Morris ChestnutSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Morris Chestnut’s career trajectory has paralleled the film industry’s belated realization that audiences enjoy films that present a more balanced view of contemporary African-American life: he made his debut in the early 1990s in the seminal urban culture film, "Boyz N the Hood," but later found success as a handsome lead in several romantic comedies. Chestnut has often been described as one of Hollywood’s new breed of black heartthrobs, with his “cool liquid eyes, a killer smile, and a fleet, almost musical way with dialogue,” noted Entertainment Weekly reviewer Owen Gleiberman, each of which “hints at something held back, a hidden force behind his lightness. That force is what makes him a potentially major actor.”

Chestnut was born in Cerritos, California on January 1, 1969. He took acting courses in college along with his business studies at California State University’s Northridge campus. He claimed to have never planned on making a career of acting, and described himself to Ebony as “really the shy type.”

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