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Leon

Highest Rated: 85% The Flamingo Kid (1984)

Lowest Rated: 0% Band of the Hand (1986)

Birthday: Mar 8, 1962

Birthplace: Bronx, New York, USA

A charismatic African-American actor of TV and film, Leon was billed as Leon Robinson when he made his professional debut on the "CBS Afternoon Playhouse" production "Journey to Survival" in 1981. He became a part of popular music history when he was cast as the martyred Southern black saint in Madonna's controversial 1989 music video "Like a Prayer." Leon first made an impression on movie audiences as the exuberant captain of the Jamaican bobsled team in "Cool Runnings" (1993).

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85% 55% The Flamingo Kid
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76% 81% Cool Runnings
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73% 72% Buffalo Soldiers
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71% 85% Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored
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61% 39% All the Right Moves
Watchlist 56% 79% Waiting to Exhale Watchlist
50% 82% Above the Rim
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39% 95% The Five Heartbeats
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17% 70% Get Rich or Die Tryin'
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Leon Leon Robinson at arrivals for THE DEFIANT ONES Premiere on HBO, Time Warner Center, New York, NY June 27, 2017. Photo By: Eli Winston/Everett Collection ALL THE RIGHT MOVES, (l-r): Paige Price, Christopher Penn, Lea Thompson, Tom Cruise, Leon Robinson, Debra Varnardo, Paul Carafotes, 1983, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. ALL THE RIGHT MOVES, Tom Cruise, Leon Robinson, 1983, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. BAND OF THE HAND, Stephen Lang, Danny Quinn, Leon Robinson, 1986. ©TriStar Pictures BAND OF THE HAND, from left: Danny Quinn, Al Shannon, John Cameron Mitchell, Leon Robinson, Michael Carmine, 1986. ©TriStar Pictures ALL THE RIGHT MOVES, Tom Cruise, Christopher Penn, Leon Robinson, 1983, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. ONCE UPON A TIME...WHEN WE WERE COLORED, Leon (l.), 1995, (c)BET Pictures BAND OF THE HAND, Danny Quinn, Al Shannon, John Cameron Mitchell, Leon Robinson, Michael Carmine, 1986. ©TriStar Pictures ALL THE RIGHT MOVES, Christopher Penn (far left), Tom Cruise (center), Leon Robinson (second right from center), Paul Carafotes (far right), 1983, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. View more photos

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