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'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.
We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced.
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.
You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile.
When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot.
They say every five years the atoms in your body become a new set of atoms.
My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time.
Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.
Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.
I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.
I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.
I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.
I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville.