Acting

Omar Epps

Born July 20, 1973 · New York City, New York, USA (age 53)

Omar Hashim Epps (born July 20, 1973) is an American actor, rapper, and producer. Epps's film roles include Juice, Higher Learning, The Wood, In Too Deep, and Love & Basketball. His television work includes the role of Dr Dennis Gant in the medical drama series ER, J. Martin Bellamy in Resurrection, Dr Eric Foreman on the Fox medical drama series House from 2004 to 2012, Isaac Johnson in the TV se…

Known For

Scream 2

Scream 2 · 1997

MovieHorrorMystery

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood · 1996

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

MovieComedyCrime

When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?

The Deliverance

The Deliverance · 2024

The Deliverance

MovieHorrorThriller

Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children.

Almost Christmas

Almost Christmas · 2016

Almost Christmas

MovieComedyDrama

A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since the death of their matriarch.

Higher Learning

Higher Learning · 1995

Higher Learning

MovieDramaCrime

African-American student Malik is on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge, a "professional student" who has been at Columbus for six years so far, becomes friendly with Malik and challenges his views about race and politics in America.

Major League II

Major League II · 1994

Major League II

After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Cleveland Indians are determined to make it into the World Series this time! However, they first have to contend with Rachel Phelps again when she buys back the team.

Big Trouble

Big Trouble · 2002

MovieActionComedy

The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, "Big Trouble."

Dracula 2000

Dracula 2000 · 2000

When a team of techno-savvy thieves break into a high-security vault, they don't discover priceless works of art... they find a crypt unopened for 100 years.

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Scream 2

Scream 2 · 1997

MovieHorrorMystery

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

Phil

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood · 1996

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

MovieComedyCrime

When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?

Malik

The Deliverance

The Deliverance · 2024

The Deliverance

MovieHorrorThriller

Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children.

Melvin

Almost Christmas

Almost Christmas · 2016

Almost Christmas

MovieComedyDrama

A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since the death of their matriarch.

Malachi

Higher Learning

Higher Learning · 1995

Higher Learning

MovieDramaCrime

African-American student Malik is on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge, a "professional student" who has been at Columbus for six years so far, becomes friendly with Malik and challenges his views about race and politics in America.

Malik Williams

Major League II

Major League II · 1994

Major League II

After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Cleveland Indians are determined to make it into the World Series this time! However, they first have to contend with Rachel Phelps again when she buys back the team.

Willie Mays Hayes

Big Trouble

Big Trouble · 2002

MovieActionComedy

The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, "Big Trouble."

Seitz

Dracula 2000

Dracula 2000 · 2000

When a team of techno-savvy thieves break into a high-security vault, they don't discover priceless works of art... they find a crypt unopened for 100 years.

Marcus

Juice

MovieCrimeDrama

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

Quincy 'Q' Powell

Alfie

MovieComedyDrama

A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.

Marlon

Brother

Brother · 2000

MovieCrimeDrama

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.

Denny

In Too Deep

In Too Deep · 1999

MovieDramaAction

Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an assumed identity to penetrate Gittens' criminal empire, he makes a disturbing discovery -- he kind of likes being a gangster.

Jeff Cole / J. Reid

Traffik

Traffik · 2018

MovieThrillerAction

A couple off for a romantic weekend in the mountains are accosted by a biker gang. Alone in the mountains, Brea and John must defend themselves against the gang, who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.

John

Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions · 1999

Breakfast of Champions

MovieComedyDrama

A millionaire car salesman who runs the biggest dealership in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is a celebrity, loved and trusted by everyone. Then one day, he wakes up and realizes that his life is a total mess! But between the headaches posed by his pill-popping wife, a mistress who won't leave him alone, and a cross-dressing sales manager, Dwayne has picked a bad week for a midlife crisis.

Wayne Hoobler

Moses the Black

Moses the Black · 2026

Moses the Black

MovieCrimeDrama

A gangster in modern day Chicago, inspired by the repentance story of the fourth-century saint of the same name.

Executive Producer

Perfume

Perfume · 2001

MovieComedyDrama

A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York City.

J.B.

Against the Ropes

Against the Ropes · 2004

Against the Ropes

MovieRomanceDrama

A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport.

Luther Shaw

Trick

MovieHorrorThriller

A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.

Detective Mike Denver

The Wood

The Wood · 1999

MovieComedyDrama

In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.

Mike

Love & Basketball

Love & Basketball · 2000

Love & Basketball

MovieComedyDrama

Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.

Quincy McCall

The Mod Squad

The Mod Squad · 1999

MovieActionMystery

Three youthful delinquents escape conviction for their crimes by teaming with the LAPD.

Lincoln Hayes

Daybreak

Daybreak · 1993

MovieActionDrama

When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death. But a gutsy rebel named Torch sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary.

Hunter

The Program

The Program · 1993

MovieDramaAction

Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.

Darnell Jefferson

The Devil You Know

The Devil You Know · 2022

The Devil You Know

MovieThrillerDrama

Once-incarcerated Marcus Cowans is trying to turn over a new leaf with the support of his loving family. Upon discovering that one of his brothers may have been involved in a horrific crime, Marcus grapples with the limits of brotherhood and loyalty. He and his family, increasingly weary of the justice system’s failings, end up in the crosshairs of a seasoned but jaded detective.

Marcus Cowans

House

Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

Eric Foreman

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

Dennis Gant

This Is Us

This Is Us · 2016

Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.

Darnell Hodges

Screen Two

Screen Two · 1985

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Kingsley

Shooter

Shooter · 2016

SeriesAction & AdventureWar & Politics

Bob Lee Swagger is an expert marksman living in exile who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president.

Isaac Johnson

Power Book III: Raising Kanan

Power Book III: Raising Kanan · 2021

Power Book III: Raising Kanan

SeriesDramaCrime

Set in South Jamaica, Queens, in 1991, this prequel to "Power" revolves around the coming of age of Kanan Stark.

Malcolm Howard

Resurrection

Resurrection · 2014

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

The people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to reappear.

J. Martin Bellamy

Street Justice

Street Justice · 1991

SeriesAction & Adventure

Street Justice is an American action crime drama series starring Carl Weathers and Bryan Genesse. The series began airing in syndication in 1991, and was canceled in 1993 after two seasons.

Clint

The Crew Has It

The Crew Has It · 2022

The Crew Has It

SeriesTalkDocumentary

Gianni Paolo and Michael Rainey Jr have teamed up to give fans an inside look at the entire Power universe. In the first episode the actors will tell you how they got on the Starz series and reveal some never told before stories from on set.

Here and Now

Here and Now · 1992

Here and Now is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from September 19, 1992 to January 2, 1993. The series starred Malcolm-Jamal Warner in the lead role, who prior to this series co-starred in The Cosby Show which ended its run in Spring 1992. Bill Cosby served as one on the show's executive producers along with Warner serving as executive consultant credited as M.J. Warner. The song "Tennessee" by Arrested Development was used as the show's theme song.

Curtis