Posse 1993 premiere
by thatgalaredcarpeteventguy | created - 06 Oct 2020 | updated - 06 Oct 2020 | PublicMonday May 10th, Criterion Theatre 1514 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
1. Mario Van Peebles
Actor | How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass
Mario Van Peebles is a highly regarded director, actor, producer and writer. His directorial skills can be seen in the retelling of the epic mini-series "Roots" starring Forest Whitaker and Matthew Goode. Van Peebles has directed award-winning shows such as the recent hit "Empire" and "The Last ...
2. Chris Rock
Actor | Top Five
Christopher Julius Rock was born in Andrews, South Carolina and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of Rosalie (Tingman), a teacher and social worker for the mentally handicapped, and Julius Rock, a truck driver and newspaper deliveryman, whose own father was a preacher.
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3. Rosie Perez
Actress | White Men Can't Jump
Rosie Perez was born in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, to Lydia Perez and Ismael Serrano, a merchant marine. She is of Puerto Rican descent. Rosie attended Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood, Queens, New York, and later enrolled at Los Angeles City College in Los Angeles, California. ...
4. Blair Underwood
Actor | Deep Impact
A true multi-hyphenate, Blair Underwood is enjoying success in film, television and theatre, as an actor, director and producer. Underwood recently returned to Broadway starring opposite David Alan Grier in the Pulitzer Prize winning drama "A Solider's Play" for director Kenny Leon and the ...
5. Harry Belafonte
Actor | Bobby
Harold George Belafonte was born on March 1, 1927 in New York City. He was educated at the New York Dramatic Workshop. He grew up in Jamaica, British West Indies, and did folk-singing in nightclubs and theaters, and on television and records. His debut was at the Village Vanguard in New York. Also,...
6. David Belafonte
Actor | Timebomb
David Belafonte was born on September 30, 1957 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Timebomb (1991), The Christmas Pearl and The History of Everything Circa 1993: F/K/A Kissy Cousins Monster Babies (2018). He has been married to Malena Belafonte since 2000. They ...
7. Rob Pilatus
Actor | Das Erbe der Guldenburgs
Rob Pilatus was born on June 8, 1964 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das Erbe der Guldenburgs (1987), Rob & Fab: We Can Get It On (1992) and Milli Vanilli: Blame It on the Rain (1989). He died on April 2, 1998 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
8. Veronica Webb
Actress | Someone Like You...
The youngest of three daughters born to Doug, an electrician who died in 1993, and Marion, a nurse, Webb graduated in 1983 from Detroit's Waldorf School. Moving to New York City to study design the same year, Webb got her modeling start after a makeup artist saw her in a housewares boutique.
9. Christopher Martin
Actor | House Party
Christopher Martin was born on July 10, 1962 in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for House Party (1990), Class Act (1992) and House Party 3 (1994). He was previously married to Shari Headley.
10. Shari Headley
Actress | Coming to America
Shari Headley was born on July 15, 1964 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Coming to America (1988), Coming 2 America (2021) and Towelhead (2007). She was previously married to Christopher Martin.
11. Christopher Reid
Actor | House Party
Christopher Reid was born on April 5, 1964 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for House Party (1990), House Party 3 (1994) and Spec Ops: The Line (2012). He has been married to Kimberly Turner since June 19, 2004.
12. Warrington Hudlin
Producer | Cosmic Slop
Warrington Hudlin was born on July 16, 1952 in East Saint Louis, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Cosmic Slop (1994), Boomerang (1992) and House Party (1990).
13. Reginald Hudlin
Producer | Marshall
Reginald Hudlin was born on December 15, 1961 in Centerville, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Marshall (2017), House Party (1990) and Django Unchained (2012). He has been married to Chrisette Suter since November 30, 2002. They have two children.
14. Charles Lane
Actor | Sidewalk Stories
Charles Lane, with a host of awards and credits to his name, is a force to be reckoned with. Born in New York's South Bronx in 1953 and inspired by Hitchcock films, Lane knew early in his childhood what his true calling was. His passion for film transpired when while in junior high he made his ...
15. Tone Loc
Actor | Heat
Tone Loc was born on March 3, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Heat (1995), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) and Titan A.E. (2000).
16. Spike Lee
Director | Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher. He attended ...
17. Tonya Lewis Lee
Producer | Aftershock
Tonya Lewis Lee was born on March 15, 1966 in the USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Aftershock (2022), Mistress of Modernism and The Watsons Go to Birmingham (2013). She has been married to Spike Lee since October 2, 1993. They have two children.
18. Melvin Van Peebles
Actor | The Shining
Melvin Van Peebles was born on August 21, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Shining (1997), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) and Don't Play Us Cheap (1972). He was married to Maria Marx. He died on September 21, 2021 in Manhattan, New York City, New ...
19. Tammy Grimes
Actress | The Last Unicorn
Slim, pixie-like, two-time Tony Award winner Tammy Grimes who put on marvelously quirky Cowardesque airs and captivated audiences with her inimitably throaty, raspy voice was actually not British but born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1934, the daughter of Eola Willard (née Niles), a ...
20. Big Daddy Kane
Soundtrack | Colors
Antonio Hardy better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is an American rapper who began his career in 1986 as a member of the Juice Crew. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and skilled MCs in hip hop. Rolling Stone ranked his song "Ain't No Half-Steppin'" number 25 on its ...
21. Edward Furlong
Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Edward Walter Furlong was born in Glendale, California. His mother, Eleanor (Tafoya), is from a Mexican family, and worked at a youth center. Furlong had no acting ambitions until he was approached by casting agent Mali Finn, who was looking for a young actor to play the role of John Connor in what...
22. Desiree DaCosta
Desiree DaCosta is known for Another 48 Hrs. (1990), Boomerang (1992) and Harlem Nights (1989). She was previously married to Blair Underwood.
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