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1964 - Born in Kansas City, Missouri on the 29th of November.
1985 - He made his film debut with a small role as a hamburger server in Moving Violations.
1988 - He got his film break through playing the role of 'Rocket' in the movie Colors.
1989 - He appeared in a video for Angela Winbush's #2 hit single "It's The Real Thing".
1992 - He landed a regular role as a fussy hotel manager on The Golden Palace.
1994 - He had his true screen breakthrough portraying Denzel Washington's best friend in Devil in a Blue Dress.
1997 - He co-starred in three major films, Volcano, Boogie Nights, and John Singleton's Rosewood.
1998 - He did stellar work in Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight and Warren Beatty's Bulworth, playing a down and dirty ex-con in the former and a drug lord in the latter.
1999 - His powerful portrayal of a school teacher sent in to counsel a young man on death row, in A Lesson Before Dying.
2001 - He has appeared in films including Rosewood, The Family Man, Boogie Nights, Out of Sight, Traffic, and Ocean's Eleven.
2005 - He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Paul Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda, a story about a Hutu hotel manager in Rwanda who sheltered hundreds of Tutsis and other refugees from murderous militias during the Rwandan genocide in mid-1994.
- He also starred in, and was one of the producers of Crash, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- He also appeared in NFL commercials promoting the Super Bowl.
2006 - He regularly appeared for the NFL in its Super Bowl advertising that the NFL sought his permission to reference his previous commercials to portray themselves as having no new ideas
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