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Morris Chestnut
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Morris Lamont Chestnut is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles as teenage father Ricky Baker in the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood, groom-to-be Lance Sullivan in the 1999 film The Best Man, as NBA star Tracy Reynolds in the 2002 film Like Mike, and as the Visitor Ryan Nichols in the TV series V (2009).
His first professional acting role was as Jadon in Freddy's Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series in the episode "A Family Affair" (season 2, episode 19) which aired on February 18, 1990.
Known For
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Bones
2005
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
American Dad!
2005
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
American Horror Story
2011
ER
1994
Rosewood
2015
The Resident
2018
Goliath
2016
Watson
2025
All American
2018
V
2009
Legends
2014
The Enemy Within
2019
Reasonable Doubt
2022
Kick-Ass 2
2013
Boyz n the Hood
1991
Girls Trip
2017
Identity Thief
2013
The Last Boy Scout
1991
The Game Plan
2007
G.I. Jane
1997
Think Like a Man
2012
The Call
2013
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
2004
Heist
2015
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