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- Asante Blackk was born and raised in Maryland to Ayize and Aiyana Ma'at, both clinical social workers and couples therapists. His father's family is from Alexandria, Virginia and his mother's family is from North Carolina, London, England and Trinidad.
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Asante Duah Ma'at (born October 20, 2001), known professionally as Asante Blackk, is an American actor. He is best known for his role in the miniseries When They See Us (2019), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Asante Blackk was born and raised in Maryland to Ayize and Aiyana Ma'at, both clinical social workers and couples therapists. His father's family is from Alexandria, Virginia and his mother's family is from North Carolina, London, England and Trinidad.
- October 20, 2001
Asante Blackk was born and raised in Maryland to Ayize and Aiyana Ma'at, both clinical social workers and couples therapists. His father's family is from Alexandria, Virginia and his mother's family is from North Carolina, London, England and Trinidad.
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- He’s one of five kids, and his parents are both social workers. Blackk has four younger siblings, according to a bio on imdb.com. His father, Ayize Ma’at, and mother, Aiyana Ma’at, are both clinical social workers and couples therapists.
- The acting bug bit him early. Asante, 17, has been acting since age 5, according to the imdb.com bio, when he was cast as Mowgli in a production of “The Jungle Book.”
- He went after the role in “When They See Us.” Blackk got an agent when he was in ninth grade, he told WHUR-FM in a June interview, and pursued the part in “How They See Us,” getting the role after several auditions and callbacks.
- In the Netflix series, he was cast as a young Kevin Richardson, one of five teens wrongfully convicted of assaulting a Central Park jogger. Richardson was 14 when he was arrested and convicted of a 1989 attack on a jogger in New York’s Central Park.
Oct 20, 2001 · He posts reactions, challenges, tutorials and more on his YouTube channel, which is called ASANTE. Family Life. His parents are the stars of the YouTube channel Relationship Advice with Ayize and Aiyana Maat. Associated With. He's related to actress Samira Wiley.
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Oct 8, 2019 · Blackk became one of the youngest Emmy nominees in history this year thanks to his performance in When They See Us. Blackk's character Malik, a teenage single father in Philadelphia, is shown beginning a relationship with Deja (Lyric Ross) in Tuesday night's episode, "Unhinged."
Mar 2, 2021 · Blackk was born and raised in Maryland to parents Ayize and Aiyana Ma’at. Both his parents are psychotherapists and clinical social workers. The Ma’ats have been together for 24 years and are now helping others through their own experience. They have a website , YouTube channel, and social media handles.
