keith Stanfield, is an American actor, poet and rapper. He is a member of a band named Moors.

His first acting role was in the short film Short Term 12 (2009), filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton's thesis project at San Diego State University, which won the Jury Award for U.S. Short Filmmaking at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. A year later, Stanfield appeared in the short film Gimme Grace (2010), before he gave up acting for several years. He went on to work a number of different jobs – roofing, gardening, at AT&T, and at a legal marijuana dispensary – before he was contacted by Cretton to reappear in a feature-length adaptation of Short Term 12. It was his first feature film. During the film's production, Stanfield practiced method acting, distancing himself from the other cast members like his character, Marcus. He was the only actor to appear in both the short and feature versions.

Short Term 12 won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the 2013 South by Southwest film festival, and Stanfield was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male.

In 2014, Stanfield co-starred in The Purge: Anarchy and Selma, in the latter playing civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. He appeared in James Franco's film Memoria and in Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead. He also starred in the fantasy horror thriller film King Ripple [left] by Michigan filmmaker Luke Jaden, and appeared in the music video for the Run the Jewels song "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)". In 2015, he portrayed rapper Snoop Dogg in the biopic Straight Outta Compton.

In 2017, he was in the Netflix-distributed production of Adam Wingard's adaptation of the popular Japanese fantasy-thriller manga series Death Note. Also in 2017, he starred in the music video for the song "Cold Little Heart" by English singer Michael Kiwanuka, and appeared in the critically acclaimed horror film Get Out. The same year, he was cast in the science-fiction comedy film Sorry to Bother You [right], which was released July 6, 2018 to critical acclaim.

In 2019, Stanfield featured as romantic lead Nate Davis in the romantic comedy film Someone Great, which was released on Netflix.

Since 2016, he has starred as Darius Epps in the FX comedy-drama series Atlanta.

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