Anthony Anderson is an American movie actor. A native of Maine. Works as an actor, producer, screenwriter. He gained world fame thanks to roles in feature films: "Me, I and Irene Again", "Transformers", "The Departed". He took part in the creation of popular television projects of a multi-series format: Shameless, Veronica Mars, Law and Order. Special Corps ”,“ Beauties ”. Films with Anthony Anderson belong to the genres: comedy, crime, drama. In 2017, he became a contender for the Golden Globe Award in the nomination for Best Actor on TV for his work in the movie Black Comedy. He worked closely with actors: Regina Hall, Vivica A. Fox, Loretta Devine, Paula Jay Parker, Jeffrey Tambor and others.
The zodiac sign is Leo. Married to Alvina Stewart. The father of two children.
Biography
Was born on August 15, 1970 in the city of Augusta , Maine, in an acting family. He spent his childhood and youth in the California city of Compton, a locality with an unfavorable criminal situation. He first appeared on the set at the age of five, when he took part in the creation of a television clip. After receiving a secondary education, Anthony Anderson sat behind a student bench at Howard University, having managed to unlearn his studies at one of the acting schools before that.
Movie debut
In 1990, he appeared in the television project Law and Order, playing Kevin Bernard in this crime series. In 1993, he received a supporting role in the series "The New York Police", events in which develop around the employees of one of the police stations in the American metropolis. In 1997, depicts Hood Alley at number 2 in the science fiction comedy series “Welcome to Earth.” At the center of this story is the retired fraudster Joseph, who, without knowing it, settled aliens in his home who arrived on Earth to kill people.
In 1996, appeared in the role of a clumsy basketball student, Teddy Brodis in the television project Hanging Time. Anthony Anderson then played a hero who is much younger than him, but his childish face and youthful enthusiasm allowed him to harmoniously develop the image of his character for two years.
Big roles
In 1999, he was fortunate enough to become a partner in the comedic movie stars Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence in the crime-style film Lifetime. This is a funny story about 1932, when two heroes who found themselves in a difficult situation during the Prohibition period need to overtake a car in which boxes of alcoholic drinks are loaded from Mississippi to New York. In 2000, Anthony Anderson played the hero’s son Jim Carrey in the comedy “Me, I and Irene Again”, which tells the story of the adventures of a law servant, in whose body two personalities “live” two rude Hank and weak-willed Charlie.
New roles
In 2017, he played a major role in the crime detective “Crime in a small town”, in which a former policeman suffering from alcohol addiction tries to find those involved in the murder of a young girl. Then he voiced one of the characters in the animated film "Ferdinand", where the main character becomes a good-natured flower-adoring bull, who will participate in the Madrid bullfight. In the animated film Guiding Star, the hero Zach speaks in the voice of Anthony Anderson. This is a story about Bo, a donkey wanderer who stubbornly follows a Christmas star.