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Occupation
  
actor, writer

Books
  
Basic Training

Movies
  
Akeelah and the Bee

Role
  
Actor

Name
  
Kahlil Ashanti



Born
  
November 3, 1973 (age 50) (
1973-11-03
)
Landstuhl, Germany

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Kahlil Ashanti (Born November 3, 1973 in Landstuhl, Germany) is an American actor and writer.

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Kahlil Ashanti began his career as a teenager, performing at a community theater and at open mic nights at comedy clubs throughout the Midwestern United States. He then enlisted in the United States Air Force, winning the 1993 Air Force Worldwide Talent Contest, after which he toured with the elite Air Force Entertainment troupe Tops in Blue in 1994 and 1995 as a comedian, dancer, and actor. After being honorably discharged in 1996, Kahlil performed his own magic and comedy dinner theater show at Caesar's Magical Empire, Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas from 1997–2000. Upon his arrival in Los Angeles in 2001, he began writing his one man show, 'Basic Training', which premiered at the 2nd Stage Theater in October 2004 and played Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theater in the fall of 2008.

Kahlil ashanti on studio 4 with host fanny kiefer


Awards and nominations

  • Montreal English Critics Circle Award – Best Visiting Production
  • NAACP Image Award (for 'Basic Training' Los Angeles Director Nick DeGruccio)
  • Montreal Fringe – Best Production
  • Vancouver Fringe Festival – Best Production
  • Melbourne Fringe – Best Male Performance
  • Scotsman Fringe First Award For Excellence in Writing And Performance
  • Edinburgh Fringe Sell Out Show 2005, 2007
  • New York Times Critics Pick

    • Filmography

    Actor
    2020
    Supernatural (TV Series) as
    Sheriff Evans
    - The Gamblers (2020) - Sheriff Evans
    2016
    The Tick (TV Series) as
    Goat
    - The End of the Beginning (Or the Start of the Dawn of the Age of Superhero) (2018) - Goat
    - The Beginning of the End (2018) - Goat
    - My Dinner with Android (2018) - Goat
    - Tale from the Crypt (2018) - Goat
    - Rising (2017) - Goat
    - Secret Identity (2017) - Goat
    - Where's My Mind (2017) - Goat
    - The Tick (2016) - Goat
    2008
    The Break (Short) as
    Jersey Jack
    2006
    Akeelah and the Bee as
    Postman
    2003
    Russkie v Gorode Angelov (TV Series) as
    African-American policeman
    - Operatsiya (2003) - African-American policeman (as Kahlil Ashanti Walton)
    Self
    2014
    Not Business As Usual (Documentary)(voice)

    References

    Kahlil Ashanti Wikipedia
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