Name:
Date of Birth:
Laz Alonso
Laz Alonso played in 12 movies in the Crime, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Music, Thriller, Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi, Drama, Musical, Romance, War genres.
Laz Alonso didn't achieve real success and got average imdb rating 4.9.
Born to a first-generation Cuban immigrant couple and raised in the Washington, D.C. ground, Laz Alonso gravitated to acting interests at an early majority, but briefly forsook the arts in favor of a more applied and healthy-grounded training, studying house at nearby Howard University's marketing program. After graduation, Alonso left the Locality of Columbia and took off for the Big Apple, where he worked as an investment banker, but footlights and soundstages beckoned, and with the
... urging of friends, Alonso began auditioning for acting assignments and soon landed appearances in a string of commercials, then guest roles on series programs including CSI, The Exercise and Navy: NCIS, up front gracing the casts of theatrically-released features. Meanwhile, the youthful artiste - who had studied classical piano formally for nearly a decade - parlayed his melodic interests into reggaeton performances, and also active himself in a humongous way with altruism, launching a nonprofit group in return children of single-parent households.
Alonso's big-screen projects included the 2003 urban terror comedy Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood; the 2005 Constantine (with a role as a security safety in a morgue), and the 2005 Jarhead (as a soldier stationed in the Firth Clash). He worked for Roland Joffe (The Debilitating Fields) as a detective licentious on the trail of a serial killer, in that filmmaker's critically-despised torture porn spin Captivity (2007), then essayed a niggardly supporting turn in the same year's Dirty Rude Money on ABC. Also in 2007, Alonso played a frat young man at an African American college in Atlanta, in director Sylvain White's teen comedy-cum-cut a rug film Stomp the Yard. At nearby the very sometime, the infantile actor worked under the aegis of Spike Lee in that helmer's World II-date period drama Miracle at St. Anna (2008), and signed to conduct oneself in director James Cameron's hotly-anticipated, mega-budgeted discipline fiction epic Avatar (2009).Read more Less
