American - Actor | August 12, 1991 -
We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced.
Lakeith Stanfield
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I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.
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I'm in this music duo called Moors.
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I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.
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I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.
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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.
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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.
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Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.
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When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.
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I wanted to be as genuine as possible because all those people like Jimmie Lee Jackson - me, Mike Brown, all these people - we're all the same; we're not much different.
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I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.
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When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot.
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