Keith Stanfield
Keith Stanfield
LaKeith Lee "Keith" Stanfieldis an American actor and rapper. He made his feature film debut in Short Term 12, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. In 2014, he co-starred in the horror film The Purge: Anarchy and in the Martin Luther King biopic Selma, as civil right activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. In 2015, Stanfield appeared in the film Dope, and the biopic about the hip-hop group N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton, portraying Snoop Dogg in the latter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 August 1991
CitySan Bernardino, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I wanted to be as genuine as possible because all those people like Jimmie Lee Jackson - me, Mike Brown, all these people - we're all the same; we're not much different.
My biggest strength is I'm courageous, or if I am afraid of something, I do it anyway. I do what I feel. It's nothing personal against anyone, so that courageousness has been very good to me.
I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.
I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots.
Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role.
I want to be in some Willy Wonka-type weird stuff, a role where I'm an alien. Anything that's new and challenging and real. I like real stuff.
When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.
My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats.
I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most of the negative things that have occurred in my life. I don't carry around much baggage.
It's a hard thing when you've got guns pointed at you, to still stand up for what you believe in. Jimmie Lee and his family did that, and several others.