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Ice-T

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  • Composer
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Ice-T
Delves into the inspiring origin story of one of Hip Hop's biggest stars as collaborators, friends, family, and the artists themselves take viewers to where their stories began and trace their path to success.
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The legendary gangsta hip-hop emcee Ice-T was born Tracy Marrow on February 16, 1958, in Newark, New Jersey. He moved to Los Angeles, California, to live with his paternal aunt after the death of his father while he was in the sixth grade; his mother had died earlier when he was in the third grade. His aunt lived in the South Los Angeles district of Crenshaw, colloquially referred to as South Central. He became immersed in the street life of the inner-city and eventually became a member of the West Side Rollin 30s Original Harlem Crips.

In 1979, Marrow joined the Army after leaving Crenshaw High School, but his 4-year hitch was enough for him, as he was a leader, not a follower. "I didn't like total submission to a leader other than myself," he said. After ETSing from the Army in 1983, he returned to South Central with the intention of becoming a hip-hop musician. More than music, his life got caught up in street life as as a jewel thief and as a pimp. (His nomme de guerre, Ice T, is an homage to the fabled pimp and raconteur Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck). He committed himself totally to his music after a 1985 car crash.

As a musician, Ice-T played a major role in the creation of the gangsta incarnation of hip-hop music and was a colossus of the West Coast hip-hop scene, despite his East Coast, greater New York, origins. Though his music displays a political consciousness, like the indictments of racism that were a hallmark of seminal hip-hop group Public Enemy, it also is nihilistic as befits a chronicler of street life. His most infamous song, the heavy metal "Cop Killer," was one of the major battle in the cultural wars of the 1990s, in which cultural conservatives enlisted the Moses of the right wing, Charlton Heston, to get Ice-T dropped from his then-label, Sire/Warner Bros.

The charismatic Ice-T has also achieved success as an actor in movies and on TV. He plays Detective Odafin Tutuola on the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), which is ironic for someone famous for "Cop Killer" and his feud with the L.A.P.D. Ice-T currently resides in North Bergen, New Jersey, with his wife, Coco Austin.
BornFebruary 16, 1958
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BornFebruary 16, 1958
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  • Awards
    • 5 wins & 14 nominations

Photos309

Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, and Ice-T in Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, and Ice-T in Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Ice-T and Steve Austin in Straight Up Steve Austin (2019)
Ice-T, Peter Scanavino, and Ras Enoch McCurdie in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Ice-T and Lou Martini Jr. in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Ice-T, Kelli Giddish, and Madeleine Yen in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Ice-T, Kelli Giddish, and Ebonee Noel in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Ice-T and Madeleine Yen in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Ice-T and Caitlin McHugh in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Ice-T, Richard Belzer, Suzanne DiDonna, and Jess LeProtto in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Ice-T, Christopher Meloni, and Peter Gray Lewis in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Ice-T, Mariska Hargitay, and Dann Florek in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)

Known for

Judd Nelson, Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, and Mario Van Peebles in New Jack City (1991)
New Jack City
6.6
  • Scotty Appleton(as Ice T)
  • 1991
Rutger Hauer, F. Murray Abraham, Gary Busey, Charles S. Dutton, Ice-T, John C. McGinley, and William McNamara in Surviving the Game (1994)
Surviving the Game
6.2
  • Jack Mason
  • 1994
Lori Petty in Tank Girl (1995)
Tank Girl
5.3
  • T-Saint
  • 1995
Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Johnny Mnemonic
5.6
  • J-Bone
  • 1995

Credits

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Actor

  • Avenging Justice
    • The Everloving Bush (voice)
    • Post-production
    • TV Series
    • 2023
  • Death for Hire: The Origin of Tehk City
    • (voice)
    • Pre-production
  • 3 Days Rising
    • Spotswood
    • Post-production
  • Christopher Meloni in Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021)
    Law & Order: Organized Crime
    • Sergeant Odafin Tutuola
    • Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola (as Ice T)
    • TV Series
    • 2021–2023
  • Mariska Hargitay in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
    • Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
    • Sergeant Odafin Tutuola
    • Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
    • TV Series
    • 2000–2023
  • Saturday Night Live (1975)
    Saturday Night Live
    • Light Skin Larry Targaryen
    • Fin Tutuola (uncredited)
    • TV Series
    • 2019–2022
  • Megadeth Feat. Ice-T: Night Stalkers (Chapter II)
    • Ice-T
    • Music Video
    • 2022
  • Body Count: The Hate Is Real (Version 2)
    • Ice-T (voice)
    • Music Video
    • 2021
  • Body Count: Thee Critical Beatdown
    • Ice-T (voice)
    • Music Video
    • 2020
  • Brian Evans in Brian Evans: It's A Beautiful Game (2020)
    Brian Evans: It's A Beautiful Game
    • Ice-T (voice)
    • Music Video
    • 2020
  • Body Count Feat. Riley Gale: Point the Finger
    • Ice-T
    • Music Video
    • 2020
  • Equal Standard (2020)
    Equal Standard
    • Croft
    • 2020
  • Body Count: Bum-Rush
    • Ice-T
    • Music Video
    • 2020
  • Borderlands 3 (2019)
    Borderlands 3
    • Balex (voice, as Ice T)
    • Video Game
    • 2019
  • Gabriel Iglesias, Wanda Sykes, Leehom Wang, Kelly Clarkson, Blake Shelton, Janelle Monáe, Pitbull, and Nick Jonas in UglyDolls (2019)
    UglyDolls
    • Peggy (voice)
    • 2019
  • Ice-T, Trace Adkins, David Cross, Vince Lozano, Jessica Makinson, Karl T. Wright, Tamir Yardenne, Agnes Albright, Natasha Leggero, Mo Mandel, Frank Drank, Amy Argyle, Thelma Gudmunds, Amir Abdalla, and Matt Johnson in Golden Revenge (2018)
    Golden Revenge
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Clinton Road (2019)
    Clinton Road
    • R.J.
    • 2019
  • Liam James, Benedict Wong, María Gabriela de Faría, Benjamin Wadsworth, Lana Condor, and Luke Tennie in Deadly Class (2018)
    Deadly Class
    • Ice-T Slot Machine (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2019

Producer

  • 3 Days Rising
    • producer
    • Post-production
  • In Ice Cold Blood (2018)
    In Ice Cold Blood
    • executive producer
    • TV Series
    • 2018–2021
  • Ice-T in The Mediator (2021)
    The Mediator
    • executive producer
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Framed by the Killer (2021)
    Framed by the Killer
    • executive producer
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Equal Standard (2020)
    Equal Standard
    • executive producer
    • 2020
  • Ice-T, Robert Rippberger, and Chris Chiari in Public Enemy Number One (2019)
    Public Enemy Number One
    • executive producer
    • 2019
  • Michael Eric Dyson, Claudia Jordan, and Dan Ratner in The Raw Word (2017)
    The Raw Word
    • executive producer
    • TV Series
    • 2018
  • Legacy (2015)
    Legacy
    • co-producer
    • Short
    • 2015
  • Ice & Coco (2015)
    Ice & Coco
    • executive producer
    • TV Series
    • 2015
  • Ice-T, Vanessa Williams, La'Myia Good, and Caryn Ward in Crossed the Line (2014)
    Crossed the Line
    • executive producer
    • 2014
  • Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp (2012)
    Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
    • executive producer
    • 2012
  • Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (2012)
    Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
    • executive producer
    • 2012
  • Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation (2011)
    Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation
    • executive producer
    • TV Movie
    • 2011
  • Ice Loves Coco (2011)
    Ice Loves Coco
    • executive producer
    • TV Series
    • 2011
  • The Peacemaker (2010)
    The Peacemaker
    • executive producer
    • TV Series
    • 2010
  • 25 to Life: Ice T Presents
    • executive producer
    • 2008

Composer

  • The Magic 7 (2009)
    The Magic 7
    • Composer
    • TV Movie
    • 2009
  • Ice-T: I'm So Fly
    • Composer
    • Music Video
    • 2007
  • Ice-T: Walking in the Rain
    • Composer
    • Music Video
    • 2006
  • Pimpin' 101
    • Composer
    • Video
    • 2002
  • The Wrecking Crew (2000)
    The Wrecking Crew
    • Composer
    • 2000
  • Ice-T: Always Wanted to Be A Ho
    • Composer
    • Music Video
    • 1999
  • Corrupt (1999)
    Corrupt
    • Composer
    • 1999
  • Urban Menace (1999)
    Urban Menace
    • Composer
    • Video
    • 1999
  • Angels Don't Know
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 1997
  • Ice-T: I Must Stand
    • Composer
    • Music Video
    • 1996
  • Ice-T: That's How I'm Livin'
    • Composer
    • Music Video
    • 1993
  • Ice-T: Gotta Lotta Love
    • Composer
    • Music Video
    • 1993
  • Ice T: G Style
    • Composer
    • Music Video
    • 1993
  • Ice T: I Ain't New Ta This
    • Composer
    • Music Video
    • 1993
  • Ice T & Ice Cube: Trespass (1992)
    Ice T & Ice Cube: Trespass
    • Composer
    • Music Video
    • 1992

Videos261

Clinton Road
Clip 0:44
Clinton Road
Tank Girl: Tank Girl [Collectors Edition]
Clip 2:23
Tank Girl: Tank Girl [Collectors Edition]
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 14
Clip 0:41
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 14
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
Clip 0:59
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
Clip 1:56
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
Official Trailer
Trailer 1:01
Official Trailer
Starting Tonight 8/7c
Trailer 0:31
Starting Tonight 8/7c
Theatrical Version
Trailer 3:49
Theatrical Version
GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and HoÂ’s Please Stand Up?
Trailer 1:55
GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and HoÂ’s Please Stand Up?
Equal Standard
Trailer 1:54
Equal Standard
Borderlands 3
Trailer 2:10
Borderlands 3
Trespass
Trailer 2:01
Trespass

Personal details

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  • Official sites
    • Cameo
    • Facebook Fan Page
  • Alternative names
    • Black Ice
  • Height
    • 5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
  • Born
    • February 16, 1958
    • Newark, New Jersey, USA
  • Spouse
    • Coco AustinDecember 31, 2005 - present (1 child)
  • Children
      Letesha Marrow
  • Other works
    Hosts the British program "Ice-T's Baadasss TV Show," in which he discusses blaxploitation movies as well as black culture.
  • Publicity listings
    • 2 Print Biographies
    • 2 Interviews
    • 8 Articles
    • 3 Pictorials
    • 3 Magazine Cover Photos

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Chose his pseudonym in honor of author Iceberg Slim (pen name of Robert Maupin Beck, 1918-1992; a.k.a., Robert Beck), an ex-pimp turned author whose heavy-hitting novels detailed the hard life of the criminal underworld.
  • Quotes
    [on the controversy created by "Cop Killer"] When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you KNOW the s--t has hit the fan!"
  • Trademarks
      Often reflects himself in his songs
  • Nicknames
    • Ice-T
    • Crazy Tray
  • Salary
    • Tank Girl
      (1995)
      $1,000,000

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