Leon

ActorProducerProduction Mar 8 (age 64) New York City, New York, USA 1983–2024 (41 year career)

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Biography

Leon Preston Robinson IV (usually credited as simply "Leon") is an American actor and singer, who began his professional career as an actor in 1981.

Known For

Film

Cool Runnings

Derice Bannock

Film

Cliffhanger

Kynette

Film

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Slim

Film

Colors

Killer-Bee

Film

Above the Rim

Shep

Film

Buffalo Soldiers

Stoney

Film

Madonna: The Immaculate Collection

Innocent Man / Saint (segment "Like a Prayer")

Film

All the Right Moves

Shadow

Filmography

Acting (64)

Movies (51)

The Rhythm and the Blues

2024

as Eddie Taylor Sr.

First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story

as Emerson

A Day to Die

as Tyron Pettis

Madonna: Madame X

as Innocent Man/Saint (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.5

The Glorias

2020

as Frank

6.4

Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas

as Jasper

Her Only Choice

as Melvin

Where Children Play

as David McCain

I Really Hate My Ex

as Sean

Soul Ties

as Dale Sr.

The Cheaters Club

as James

as Dr. Koehm

And Then There Was You

2013

as Joshua Gilbert

5.6

From This Day Forward

as Deon

The Brooklyn Heist

as Ronald

Diary of a Single Mom

as Mike

Cover

as Ryan Chambers

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

as Slim

Friends and Lovers

as Tyrel

Buffalo Soldiers

as Stoney

Little Richard

as Little Richard

Friends & Lovers

as Manny

Bats

as Jimmy Sands

Mean Streak

as Altman Rogers

Mr. Rock n Roll: The Alan Freed Story

as Jackie Wilson

Side Streets

as Errol Boyce

B.A.P.S

as Leon

Runaway Car

as Officer Isaiah 'Beau' Beaufort

Spirit Lost

as John

The Price of Kissing

as Larry

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

as Uncle Melvin

Waiting to Exhale

as Russell

Above the Rim

as Shep

Cliffhanger

as Kynette

Cool Runnings

as Derice Bannock

Bad Attitude

as Eddie Johnson

The Five Heartbeats

1991

as J.T.

7.3

Madonna: The Immaculate Collection

1990

as Innocent Man / Saint (segment "Like a Prayer")

8.6

Flying Blind

1990

The Women of Brewster Place

1989

as Abshu

6.6

A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story

1989

as Michael Thomas

Colors

as Killer-Bee

The Lawless Land

as Roadkill

The Father Clements Story

Band of the Hand

as Moss

Streetwalkin'

as Jason

The Flamingo Kid

as Fortune Smith

Sole Survivor

as Gang Leader

All the Right Moves

as Shadow

Wildcards

Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story

as Self

Television (13)

Swarm

2023

as Harris

6.6

City on a Hill

2019

as Reverend Isaiah Hughes

The Chi

as Alonzo

40 and Single

as Dan Mayor

Recovery Road

as Alan

Hack

as Ulysses Sims

Crossing Jordan

as Vicellous Owens

The Temptations

as David Ruffin

as Jefferson Keane

Central Park West

The Women of Brewster Place

1989

as Abshu

5.0

L.A. Law

1986

as Ronald "Pinto" Sewell

7.1

Hunter

1984

as Iceman

7.1

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

The Price of Kissing

1997

Producer

3.0

Bad Attitude

1993

Associate Producer