- Born
- Birth nameLakeith Lee Stanfield
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- LaKeith Lee Stanfield is an actor and rapper from Victorville, California. At the age of fifteen, LaKeith began attending the John Casablancas Modeling & Career Center in Orange County. A few years later, he auditioned for Destin Cretton's then college thesis film Short Term 12 (2008). Later, the newer version of Short Term 12 (2013) marked LaKeith's debut as a professional actor. Subsequently, he landed a role in the Martin Luther King biopic, Selma (2014), and has since starred in Get Out (2017), Knives Out (2019), The Photograph (2020), and the series Atlanta on FX.
- IMDb mini biography by: Sam Smith
- SpouseKasmere Trice(2023 - present) (1 child)
- ParentsGary Stanfield
- As of 2021, he has been in 3 films that were Oscar nominated for Best Picture: Selma (2014), Get Out (2017) and Judas and the Black Messiah (2021).
- Got his first agent by doing a surfer skit.
- He has said that he would very much like to play the DC Comics villain and Batman's arch enemy the Joker.
- Son of Karen Garrett.
- I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.
- I'm from Victorville - it's about an hour-and-a-half away from Los Angeles, up in the desert. They call it Victimville because it's kind of violent. It's a beautiful place, though. It's quiet.
- I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.
- You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile.
- My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.
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