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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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Highest rated movies

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

Filmography

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Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story Unknown (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet 86% A Day to Die Pettis (Character) - 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas Jasper (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sin Choice Doug Stephens (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Making The Five Heartbeats Unknown (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Her Only Choice Melvin (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 40% Where Children Play David McCain (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet 22% I Really Hate My Ex! Sean (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Against the Jab DJ Mike (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 40% 37: A Final Promise Dr. Koehme (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 24% And Then There Was You Joshua Gilbert (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet From This Day Forward Deon (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 89% 3 Ways to Get a Husband Devon (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet 50% Capers Unknown (Character) - 2008
0% 79% Cover Unknown (Character) $62.2K 2007
No Score Yet 93% Friends & Lovers Tyrel (Character) - 2005
17% 70% Get Rich or Die Tryin' Slim (Character) $31.0M 2005
73% 72% Buffalo Soldiers Stoney (Character) $353.7K 2001
No Score Yet 70% Little Richard Little Richard (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 44% Mr. Rock 'n' Roll: The Alan Freed Story Jackie Wilson (Character) - 1999
17% 14% Bats Jimmy Sands (Character) $10.1M 1999
7% 32% Friends & Lovers Manny (Character) $94.6K 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mean Streak Altman Rogers (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Side Streets Errol Boyce (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 96% The Temptations Unknown (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 42% The Price of Kissing Larry (Character),
Producer 		- 1997
No Score Yet 47% Spirit Lost John (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 38% Runaway Car Officer Isaiah "Beau" Beaufort (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 17% Pure Danger Felix (Character) - 1996
56% 79% Waiting to Exhale Russell (Character) $64.2M 1995
71% 85% Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored Uncle Melvin (Character) $65.1K 1995
50% 82% Above the Rim Shep (Character) $16.0M 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bad Attitude Eddie Johnson (Character) - 1993
68% 52% Cliffhanger Kynette (Character) $80.5M 1993
76% 81% Cool Runnings Derice Bannock (Character) $68.8M 1993
39% 95% The Five Heartbeats J.T. (Character) $7.3M 1991
No Score Yet 57% A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story Michael Thomas (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 60% The Lawless Land Road Kill (Character) - 1988
0% 59% Band of the Hand Moss (Character) $4.9M 1986
85% 55% The Flamingo Kid Fortune Smith (Character) - 1984
61% 39% All the Right Moves Shadow (Character) - 1983

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87% 74% Swarm Harris (Character) 2023
No Score Yet 81% Blue Bloods Cameron Gooding (Guest Star) 2019
No Score Yet 18% The Late Late Show With James Corden Music Performer 2016
20% No Score Yet Hack Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
93% 95% Oz Jefferson Keane / Tizi Ouzou (Guest Star) 1997 2003
43% No Score Yet C-16 Robert Robinson (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hunter Iceman / Earl Taylor (Guest Star) 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Houston Knights Unknown (Guest Star) 1987