Bokeem Woodbine

Bokeem Woodbine
Woodbine in 2011.
Born	(1973-04-13) April 13, 1973 (age 43) Harlem, New York, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1993–present

Bokeem Woodbine (born April 13, 1973) is an American actor. He is mostly known for his role as Mike Milligan on the second season of Fargo. He will portray Herman Schultz/Shocker in Spider-Man: Homecoming. For his performance in Fargo, he won a Black Reel Award, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award.

Bokeem Woodbine was born in Harlem, New York, on April 13, 1973. Woodbine attended the prestigious Dalton School on Manhattan's Upper East Side before transferring to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in the city.

With the encouragement of his actress mother, Woodbine entered show biz at age 19 as a stand-in and extra in Ernest Dickerson's directorial debut, the hip-hop classic Juice (1992), starring Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps. In the following year, he made his TV acting debut in the CBS Schoolbreak Special entitled "Love Off Limits." His appearance was noticed by casting director Jaki Brown-Karman who later recommended him to Forest Whitaker for the latter's directorial effort, the HBO television movie Strapped (1993). Since then, he has worked with other major African American filmmakers such as Spike Lee, Mario Van Peebles and the Hughes Brothers in the films Crooklyn (1994), Panther (1995) and Dead Presidents (1995), respectively.