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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
With his distinctive look -- over six feet and 300 pounds, with thick, black-rimmed glasses, a full beard and a hairstyle untamed by the Afro-Pick he habitually kept stuck in it -- Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson became one of the most immediately recognizable figures in hip-hop, working as the drummer and musical director of The Roots. When The Roots became the house band on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," Questlove found a new audience for his cool yet cerebral style, which only expanded when Fallon and The Roots took over "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" (NBC 2014- ).
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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) | Director | - | 2025 |
| 96% |
|
The League | Executive Producer | $69.2K | 2023 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes | Self | - | 2023 |
| 100% |
|
Descendant | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hargrove | Self | - | 2022 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | The Reverend | Self | - | 2021 |
| 99% |
|
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) |
Director, Executive Producer |
$2.3M | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days | Unknown (Character) | - | 2021 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Ricky Powell: The Individualist | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
| 95% |
|
Soul | Curley (Voice) | $870.6K | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stucco | Original Music | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Finding Joseph I | Unknown (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 47% |
|
Vincent N Roxxy | Original Music | - | 2016 |
| 94% |
|
All Things Must Pass | Self | $166.9K | 2015 |
| 85% |
|
Top Five | Original Music | $25.3M | 2014 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Finding the Funk | Narrator | - | 2013 |
| 94% |
|
A Band Called Death | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 92% |
|
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | Unknown (Voice) | $264.3K | 2011 |
| 56% | No Score Yet | Am I Black Enough for You? | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 54% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2023-2024 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2016 2018-2019 2021-2024 |
| No Score Yet | 11% | The View | Guest | 2023-2024 |
| 71% | No Score Yet | Camden | Self | 2024 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | James Brown: Say It Loud | Executive Producer | 2024 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2019 2021-2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Kids Tonight Show | Guest | 2021 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | Sherman's Showcase | Guest | 2020 |
| 75% | No Score Yet | You Ain't Got These | Self | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Finding Your Roots | Guest | 2017 2020 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | AMC Visionaries: Rap Yearbook |
Unknown (Character), Executive Producer, Producer |
2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The $100,000 Pyramid | Guest | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | Drunk History | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Train With Wyatt Cenac | Unknown (Character) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Chew | Guest | 2012 2015-2016 |
| No Score Yet | 99% | Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown | Self | 2015 |
| 93% | 89% | Parks and Recreation | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Soup | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Top Chef | Judge | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Yo Gabba Gabba! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Music Performer | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | The Cleveland Show | Questlove (Guest Voice) | 2012 |