lakeith stanfield

African-American Lakeith Stanfield, credited as Keith Stanfield at the beginning of his career, was born in 1991 in San Bernardino, California, into a broken family. As a teenager he was interested in acting, so he joined the drama club of his high school and applied to participate in commercials. Fortune was on his side when Destin Cretton , a film student at the University of San Diego, asked him in 2009 to star in his graduation short Short Term 12 , playing a troubled teen in a foster care facility. It was so well received that three years later Cretton turned it into a feature, known in Spain as Las vidas de Grace., and Stanfield was the only one of the actors from the original film to reprise, in the same role; he was accompanied by an actress who would also take an undeniable upline, Brie Larson , as a worker at the drop-in center.

The actor did not miss this opportunity, he clung to it tightly, and since then the job offers came one after the other, secondary roles, but which allowed him to expand his acting range and get to know the Hollywood scene, after starting in the “indie” field. ”. So she was at the start of a dystopian saga, Anarchy. The night of the beasts , in Selma , about Marthin Luther King and his mythical march for civil rights, in a biopic about Miles Davis, Miles Ahead , and in one about young people from a troubled neighborhood, Dope. In the last two, music was important, something that the actor loves, since he is part of the band Moors, and in 2021 he announced the release of an album whose title would be said to define his career, “Self Control”, that is. , “Self-control”.

In 2016 he worked under the orders of Oliver Stone in Snowden , the film about the spy who angered Obama, and in 2017 he was part of a real bell of horror films with racial elements, the highly celebrated Let Me Out , directed by Jordan Peele and starring by Daniel Kaluya . He was undoubtedly secondary, but things in life Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield have coincided again on the screen in 2020 thanks to Judas and the Black Messiah , here both with important characters, co-stars, although ironies of life, have been nominated both to the Oscar for best supporting actor, that’s Hollywood.

Stanfield has been in the lackluster Millennium: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger , the mecca of cinema was definitely choked by the black genre saga started by Stieg Larsson . Again in high school, as in two titles that he can be proud of, the Agatha Christie film Puñales en el back , and the criminal story of precious stones Rough Diamonds . At barely 30 years old, it can only be said that the actor has a promising career before him, he can take over from African-American interpreters who are already celebrating their birthdays and combing gray hair.