Common

Known for ActingBorn 1972-03-13 (age 54)Chicago, Illinois, USA

Lonnie Rashid Lynn (born March 13, 1972), known by his stage name Common (formerly Common Sense), is an American rapper and actor. He has received three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow a Dollar?, and gained critical acclaim with his 1994 album Resurrection. He maintained an underground following into the late 1990s. He achieved mainstream success through his work with the Soulquarians. His first major-label album Like Water for Chocolate (2000), received commercial success. In 2003, he won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for the Erykah Badu single "Love of My Life". His 2005 album Be was also a commercial success and was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2006 Grammy Awards. Common received his second Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Southside" (featuring Kanye West), from his 2007 album Finding Forever. His best-of album, Thisisme Then: The Best of Common, was released in late 2007. In 2011, Common launched Think Common Entertainment, his own record label imprint, having previously released music under various other labels including Relativity, Geffen, and GOOD Music. Common won the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song, for his song, co-written and performed with John Legend, "Glory" from the 2014 film Selma, in which he co-starred as Civil Rights Movement leader James Bevel. Common's acting career also includes roles in the films Smokin' Aces, Street Kings, American Gangster, Wanted, Terminator Salvation, Date Night, Just Wright, Happy Feet Two, New Year's Eve, Run All Night, Being Charlie, Rex, John Wick: Chapter 2, Smallfoot and Hunter Killer. He also narrated the documentary Bouncing Cats, about one man's efforts to improve the lives of children in Uganda through hip-hop/b-boy culture. He starred as Elam Ferguson on the AMC western television series Hell on Wheels. Description above from the Wikipedia article Common (rapper), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Bottomless Brunch at Colman's

Brave New Voices 2010

5 Sides of a Coin

W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause

A GRAMMY Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop

BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration

The Notorious B.I.G BET Official presents

Chamber Check: Evolution of a Fight Scene

Silo

Never Have I Ever

The Hate U Give

Scrubs

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives

Chappelle's Show

Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince

The Chi

Soundz of Spirit

Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out

MTV Movie & TV Awards

The Simpsons

One on One

An American Girl Story - Melody 1963: Love Has to Win

The Price of Protest

Hell on Wheels

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

American Gangster

Unity

Wick Is Pain

MTV Video Music Awards

Godfathers and Sons

Selma

John Wick: Chapter 2

Now You See Me

Megan Leavey

Chasing Trane

Keeping Up with the Kardashians

Marshall

Two Trains Runnin'

jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy

Girlfriends

One World: Together at Home

The Tale

Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

The Wiz Live!