Biography

Keith Allen West is a dynamic, complex and authentic actor like Matt Bomer, but with the quick-witted humor and timing of Melissa McCarthy. West is a Best Actor Award winner on the festival circuit known for being highly directable, making bold character choices and being loved on set.

West has worked with multiple actors and directors from Academy Award winning films including Kody Smit-McPee (The Power of the Dog and Elvis), Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant), Basil Hoffman (Ordinary People and All the President's Men), Kiowa Gordon (Dark Winds and Twilight) and Ernest Dickerson (Do the Right Thing).

West starred in the feature film Stronghold alongside Bianca A. Santos (Legacies, Grey's Anatomy, The DUFF, Ouija, Priceless) Jaq Fleming (River Runs Red, Queen of the South, Zoo) and Oliver Rayon (Studio City Kings, The Chosen, General Hospital). The thriller is set in a post-apocalyptic world, the film tracks a mother and daughter's struggle to survive, when the arrival of strangers threaten to shatter the simple life they've built for themselves.

His career also includes Paramount+ Interrogation, Half Brothers (he also made it onto the movie poster), BRAVO's Untying the Knot, HGTV's You Live In What, Hell or High Water, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Longmire, Midnight Texas and many more. He's featured in People Magazine, USA Today, VOGUE, Huffington Post, The Guardian, LA Times, NY Times, FOX, CNN, NPR and many more media outlets. His small business reality series THE STARTUP reached 24 million subscribers.

West enjoys working with and mentoring students from the Savannah College of Art and Design and other of the nation's top film schools.
- IMDb mini biography by: Marc Alexander