Dwayne L. Barnes

Dwayne L. Barnes

Nacimiento : 1970-11-26, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Historia

Dwayne Barnes was born and reared in Detroit, Michigan where he witnessed some of life's harsh realities, which has consequently affected and transformed him as an artist and human being. In his senior year in high school, Barnes, voted "Most Likely to Succeed," won a citywide acting competition and was awarded a scholarship to attend Eastern Michigan University. However, after a few years of collegiate life, Barnes heard the call of his destiny and chose to immediately set his sights on moving to Los Angeles and stardom. Not just an actor, Barnes is also blessed with vocal talent and just two years after moving to Los Angeles, his performance in Robert Townsend's, "The Five Heartbeats: The Musical," was nominated BEST ACTOR for an NAACP Theater Award. Barnes also starred in the musicals, "Letters from Nam", which was written and produced by Emmy award-winning director, Paris Barclay, and "Dorian," which The Denver Daily New said, Barnes "gave a knockout performance." Barnes' musical talents also led to a contract with Capitol Records, where he recorded an album with the group H20. The group disbanded before the album was released. Barnes has guest-starred in over 30 different episodic shows, including such hit shows as C.S.I., E.R., and Cold Case. Other network guest appearances include, "Without a Trace", "Angel", "Judging Amy", "Numbers", "The Shield" and "Six Feet Under." Following in the shoes of such greats as, Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry (Jungle Fever) and Chris Rock (New Jack City), Barnes' haunting portrayal of the cheeseburger loving crack addict in the urban classic Menace II Society has garnered him critical acclaim throughout Hollywood.

Perfil

Dwayne L. Barnes

Películas

El caso Wells
Vincent Dennison
El trabajo de Errol Babbage (Richard Gere) consiste en vigilar a los delincuentes acusados de delitos sexuales que han salido de la cárcel. Como se toma el trabajo demasiado en serio, sus jefes deciden jubilarlo. Allison, su sustituta, una joven de 27 años, tendrá que pasar unas semanas con él para que le enseñe el oficio. Un día, Harriet Wells, una chica de 17 años, desaparece sin dejar rastro, y Errol está seguro de que uno de sus "chicos" es el responsable. A pesar de que la policía no quiere que intervenga en el caso, Allison decidirá colaborar con él en la búsqueda del culpable. Durante la investigación, encontrarán toda clase de pistas, muchas de ellas falsas; además, deberán mezclarse con gente muy poco recomendable.
Parental Guidance
Rashaan
Sean (Casey Lee) is a young man trying to overcome the stigma of growing up in South Central Los Angeles in a wacky extended family of misfits and miscreants. Despite his reservations, Sean brings his college-educated girlfriend, Lissa (Maia Campbell), to the family's Christmas dinner where she encounters loveable eccentrics, offended cross-dressers, and drug-addled gang members. Hilarity ensues.
Bad Trip
In this off-the-wall road comedy, John (Ethan Suplee) and Sam (Kevin Connolly) are a pair of close friends who are in need of a vacation, so they hit the road from their hometown of Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, hoping to check out the action at Mardi Gras. Along the way, however, they manage to run over someone with their car; their victim, Tyrone (Coolio), is an escaped convict who dies shor
Angry Dogs
90s DTV action movie.
Infierno en Los Ángeles
Basehead
Caine, un joven afroamericano del barrio angelino de Watts, cuyo padre era traficante y su madre drogadicta, vive con sus abuelos maternos que intentan inculcarle los buenos valores que sus padres no pudieron darle. Pero sigue en el ghetto, lo cual hace que se junte con otros jóvenes, entre ellos una malísima influencia como lo es su mejor amigo, O-Dog. La violencia le rodea y tendrá que tomar una motivación existencial para poder escapar de ese "infierno", la chica que le gusta era la novia de su modelo paternal (condenado a cadena perpetua) y puede ser su chispa potenciadora para escapar y empezar de cero...