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A dynamic performer with a big body and even bigger screen presence, African-American funnyman Anthony Anderson became an almost ubiquitous feature player beginning in 1999, providing comic relief in an impressive number of films early on in his career. The California native landed his first professional job at age five, appearing in a television commercial. Twenty years later, he could be seen on the NBC sitcom "In the House", starring LL Cool J. While Anderson's career lulled, the performer was busy with his education, attending a performing arts high school and earning a talent scholarship to the prestigious Howard University. A 1996 cameo in "Alien Avengers", a segment of the Showtime series "Roger Corman Presents", led to a regular role as a hefty but capable basketball player on the NBC teen series "Hang Time" (from 1997 to 1998). A guest role on "NYPD Blue" followed in 1998, predating his feature film onslaught, which began with 1999's "Life", a 1930s prison comedy starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence.
Baby-faced enough that he was able to play teens well into his twenties but easily aged with a bit of facial hair, Anderson proved a versatile player, and followed up his role in "Life" with a part in Barry Levinson's 1950s Baltimore-set drama "Liberty Heights" and a guest turn on the UPN sitcom "Malcolm and Eddie". The actor ushered in 2000 with credits in two episodes of "Ally McBeal" (Fox) before taking on Andrzej Bartkowiak's "Romeo Must Die", where he played a bumbling bodyguard. He reteamed with Martin Lawrence as an over-ambitious security guard in "Big Momma's House" and played one of a group of film students targeted by a mysterious murderer in "Urban Legends: Final Cut". He was given more room to strut his stuff in "Me, Myself & Irene" as Jamaal, the most vocal of Jim Carrey's overgrown triplet sons (born to his wife after an affair with an African-American midget). One of the few well-rounded roles in the Farrelly brothers film, Jamaal was foul-mouthed but well-educated, and unexpectedly respectful of his father, the town pushover.
Anderson played David Arquette's postal colleague and confidant in the inane comedy "See Spot Run" in 2001. That year saw him with breakout roles in the actioner "Exit Wounds" and the funeral-set feature "Kingdom Come". Reteaming with Bartkowiak and DMX on the former, Anderson brought much-needed comic relief to the casualty-heavy Steven Seagal caper, working with Tom Arnold to make a genuinely funny if unexpected comedy pair. In "Kingdom Come", Anderson won raves as the worthless womanizing husband of demanding Jada Pinkett Smith. Later that year, the actor was featured in the romantic comedy "Two Can Play That Game." And in 2003, Anderson starred, alongside Jerry O'Connell, as a New Yorker on the lam in the Australian Outback in the comedy feature "Kangaroo Jack."
A dynamic performer with a big body and even bigger screen presence, African-American funnyman Anthony Anderson became an almost ubiquitous feature player beginning in 1999, providing comic relief in an impressive number of films early on in his career. The California native landed his first professional job at age five, appearing in a television commercial. Twenty years later, he could be seen on the NBC sitcom "In the House", starring LL Cool J. While Anderson's career lulled, the performer was busy with his education, attending a performing arts high school and earning a talent scholarship to the prestigious Howard University. A 1996 cameo in "Alien Avengers", a segment of the Showtime series "Roger Corman Presents", led to a regular role as a hefty but capable basketball player on the NBC teen series "Hang Time" (from 1997 to 1998). A guest role on "NYPD Blue" followed in 1998, predating his feature film onslaught, which began with 1999's "Life", a 1930s prison comedy starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence.
Baby-faced enough that he was able to play teens well into his twenties but easily aged with a bit of facial hair, Anderson proved a versatile player, and followed up his role in "Life" with a part in Barry Levinson's 1950s Baltimore-set drama "Liberty Heights" and a guest turn on the UPN sitcom "Malcolm and Eddie". The actor ushered in 2000 with credits in two episodes of "Ally McBeal" (Fox) before taking on Andrzej Bartkowiak's "Romeo Must Die", where he played a bumbling bodyguard. He reteamed with Martin Lawrence as an over-ambitious security guard in "Big Momma's House" and played one of a group of film students targeted by a mysterious murderer in "Urban Legends: Final Cut". He was given more room to strut his stuff in "Me, Myself & Irene" as Jamaal, the most vocal of Jim Carrey's overgrown triplet sons (born to his wife after an affair with an African-American midget). One of the few well-rounded roles in the Farrelly brothers film, Jamaal was foul-mouthed but well-educated, and unexpectedly respectful of his father, the town pushover.
Anderson played David Arquette's postal colleague and confidant in the inane comedy "See Spot Run" in 2001. That year saw him with breakout roles in the actioner "Exit Wounds" and the funeral-set feature "Kingdom Come". Reteaming with Bartkowiak and DMX on the former, Anderson brought much-needed comic relief to the casualty-heavy Steven Seagal caper, working with Tom Arnold to make a genuinely funny if unexpected comedy pair. In "Kingdom Come", Anderson won raves as the worthless womanizing husband of demanding Jada Pinkett Smith. Later that year, the actor was featured in the romantic comedy "Two Can Play That Game." And in 2003, Anderson starred, alongside Jerry O'Connell, as a New Yorker on the lam in the Australian Outback in the comedy feature "Kangaroo Jack."
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