Mekhi Phifer
Biography: Mekhi Thira Phifer (born December 29, 1974) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his multi-year role as Dr. Greg Pratt on NBC's long-running medical drama ER and his co-starring role opposite Eminem in the feature film 8 Mile. He was a regular on the Fox crime show Lie to Me portraying the role of Ben Reynolds, before season 3. He was born in in Harlem, New York City, the son of Rhoda Phifer, a high school teacher; he grew up in a single-parent household with his mother. His acting career began in 1995, when Phifer attended an open casting call for director Spike Lee’s Clockers, beating over a thousand others to get the lead role as a narcotics dealer embroiled in a murder cover-up. He followed that role with another in the comedy spoof feature High School High (which also starred his former wife Malinda Williams) and continued by co-starring in the fright flick I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze, Jr. Among Phifer’s other big-screen credits are Soul Food, The Biography of Spud Webb, Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, Tears of a Clown, O (as the titular character Odin a.k.a. O), and the thriller Uninvited Guest (as Silk). He appeared in Impostor as well as Paid in Full, 8 Mile, opposite Eminem and Dawn of the Dead. Phifer has a son, Omikaye, with his ex-wife, actress Malinda Williams. His second son, Mekhi Thira Phifer Jr., was born to his girlfriend Oni Souratha in Los Angeles on October 30, 2007.
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Birthday: December 29, 1974
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8 Mile
2002-11-08
8 Mile
Overview: For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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Dawn of the Dead
2004-03-19
Dawn of the Dead
Overview: A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-19
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The Silent Hour
2024-10-03
The Silent Hour
Overview: While working a case as an interpreter, a hearing-impaired police detective must confront a group of criminals trying to eliminate a deaf murder witness in her apartment building.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-03
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Honey
2003-11-24
Honey
Overview: Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep kids off the streets. Honey thinks she's hit the jackpot when she meets a hotshot director casts her in one of his music videos. But, when he starts demanding sexual favors from her, Honey makes a decision that will change her life.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-24
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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
1998-11-13
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Overview: Ever since killing the Fisherman one year ago, Julie James is still haunted by images of him after her. When her best friend Karla wins free tickets to the Bahamas, Julie finds this a perfect opportunity to finally relax. But someone is waiting for her. Someone who she thought was dead. Someone who is out again for revenge.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-13
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O
2001-08-31
O
Overview: Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player and future NBA hopeful Odin James has the adoration of all, including the team's coach and the Dean's beautiful daughter Desi. Odin's troubled friend Hugo, the coach's son, is deeply resentful of his father's preference of Odin on and off the court. When Hugo plots a diabolical scheme to sow the seed of mistrust between O and Desi, it sets in motion a disturbing chain of events which erupts into a firestorm of breathtaking intensity.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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Clockers
1995-09-15
Clockers
Overview: Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Detective Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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A Day in the Life
2009-07-07
A Day in the Life
Overview: Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who gets caught up in a bloody war between two feuding crime families while struggling to leave the streets behind. When Black's family raids one of Stick's drug houses and kills two of his men, Stick is forced to choose between leaving it all behind or seeking revenge and feeding the cycle of violence.
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-07
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The Tuskegee Airmen
1995-08-25
The Tuskegee Airmen
Overview: During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.
Genres: War History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-25
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Puff, Puff, Pass
2006-05-09
Puff, Puff, Pass
Overview: Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a shady character named Mr. Big after the duo sours on rehab.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-09
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High School High
1996-10-25
High School High
Overview: Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-25
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Paid in Full
2002-10-25
Paid in Full
Overview: Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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Uninvited Guest
1999-06-01
Uninvited Guest
Overview: During a small gathering, a smooth, seductive stranger is invited into a couple's house party and falls in love with the wife. Turns out the stranger is an escaped convict who demands that the wife leave the country with him and threatens to kill anyone who stands in his way.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-01
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Soul Food
1997-09-26
Soul Food
Overview: Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy strikes, it's up to grandson Ahmad (Brandon Hammond) to pull the family together and put the soul back into the family's weekly gatherings.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-26
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Flypaper
2011-08-19
Flypaper
Overview: A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-19
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Hell's Kitchen
1998-09-11
Hell's Kitchen
Overview: Newly released from jail, an ex-gang member asks a former contender to teach him to box.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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Carmen: A Hip Hopera
2001-05-08
Carmen: A Hip Hopera
Overview: An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.
Genres: Drama Music Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-08
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Slow Burn
2005-09-12
Slow Burn
Overview: A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney (Jolene Blalock) and a cryptic stranger.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-12
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A Lesson Before Dying
1999-05-22
A Lesson Before Dying
Overview: In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince school teacher go to the convicted man's cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-22
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Nora's Hair Salon II: A Cut Above
2008-05-13
Nora's Hair Salon II: A Cut Above
Overview: Simone arrives in Los Angeles after inheriting her late aunt's hair salon where she soon clashes with the diva hairstylist who has her own ideas about the salon's future.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-13
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Lights Out
2024-02-16
Lights Out
Overview: A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunning for him and all those he cares about.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-16
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Last Man Standing
2011-06-07
Last Man Standing
Overview: Abby Collins's quiet life as a wife and mother shows no trace of her past work as a military special-ops expert -- until the day her husband is kidnapped. With no alternative, Abby must resort to her long-dormant lethal skills to save her spouse.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-07
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Hav Plenty
1997-09-11
Hav Plenty
Overview: Lee Plenty is an almost broke would-be novelist and Havilland Savage is a rich and very beautiful woman and his friend. When she invites him to her home for New Year's Eve, they start to build up a romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-11
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The Other Brother
2002-04-26
The Other Brother
Overview: A frustrated writer reluctantly turns to his womanizing brother for advice about the opposite sex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-26
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Divergent
2014-03-14
Divergent
Overview: In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-14
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The Love Section
2013-02-01
The Love Section
Overview: Ali (LAWRENCE ADISA), is a struggling real estate agent and ladies man who has never desired to commit to anyone or anything. One night while out with his buddy Chris (OMAR MILLER), Ali meets and falls for Sandrine (DAVETTA SHERWOOD), a single mother who works hard and is looking for love. Ali’s best friend Joel (BRIAN HOOKS) and his wife (TANGI MILLER) are happy to see Ali cut off his line of women, while Sandrine’s best friend Steph (TEYANA TAYLOR) is unenthusiastic about Sandrine welcoming a man into her home to meet her son and mother (KELLITA SMITH). With a declining real estate career and issues with his new relationship, Ali starts questioning just how committed he’s willing to be. One important meeting with real estate mogul James Johnson (MEKHI PHIFER) could change his life for forever. For the first time it looks like Ali may make a transformation if he can steer clear of obstacles. In the end will love conquer all? Or will broken hearts be all that’s left of their romance?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-01
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The Making of '8 Mile'
2003-03-18
The Making of '8 Mile'
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-18
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The Suspect
2013-01-23
The Suspect
Overview: Two African American social scientists pose as bank robbers in an effort to understand the racial dynamics of small-town law enforcement. However, their experiment takes an unplanned turn.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-23
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NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002-05-05
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
Overview: A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-05
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Insurgent
2015-03-18
Insurgent
Overview: Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-18
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Impostor
2001-12-03
Impostor
Overview: A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-03
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The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
2024-08-07
The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
Overview: Three lifelong best friends known as “The Supremes” share the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood from decades of weathering life’s storms. Through the joys and sorrows of life, marriage and children, happiness and blues, love and loss, new shades of heartbreak and illness threaten to stir up the past when the trio sees their bond put to the test as they face their most challenging times yet.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-07
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Pandemic
2016-02-26
Pandemic
Overview: After a virus of epic proportions overwhelms the planet—with more infected than uninfected—humanity is losing its grip on survival and its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren, a doctor, arrives in Los Angeles with her crack team to lead the hunt for uncontaminated civilian survivors, but nothing can prepare them for the blood-soaked mayhem they witness as they head into the Californian streets where everything is considered a trap.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-26
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Long Gone Heroes
2024-09-20
Long Gone Heroes
Overview: Gunner, a special forces soldier who has witnessed the darkest side of country and combat, is forced back into the field of battle to save his niece, who is being held in South America. As the fight intensifies, Gunner and his team discover that her disappearance is part of a corrupt private operation that hits way too close to home.
Genres: Action War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-20
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Allegiant
2016-03-09
Allegiant
Overview: Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-09
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Brian's Song
2001-12-02
Brian's Song
Overview: The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo contracted a fatal disease
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-02
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A Talent For Trouble
2018-04-06
A Talent For Trouble
Overview: Set in the early 2000's when hip hop video's meant something. Sean Wellington, a neurotic music video director who was just given the opportunity of a lifetime to direct his first feature film. In the midst of this celebration, comes a tumultuous breakup with his girlfriend as his neurosis loom overhead while he tries to reorganize his personal and professional life. A Talent For Trouble is a story of Sean's battle to balance real-life romance while living through a camera lens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-06
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Chocolate City: Vegas Strip
2016-07-04
Chocolate City: Vegas Strip
Overview: The Chocolate City dancers come together to save their club from foreclosure. They decide to enter a national stripper competition, traveling all the way to Las Vegas to try their luck.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-04
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This Christmas
2007-11-27
This Christmas
Overview: This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and they've brought plenty of baggage with them. As the Christmas tree is trimmed and the lights are hung, secrets are revealed and family bonds are tested. As their lives converge, they join together and help each other discover the true meaning of family.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-27
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A Day Late and a Dollar Short
2014-04-19
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Overview: When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-19
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Canal Street
2019-01-18
Canal Street
Overview: A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-18
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Girl 6
1996-03-22
Girl 6
Overview: A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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Shaft
2000-06-15
Shaft
Overview: New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-15
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Obsession
2019-09-27
Obsession
Overview: Before meeting George Good, Sonny Jordan was just a lost drifter with a troubled past floating from town to town, looking for work. As fate would have it, Sonny ends up saving George's life from a murderous back-alley mugger. As thanks, George gives Sonny a home and a job as a mechanic on his farm in the lonely Louisiana Bayou. Sonny quickly settles in and makes himself useful around the place but then Sonny meets Larissa, George's alluring wife. She has a mysterious past and the two are irresistibly drawn to each other. The two begin a passionate affair leading them to construct a twisted plot to take George's life in cold blood in order to be together. As their despicable plan unravels, they learn how far they are willing to go to cover their misdeed.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-27
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Subway Stories
1997-07-24
Subway Stories
Overview: An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-24
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