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Mos Def - Rapper, actor

Occupation: Rapper, actor Birth Name: Dante Terrell Smith Birth Date: 12/11/1973 Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA Height: 5' 9" Sex: M Nationality: American Father: Abdul Rahman Mother: Sheron Smith Spouse: Maria Yepes (1996 - 2005) Claim Fame: Album "Black on Both Sides" (1999)

Mos Def (born Dante Beze on December 11, 1973) is a Brooklyn-born rapper and actor, who actually began his performing career on The Cosby Mysteries in 1994. He switched to rap music and worked with De La Soul and da Bush Babees before releasing his own first single, "Universal Magnetic" which was a huge underground hit, he then became involved with Rawkus Records. Mos Def and Talib Kweli released Black Star, a full length album, in 1998, with DJ Hi-Tek as producer. Mos Def released his solo debut, Black on Both Sides, in 1999. After the collapse of Rawkus, Mos along with Talib signed on to Interscope/Geffen.
An earlier generation of rappers, including Brand Nubian and De La Soul, had made some groundbreaking, thoughtful rap music. They had been replaced by gangsta rap though, and Mos Def (a practicing Muslim) was one of the principal causes of a revival in such socially aware rap, which also involved Kweli, Common and others.
He returned to acting in 2000 and has starred in Monster's Ball , Bamboozled, the 2003 remake of the The Italian Job and the 2004 film The Woodsman. He also starred in Topdog/Underdog on Broadway, and in 2004 he starred in the HBO movie Something the Lord Made. Currently he stars in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie as Ford Prefect and hosts the award-winning show Def Poetry on HBO. In 2004 he also hosted the MOBO awards in London, after the original presenter, Pharrell Williams pulled out at the last minute.
He was also part of Black Jack Johnson, an all-black rock group (also including Dr. Know, Bernie Worrell, Doug Wimbish and Will Calhoun) to rescue rock music from what they saw as boring and staid groups, such as Limp Bizkit, whom Mos Def openly despises. The group has performed a few concerts.

Filmography:

Year	Name	Star	Genre	Other
2009	The Brazilian Job	Left Ear	MV
2008	Bobby Zero		MV
2008	Be Kind Rewind	Mike	MV
2008	Keep Coming Back		MV
2008	Little Scarlet	Mouse	MV
2007	Be Kind Rewind	Mike	MV
2007	Stringbean and Marcus		MV
2006	The Brazilian Job	Left Ear	MV
2006	Journey to the End of the Night	Wemba	MV
2005	Lackawanna Blues	Bandleader	TV
2005	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Ford Prefect	MV
2005	Lackawanna Blues	The Bandleader	TM
2004	Focused Digizine #1	Blak (VO)	VI	aka Livre de J?r?mie, Le (France)
2004	Something the Lord Made	Vivien Thomas	TM	aka M. Night Shyamalan's The Village
2004	Something the Lord Made	Vivien Thomas	TV
2004	Focused Digizine #1	Blak (VO)	MV
2002	Civil Brand	Michael Meadows	MV
2002	Brown Sugar	Christopher 'Chris' Shawn	MV	aka Seven Days
2001	Monster's Ball	Ryrus Cooper	MV	aka Bal du monstre, Le (Canada: French title)
2001	Carmen: A Hip Hopera	Frank Miller	TV
2001	Carmen: A Hip Hopera	Frank Miller	TM
2000	Bamboozled	Mau Mau: Big Blak Afrika	MV
1998	Where's Marlowe?	Wilt Crawley	MV
1997	Ghosts	Dante	MV	aka Michael Jackson's Ghosts
1994	The Cosby Mysteries	Dante	TV	aka Guy Hanks I
1994	The Cosby Mysteries	Dante	TV
1991	The Hard Way	Dead Romeos	MV
1990	You Take the Kids	Raymond Kirkland (age 16)	TV
1988	God Bless the Child	Richard	TM	aka Choix tragique, Le (Canada: French title)

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