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Mekhi Phifer

Highest Rated:
80% Soul Food (1997)
Lowest Rated:
7% I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
Birthday:
Dec 29, 1974
Birthplace:
Harlem, New York, USA
Bio:
Although he had almost no prior acting experience, Mekhi Phifer made a highly auspicious screen debut as Strike, a 19-year-old petty drug dealer in Spike Lee's gritty urban drama Clockers (1995). A veteran of the Harlem streets, Phifer got his break when he attended an open casting call with only…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 7% - 80%
Number of Movies: 29
Box Office Since 2001: $279.9M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 Last Man Standing
  • Actor
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2011 17% Flypaper
  • Darrien
$1.1k
2009 A Day in the Life
  • Actor
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2008 Nora's Hair Salon II (Nora's Hair Salon 2)
  • Actor
  • Producer
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2007 55% This Christmas
  • Gerald
  • Producer
$49.1M
2007 12% Slow Burn
  • Isaac Duperde
$1.2M
2007 Day in the Life
  • King Khi
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2006 Puff, Puff, Pass
  • Director
  • Actor
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2004 78% With All Deliberate Speed
  • Actor
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2004 74% Dawn of the Dead
  • Andre
$58.9M
2004 The MC: Why We Do It
  • Actor
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2003 20% Honey
  • Chaz
$30.2M
2002 76% 8 Mile
  • Future
$116.6M
2002 51% Paid in Full
  • Mitch
$3.0M
2001 Carmen - A Hip Hopera
  • Sgt. Derek Hill
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2001 64% O
  • Odin James
$15.5M
2001 Brian's Song
  • Gale Sayers
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2001 33% The Other Brother
  • Martin
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2000 22% Impostor
  • Cale
$5.3M
2000 68% Shaft
  • Trey Howard
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1999 Uninvited Guest
  • Silk
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1999 A Lesson Before Dying
  • Jefferson
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1998 40% Hell's Kitchen N.Y.C.
  • Johnny Miller
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1998 7% I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
  • Tyrell
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1997 SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground
  • Actor
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1997 80% Soul Food
  • Lem
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1997 36% Hav Plenty
  • Harold
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1996 13% High School High
  • Grif McReynolds
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1995 68% Clockers
  • Strike
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Quotes from Mekhi Phifer's Characters

    1. Future: I had a lotta names, baby - The most jealous names. I used to be called Maximum, Brimstone, Godfather D - None of 'em worked, you-know-what-Ima-sayin'? 'Til one day someone said I was the future of hip-hop in Detroit. And that was it.
    From 8 Mile. Submitted by Chris P (9 months ago)
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