Clifton Powell

Clifton Powell
Powell in May 2007
Born	(1956-03-16) March 16, 1956 Washington, D.C.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1981–present
Spouse	Kimberly Powell
Children	2

Clifton Powell (born March 16, 1956) is an American actor, who primarily plays supporting roles in films, such as in Ray (2004), for which he received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture nomination.

Career

Powell has appeared in more than one hundred films, beginning in the 1980s. His credits include Menace II Society (1993), Dead Presidents (1995), Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998), Rush Hour (1998), Next Friday (2000), and its 2002 sequel, Friday After Next, Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004), and Ray (2004). He played Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1999 television film Selma, Lord, Selma. Powell also has had many supporting roles in smaller direct-to-video films in 2000s and 2010s.

On television, Powell had the recurring roles on Roc, South Central, and Army Wives, and well as guest-starred on In the Heat of the Night, Murder, She Wrote, NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and House MD. In 2016, Powell was cast as main antagonist in the Bounce TV first prime time soap opera, Saints & Sinners opposite Vanessa Bell Calloway and Gloria Reuben.

Powell is also known for his voice acting role as the antagonist Big Smoke from the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. In 2017, he appeared in the second season of My Step Kidz.

Personal life

Powell was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Mayfair Mansions in Northeast D.C. Powell is a graduate of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Powell was married to Kimberly, with whom he has two children.

Selected filmography

Film

• Alphabet City (1984) as Ramon
• House Party (1990) as Sharane's Brother
• Deep Cover (1992) as Leland
• 3 Ninjas (1992) as FBI Agent Kurl
• Conflict of Interest (1993) as Det. Oakes
• Menace II Society (1993) as Chauncy
• Dead Presidents (1995) as Cutty
• Phantoms (1998) as Gen. Leland Copperfield
• Deep Rising (1998) as Mason
• Caught Up (1998) as Herbert, Frank Lowden
• Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998) as Lawrence Roberts
• Rush Hour (1998) as Luke
• The Pentagon Wars (1998) as Sgt. Benjamin Dalton
• Selma, Lord, Selma (1999) as Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Safe House (1999)
• The Breaks (1999) as Cosmo
• Foolish (1999) as Everette Washington
• No Tomorrow (1999) as Styles
• Next Friday (2000) as Pinky
• Hot Boyz (2000) as Saint
• Lockdown (2000) as Malachi Young
• The Brothers (2001) as Fred Smith
• Bones (2001) as Jeremiah Peet
• Civil Brand (2002) as Warden Alan Deese
• Ticker (2002) as FBI Agent
• Friday After Next (2002) as Pinky
• Banged Out (2002)
• Play'd: A Hip Hop Story (2002)
• Crime Partners (2003) as Kenyatta
• Love Chronicles (2003) as Thomas
• Never Die Alone (2004) as Moon
• Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004) as Reggie
• Ray (2004) as Jeff Brown
• Sugar Valentine (2004) as Joshua Valentine
• Da Block Party (2004) as Action Jackson
• The Gospel (2005) as Bishop Fred Taylor
• Who Made the Potato Salad? (2006) as Mr. Jenkins
• Norbit (2007) as Earl Latimore
• First Sunday (2008) as Officer Eddie King
• Street Kings (2008) as Sergeant Green
• Love for Sale (2008) as Cinque
• Before I Self Destruct (2009) as Sean
• Five.K.One (2009)
• Preacher's Kid (2009) as Ike
• Just Another Day (2009) as Bowman
• Something Like a Business (2010) as Sexy Silk
• Street Kings 2: Motor City (2011) as Det. Tyrone Fowler
• 35 and Ticking (2011) as Zane
• Blood Ransom (2014) as Detective Hobbs
• Hunting Season (2016) as Thomas Curry
• All Eyez on Me (2017) as Floyd
• Misguided Behavior (2017) as Captain Rogers
• Dogstar: High School 2 (2018) as Dogstar High School 2 (voice)

Television

• Roc (1992–1994) as Andre Thompson
• In the Heat of the Night (1993) as Henry Cowen
• Murder She Wrote (1993–1995) as Ralph Danton / Det. Eddie Flowers
• South Central (1994) as Bobby Deavers
• The Jamie Foxx Show (1997) as Mazi
• In the House (1998) as Eddie
• The Parkers (2000) as Mr. Alexander
• The Practice (2002) as Earl Johnson
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2003)
• House (2005) Episode: "Daddy's Boy" as Ken Hall
• Eve (2006) as Yusef
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2006) as Terrance Crowley
• Numb3rs (2007) as Max Devane
• Cold Case (2008) as Tom Bernard '08
• Army Wives (2009–2010) as Terrence Price
• The Boondocks (2010) Episode: "A Date with the Booty Warrior" as 1st Prisoner (voice)
• The Mentalist (2011) as C.O. Earls
• Black Dynamite (2011–2012) as Crenshaw the Slime, Daddy Dynamite (voices)
• Awake (2012) Episode: "Guilty" as John Cooper
• Unsupervised (2012) as Coach Durham (voice)
• The Soul Man (2015) Episode: "Tell It Like It Isn't" as Gooch
• Saints & Sinners (2016–present) as Rex Fisher
• Tales (2017) as Bob Davis
• Black Lightning (2018–present) as Jeremiah Holt
• Hawaii Five-O (2018–present) as Percy Grover Jr
• The Family Business (2018) as Uncle Lou

Video games

• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) as Big Smoke (voice)

External links

Media related to Clifton Powell at Wikimedia Commons

• Clifton Powell at IMDb