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Roger Guenveur Smith (born July 27, 1955) is an American actor, director, and writer best known for his collaborations with Spike Lee. [1]
Roger Guenveur Smith is an internationally acclaimed actor, writer, and director who has created a prolific body of work on stage and screen. He adapted his Obie Award-winning solo performance of A Huey P. Newton Story into a Peabody Award-winning telefilm, directed by his longtime colleague Spike Lee, with whom he continues to collaborate in a ...
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Roger Guenveur Smith is an internationally acclaimed actor, writer, and director who has created a prolific body of work on stage and screen. He adapted his Obie Award-winning solo performance of A Huey P. Newton Story into a Peabody Award-winning telefilm, directed by his longtime colleague Spike Lee, with whom he continues to collaborate in a ...
- Actor, Writer, Producer
- July 27, 1955
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.
- Kathryn Walat
- Gave in to The Acting Bug
- Began Work in Films
- Theater remained First Love
- Recreated Huey Newton
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Law school had tempted Smith, as had the idea of teaching history at the college level. His strong desire to instruct led to a year spent teaching English at Hollywood High in Los Angeles following graduate school. Although he eventually gave it up to enter the performing sphere full-time, Smith still teaches performance workshops from time to time...
During the late 1980s Smith began to work in films. In 1989 he appeared in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing Although Smith’s role as Smiley in this extremely controversial film about racial tension was a small one, it was memorable. Smith was allowed to create the role himself. What he developed was the stuttering neighborhood idiot who wandered the ...
Roger Smith’s first love, however, remains the theater. As he told Snowden, “Theater is my foundation and it’s something to which I continually return. It’s a source of creativity that’s really unparalleled because it’s live and direct.” Smith is not one to sit around waiting for his agent’s call; he creates his own work. Since 1990 Smith has been ...
In 1994 Smith began preparation on a piece that would be a landmark in his career, A Huey P. Newton Story. Huey Newton was one of the founders of the Black Panthers. As an in touch urban African American youth, Smith could not help having heard of Newton, but he became more and more aware of the man as Smith grew older. He remembered Newton’s relea...
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Roger Guenveur Smith is an American actor, director, and writer best known for his collaborations with Spike Lee.
Roger Guenveur Smith is an actor, writer, and director who has created a prolific body of work on stage and screen. Roger Guenveur Smith adapted his Obie Award-winning performance of A Huey P. Newton Story into a Peabody Award-winning telefilm.
