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Shawn Elliott

Highest Rated: 92% Short Eyes (1978)

Lowest Rated: 12% Double Take (2001)

Birthday: Feb 24, 1937

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Birthplace: Santurce, Puerto Rico

Shawn Elliott was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Elliott's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as the Bruce Davison dramatic adaptation "Short Eyes" (1978), the Rae Dawn Chong musical "Beat Street" (1984) and "Crossover Dreams" (1985). He also appeared in "Off Beat" (1986) with Judge Reinhold, the action movie "The Dead Pool" (1988) with Clint Eastwood and the dramatic comedy "Do the Right Thing" (1989) with Danny Aiello. He kept working in film throughout the eighties and the nineties, starring in the Theresa Russell thriller "Impulse" (1990), the Jake Dengel comedy "Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh" (1991) and "Caught" (1996). Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in the dramedy "The New Yorker" (1998) with Mathieu Demy, "Blue Moon" (2000) and the Orlando Jones crime drama "Double Take" (2001). He also appeared in the drama "Thirteen Conversations About One Thing" (2002) with Matthew McConaughey and "The Feast of the Goat" (2006) with Isabella Rossellini. Elliott's music was most recently featured in the black comedy "Dom Hemingway" (2014) with Jude Law.

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Highest rated movies

92% 84% Short Eyes
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88% 78% Hurricane
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83% 71% Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
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77% 70% Caught
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60% Crossover Dreams
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33% 18% Impulse
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20% 40% Blue Moon
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12% 50% Double Take
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30% Death in Small Doses
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38% Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
83% 71% Thirteen Conversations About One Thing Mickey Wheeler (Character) $3.3M 2001
12% 50% Double Take Thomas Chela/Minty Gutierrez (Character) $29.8M 2001
20% 40% Blue Moon The Ambassador (Character) $76.1K 2000
88% 78% Hurricane Paco (Character) $334.0K 1997
77% 70% Caught Santiago (Character) $361.1K 1996
No Score Yet 30% Death in Small Doses Det. Ortega (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 38% Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh Jackie Cairo (Character) - 1991
33% 18% Impulse Tony Peron (Character) $1.4M 1990
60% No Score Yet Crossover Dreams Orlando (Character) - 1985
92% 84% Short Eyes Paco (Character) - 1978

TV

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20% No Score Yet Hack Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
No Score Yet 65% CSI: Miami Unknown (Guest Star) 2002
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 1992 1994-1997 2000 2002
71% 89% Miami Vice Orrestes Pedrosa (Guest Star) 1985 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hunter Jake Barruzo (Guest Star) 1987