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About
Actor, former professional basketball player, and Instagram personality known for starring as NBA pioneer Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton in the 2023 biographical sports film Sweetwater and for his role as Wesley in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Again?
Before fame
He played basketball at Palisades High School in Los Angeles before competing at the NCAA Division I level for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 2016 and played professional basketball in Australia for three seasons before returning to the US in 2019 to focus on his acting career. He appeared in an episode of Sistas in 2021 and Chicago Fire in 2022 before landing his breakout movie role in Sweetwater in 2023.
Trivia
He won Best Actor at the 2024 Boston Film Festival for Sweetwater. He originally became passionate about basketball after watching Space Jam as a child while growing up watching Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal play for the Lakers.
Family life
He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
Associated with
He appeared alongside LeBron James and Kevin Durant in Nike's 2017 "Want It All" commercial.
