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Apr 6, 2017 · The show is written and performed by long-time Lee collaborator, stage and film actor Roger Guenveur Smith. READ MORE: ‘Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992’ Trailer: John Ridley’s New ...
Jul 1, 1997 · Roger Guenveur Smith. July 1, 1997. Roger Guenveur Smith’s stuttering youth standing in the street with a photo of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King in his hand is without a doubt the most poignant moment of Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing. I was also duly impressed by how Roger knocked the clownish performers of Culture Clash into new realms ...
Jun 28, 2015 · Roger Guenveur Smith, an accomplished stage actor, conceived and played Smiley. He remembers Lee being no-nonsense—and in a hurry to make history. When Lee showed the actor the script, ...
Roger Guenveur Smith. Born: 27-Jul-1959 Birthplace: Berkeley, CA. Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor. Nationality: United S. Father: Sherman Smith Mother: Helen Guenveur Wife: Carolina (one child) University: Occidental College University: Yale School of Drama Conservatory: Keskidee Arts Centre ...
Roger Guenveur Smith is a man who knows his history. But the writer-performer doesn’t just know it, he lets it under his skin, manipulates it, re-imagines it, and embodies it in shows that are as much about the here-and-now as they are about where we came from.
Mar 10, 2022 · Actor, director, and writer Roger Guenvuer Smith has appeared in many of his friend Spike Lee’s movies, including Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X.Lee, in turn, has worked with Smith on some of his solo theater shows like the Obie Award- winning A Huey P. Newton Story, about the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, and Rodney King, which takes on police brutality in 1991 Los Angeles.
Roger Guenveur Smith is a man who knows his history. But the writer-performer doesn’t just know it, he lets it under his skin, manipulates it, re-imagines it, and embodies it in shows that are as much about the here-and-now as they are about where we came from.
