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 a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.
I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.
It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.
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 influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.
I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville.
I love 'Watch the Throne,' because Kanye was acting so ratchet.