Donald Faison Biography

Donald Faison was and raised in New York City by actor parents Shirley and Donald. From a very early age Faison watched from the sidelines as his parents worked nightly with the groundbreaking National Black Theater in Harlem. By the age of five he showed a talent for memorizing everyone's lines and decided that if he could do that so easily he wanted to get in on pretending to be someone else to complete the picture. His first training ground was at the theater's on-site community school the Children's School for the Development of Intuitive and God Conscious Art. He went on to perform with the youth theater group CityKids eventually graduating from the LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts. By then he had a long resume of both stage experience and television commercials and felt ready to make a go of it in Hollywood.
The 18-year-old newcomer made his film debut almost immediately with a small part in the Harlem-set crime drama Juice (1992 which led to teen thug roles in the similarly hard-hitting Wesley Snipes vehicle Sugar Hill (1994) and New Jersey Drive (1995). For Faison 1995 was a breakthrough year with his role in Clueless (1995) the mega-popular Beverly Hills-set update of Jane Austen's Emma in which Faison played the affable and somewhat goofy high school student Murray. In another of that year's biggest box office hits Faison was seen as Loretta Devine's smart aleck son in the female-focused ensemble drama Waiting to Exhale.

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