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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Roger Guenveur Smith has frequently collaborated with Spike Lee. From Malcolm X to Do The Right Thing, his characters have run the gamut. Guenveur Smith's most notable was as Huey P. Newton.
Actor, writer and director Roger Guenveur Smith was the well-respected and award-winning creator of such acclaimed one-man shows as "A Huey P. Newton Story" (1989), as well as a character...
Actor, writer and director Roger Guenveur Smith was the well-respected and award-winning creator of such acclaimed one-man shows as "A Huey P. Newton Story" (1989), as well as a character actor in films ranging from "Do the Right Thing" (1989) to "American Gangster" (2007).
Mar 10, 2022 · In ‘Otto Frank,’ Roger Guenveur Smith illuminates the life of Anne Frank’s father. At Magic Theatre, the veteran playwright and actor's solo show revolves around the Holocaust survivor's life and struggle. By Emily Wilson. March 10, 2022.
Sep 29, 2015 · The lifeless body of Rodney King, a semiliterate construction worker who unexpectedly became a byword for racial tumult after his 1991 videotaped beating by white L.A. police...
Roger Guenveur Smith will premiere his new solo performance OTTO FRANK at the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, January 22-29, 2023. The Public's UNDER THE RADAR Festival Begins...
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.
Apr 6, 2023 · From A Different World to today’s grown-ish, the Black college experience became a staple of culture into the new decade. The film was also the debut role for actor, writer, producer, and frequent Lee collaborator, Roger Guenveur Smith. Smith has since appeared in eight of Lee’s films – the most of any actor – and continues to stretch ...
Jun 27, 2018 · Roger Guenveur Smith is not a famous actor, nor would his face be readily recognized on the street. He is, however, an extremely well-respected actor who makes a point of accepting provocative roles in theater, television, and film.
Nov 7, 2018 · Spike Lee is set to direct “Frederick Douglass Now,” his third movie adaptation of a one-man stage show by Roger Guenveur Smith, after “A Huey P. Newton Story” and “Rodney King.”
Apr 12, 2023 · Roger Guenveur Smith is an American actor, director, and writer. He has appeared in the films Do the Right Thing , Poetic Justice , Panther (1995), and Final Destination , among many other roles. Roger is the son of Helen Marie (Guenveur), a dentist, and Sherman Wendell Smith, a judge.
Mar 22, 2022 · Berkeley-born actor Roger Guenveur Smith is channeling the ghost of Anne Frank’s father, Otto, during a fraught time in Europe, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues. “In this particular international moment, what he brings to the table is extraordinary and extraordinarily vital,” he said.
Mar 13, 2022 · Roger Guenveur Smith uncloaks human suffering and depravity across the centuries in “Otto Frank” at Magic Theatre. Photo: Photo Jay Yamada. If his solo show “Otto Frank” were courtroom...
Oct 12, 2023 · Roger Guenveur Smith was not initially cast in the film, but every day during production he’d ask Lee to find a place for him in the story.
Join Gagosian for a conversation between director, producer, and writer Sophia Heriveaux and actor, director, and writer Roger Guenveur Smith to mark the closing of the exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat: Made on Market Street at Gagosian, Beverly Hills.
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.
Roger Guenveur Smith adapted his Obie Award-winning performance of A Huey P. Newton Story into a Peabody Award-winning telefilm. His Bessie Award-winning Rodney King is currently streaming on Netflix. His latest solo is Otto Frank, inspired by the father of diarist Anne Frank.
Aug 19, 2020 · Roger Guenveur is a proud father of four, three with current wife, LeTania Kirkland Smith, and one from his previous marriage with Carolina Smith. Hence, here is everything we know about Roger Guenveur Smith’s children.
Actor, writer and director Roger Guenveur Smith was the well-respected and award-winning creator of such acclaimed one-man shows as "A Huey P. Newton Story" (1989), as well as a character actor in films ranging from "Do the Right Thing" (1989) to "American Gangster" (2007).
Aug 17, 2020 · Roger Guenveur Smith is an American actor, and director best known for his collaborations with Spike Lee. Born in 1955 in California, Smith has worked in several movies, including Malcolm X, Poetic Justice, etc.
