Biography
As a dynamic performer with incredible screen presence, actor Anthony Anderson made his career easily oscillating between comedies and dramas on both television and in feature films. Though he started out providing comic relief in a number of films early in his career, including "Life" (1999) and "Big Momma's House" (2000), Anderson quickly made his presence known as a powerful dramatic force with guest starring roles on gritty cop dramas like …
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Career Milestones
1975 | Landed first professonal job with a role in a TV commercial at age five |
1995 | Had early TV credit on an episode of the NBC sitcom "In the House" |
1996 | Made cameo appearance in the Showtime thriller "Alien Avengers," an installment of the "Roger Corman Presents" series |
1997 | Made TV series regular debut on the Saturday morning NBC teen comedy "Hang Time" |
1998 | Appeared on an episode of "NYPD Blue" (ABC) |
1999 | Acted in Barry Levinson's "Liberty Heights," a portrait of racial and religious tension in 1950s Baltimore |
1999 | Featured in the 1930s-set prison comedy "Life," starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence |
2000 | Cast as a bodyguard in the Andrzej Bartkowiak actioner "Romeo Must Die" |
2000 | Had a two-episode recurring role on Fox's "Ally McBeal" |
2000 | Played a film student haunted by a mysterious killer in "Urban Legends: Final Cut" |
2000 | Played one of Jim Carrey's sons in the Farrelly Brothers' comedy "Me, Myself & Irene" |
2000 | Re-teamed with Lawrence for "Big Momma's House" |
2001 | Acted as the confidant colleague of David Arquette's postal worker in the comedy "See Spot Run" |
2001 | Co-starred in the comedy "Two Can Play That Game" |
2001 | Played Jada Pinkett Smith's bumbling husband and son of Whoopi Goldberg in "Kingdom Come" |
2001 | Re-teamed with Bartkowiak, providing comic relief as DMX's sidekick, in "Exit Wounds" |
2002 | Acted opposite Jerry O'Connell as a pair of New Yorkers on the lam in the Australian Outback in "Kangaroo Jack" |
2003 | Played the lead character on The WB comedy series "All About the Andersons" |
2003 | Re-teamed with Bartkowiak and DMX for "Cradle 2 the Grave" |
2004 | Co-stared with Frankie Muniz in "Agent Cody Banks 2" |
2005 | Cast as the ruthless Los Angeles gang lord Antwon Mitchell on FX's police drama "The Shield" |
2005 | Starred in Craig Brewer's "Hustle & Flow" opposite Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson |
2005 | Starred opposite Donald Faison in "King's Ransom" |
2006 | Cast in Martin Scorsese's mob drama "The Departed" |
2008 | Joined the cast of the long-running NBC crime drama "Law & Order"; series cancelled after 20 years on the air |
2009 | Directed a one-minute short film featuring his "Law & Order" co-star Jeremy Sisto; aired during the "Law & Order" episode "Reality Bites" |
2011 | Acted in Wes Craven's "Scream 4" |
2011 | Cast in the comedy feature "The Big Year" opposite Owen Wilson, Jack Black, and Steve Martin |
Awards
2006 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in Hustle & Flow |
2007 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in The Departed |