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Jamal "Gravy" Woolard (born July 8, 1975) is an American actor and rapper. He portrayed rapper The Notorious B.I.G. in the film Notorious , [ 1 ] and reprised the role as a supporting character in the Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me .
Calvin Lockhart (born Bert McClossy Cooper; October 18, 1934 – March 29, 2007) was a Bahamian–American stage and film actor. [3] Lockhart was perhaps best known for his roles as Reverend Deke O'Malley in the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem and Biggie Smalls in the 1975 Warner Bros. film Let's Do It Again.
On March 9, 1997, in Los Angeles, just as The Notorious B.I.G. is stopped at a red light, an assailant in a Chevrolet Impala pulls up next to his SUV and opens fire.. The film flashes back to his childhood in 1980s Brooklyn, New York, where he was a hard-working school student before being groomed into drug dealing.
Finding actors who can accurately portray those artists often requires some musical training, studying of mannerisms, and physical transformations. ... He reprised the role of Biggie Smalls in ...
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), known by the stage names the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, [1] and Biggie, [2] was an American rapper. . Rooted in the New York rap scene and gangsta rap traditions, he is widely considered one of the greatest rappers of all t
Jamal Woolard reprises his role as Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace / The Notorious B.I.G. from Notorious (2009). Talks of a Tupac biopic began in 2011 by Morgan Creek Entertainment Group . The film languished in development hell for several years with various directors, including Antoine Fuqua and John Singleton , attached at different ...
Wallace's breakthrough role was in the 2009 biopic Notorious, where he portrayed his father as a young boy. In 2010, he starred in the comedy film Everything Must Go, [8] [9] [10] but did not have another acting role until starring in the 2016 adventure film Kicks. [11] In 2019, he played Amir in the third season of the VH1 slasher series ...
Unsolved (also titled Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.) is an American true crime drama anthology television miniseries. The miniseries is based on the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur and the 1997 murder of The Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls).