Career

Powell has appeared in more than one hundred films, beginning in the 1980s. His credits include Menace II Society (1993), Dead Presidents (1995), Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998), Rush Hour (1998), Next Friday (2000), and its 2002 sequel, Friday After Next, Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004), and Ray (2004). He played Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1999 television film Selma, Lord, Selma. Powell also has had many supporting roles in smaller direct-to-video films in 2000s and 2010s.

On television, Powell had the recurring roles on Roc, South Central, and Army Wives, and well as guest-starred on In the Heat of the Night, Murder, She Wrote, NYPD Blue, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In 2016, Powell was cast as main antagonist in the Bounce TV first prime time soap opera, Saints & Sinners opposite Vanessa Bell Calloway and Gloria Reuben.

Personal life

Powell was born in Washington, D.C.

In 2013 a judgment was entered against Powell for sexual assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress for $153,095.50. According to the plaintiff's attorney, several attempts to collect the debt from the actor in Louisiana had been unsuccessful, so the judgment was recorded in California to garnish the actor's wages.

Selected filmography

Film

• Colors (uncredited) (1988)
• House Party (1990)
• Deep Cover (1992)
• 3 Ninjas (1992)
• Menace II Society (1993)
• Dead Presidents (1995)
• First Time Felon {1997}
• Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
• Deep Rising (1998)
• Phantoms (1998)
• Caught Up (1998)
• Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)
• Rush Hour (1998)
• Foolish (1999)
• Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)
• Hot Boyz (1999)
• The Breaks (1999)
• No Tomorrow (1999)
• Next Friday (2000)
• Lockdown (2000)
• Crime Partners (2000)
• The Brothers (2001)
• Bones (2001)
• Friday After Next (2002)
• Civil Brand (2002)
• Play'd: A Hip Hop Story (2002)
• Love Chronicles (2003)
• Never Die Alone (2004)
• Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)
• Ray (2004)
• The Gospel (2005)
• Who Made the Potato Salad? (2006)
• Norbit (2007)
• First Sunday (2008)
• Street Kings (2008)
• Love for Sale (2008)
• Before I Self Destruct (2009)
• Preacher's Kid (2009)
• Just Another Day (2009)
• Street Kings 2: Motor City (2011)
• 35 and Ticking (2011)
• All Eyez on Me (2016)

Television

• In the Heat of the Night (1993)
• Murder She Wrote (1993 and 1995)
• South Central(1994)
• Roc (1992-1994)
• The Practice (2002)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2003)
• House (2005)
• Eve (2006)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2006)
• Numb3rs (2007)
• Cold Case (2008)
• Army Wives (2009-2010)
• The Boondocks (2010) Episode: "A Date with the Booty Warrior"
• The Mentalist (2011)
• Awake (2012) Episode: "Guilty "
• Unsupervised (2012)
• The Soul Man (2015) Episode: "Tell It Like It Isn't"
• Saints & Sinners (2016)

Video games

• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas- Big Smoke (2004)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]