Birth Name: LaKeith Lee Stanfield
Nickname/Stage Name: LaKeith Stanfield
Birth Date: August 12, 1991
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Occupation(s): Actor, Musician
Years Active: 2008 till Present
Net Worth: $2 million
Latest Film: Judas and the Black Messiah
Personal Life
Born in California, LaKeith Stanfield grew up in Riverside and Victorville. He has been in a relationship with actress Xosha Roquemore since August 2015.
The two have a daughter (born in JUne 2017). The actor resides in Hollywood Hills.
Education
Stanfield attended the John Casablancas Modeling and Career Center in Los Angeles.
Career
He had his first role in the short film Short Term 12 (2009) and a year later, appeared in another shirt film Gimme Grace (2010). Afterwards, he gave up acting for a few years.
Stanfield was contacted to reappear in a feature-length adaptation of Short Term 12. It marked his first feature movie role in Hollywood.
During movie productions, he practiced method acting, making himself distant from the other cast members like his characters. In 2014, he co-starred in The Purge: Anarchy and Selma, playing civil rights activist Jimme Lee Jackson in the latter.
He portrayed rapper Snoop Dogg in 2015 in the biopic Straight Outta Compton and played L in the Netflix Japanese manga series Death Note.
That same year, he appeared in Jordan Peele’s critically-acclaimed thriller Get Out. In 2019, he played Lieutenant Elliot in the mystery film Knives Out.
Stanfield had starring roles in the films The Photograph (2020) and Judas and the Black Messiah (2021).
Awards
Chicago International Film Festival Award (2014)
24FPS International Short Film Festival Award (2015)
Hamptons International Film Festival Award (2015)
Quotes
“I’m a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I’m just so fortunate to do whatever I’m doing.”
“My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.”
“My biggest strength is I’m courageous, or if I am afraid of something, I do it anyway. I do what I feel. It’s nothing personal against anyone, so that courageousness has been very good to me.”
Trivia
Got his first agent by doing a surfer skit.
Has stated that he would like to play the DC Comics villain The Joker.
Has a daughter, born in 2017.
Movies
Short Term 12 (2008)
Selma (2014)
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Get Out (2017)
Time of Day (2018)
Knives Out (2019)
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)