Keith Stanfield
Keith Stanfield
LaKeith Lee "Keith" Stanfieldis an American actor and rapper. He made his feature film debut in Short Term 12, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. In 2014, he co-starred in the horror film The Purge: Anarchy and in the Martin Luther King biopic Selma, as civil right activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. In 2015, Stanfield appeared in the film Dope, and the biopic about the hip-hop group N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton, portraying Snoop Dogg in the latter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 August 1991
CitySan Bernardino, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.
Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.
I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.
I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.
I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.
I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.
I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.
I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots.
I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville.
I want to be in some Willy Wonka-type weird stuff, a role where I'm an alien. Anything that's new and challenging and real. I like real stuff.
I love 'Watch the Throne,' because Kanye was acting so ratchet.
I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.
I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.
Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.