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 feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.
I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.
Some people look like they're lost causes, but they're not. Even if they're in a messed up situation, the one little thing you do to help can go a long way.
The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society.
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.
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.
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.
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.