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Michael Ealy

Michael Early is a stage name for Michael Brown and he is an American actor. He had played in many movies like About Last Night, Seven Pounds, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Barbershop and barbershop 2. He played for the character Dorian for the Fox Science Fiction of Android. He was born in DC, Washington but raised in Maryland, Silver Spring.  He graduated in Springbrook High School and went to University of Maryland at Maryland.  His father was working for IBM while the mother was in the grocery business.

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He started to play in 1990s and he played in many off-Broadway stage productions. He played first in Kissing Jessica Stein and in Bad Company. His breakthrough came with Barbershop.  He played as reformed street thug in the character of Ricky Nash.  This is the role that he did again during the 2004 sequel Barbershop 2: Back in business.

He played in the production of Oprah Winfrey called Their Eyes Were Watching God.  The co-producer was Quincy Jones and the stars included Halle Berry. In the same year, he also played in the JellySmoke, an independent movies and it was under Mark  Banning directorship.  He starred in Sleeper Cell, a show time television series.

Even if many people knew him, people were not aware that he was married. When people learnt about his marriage, they wanted to get more information about the woman that he said that he dated for 4 years before he married her.  However, he said that he likes to keep his life under wraps. After sometime, he said that he is married and that he is a father and why he would like that his life be his private matter.  He is a husband to Kathira Rafiqzada and his son is Elijah Rakim.

He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for the role he played in the Sleeper Cell: American terror. He acted in Seven Pounds together with Will Smith in the character of Ben Thomas. He was the male lead in the Beyonce music Halo. He was in the Flash Forward of ABC television series. He is now working on independent writing project.

He played in the Good Wife as attorney Derrick Bond. He was Jake Attica in Takers and Travis Marks in the Common Law, this is a movie of two cops who liked to argue too much and they had to go to counseling. He appeared in Think Like a Man and he played as Dominic, he played in the sequel of the movie, Think  Like A Man Too in the character of Papa Joe.  

Michael Early has 3million dollars as Net worth.  He earned his money because of appearing in many movies such as Kissing Jessica Stein, 2 Fast and 2 Furious. He was in the movie of the Song, Get Your number and Never Die Alone. Some of the latest movies that he played were Unconditional, Silver Spring and Seven Pounds. Some of the awards he has is African-American Film Critics Association Award because of being Best Supporting Actor in the Colored Girls


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 3 Aug, 1973
Age: 46 yrs
Occupations: Actor
Television actor
Film actor
Citizenship: United States of America
Birth Place: Silver Spring
Education: University of Maryland
Springbrook High School
Gender: Male
Description: American actor
Twitter Id: MichaelEaly
Net Worth 2021: 3 million
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Last Modified: Jun 26 2020
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