Bokeem Woodbine is an American film and television actor. Woodbine was born in Harlem, New York to an actress mother. He attended the prestigious Dalton School in New York before transferring to the also prestigious LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in the city. He was an Instrumental Music Major, and the lead singer for the band, Mazard. Bokeem, nicknamed Bo, is also a talented rock musician who both composes songs and plays the guitar for his band, 13 Purple Dragons. A formidable martial artist, he keeps his physique up practicing Shaolin Kung Fu under Shifu Shi... Yan Ming, who is a 34th generation Shaolin Temple Warrior Monk. With the encouragement of his actress mother, Woodbine entered show biz at age 19 as a stand-in and extra in Ernest R. Dickerson's directorial debut, the hip-hop classic "Juice" , starring Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps. In the following year, he made his TV acting debut in the "CBS Schoolbreak Special" entitled "Love Off Limits.
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| Birthdate: | April 13, 1973 |
| Birthplace: | Harlem, New York |
| Age: | 39 |
| Height: | 6' 0" |
| Also known as: | Bo |