A comic actor who began his Hollywood career working behind the scenes, Orlando Jones is more than honest the popular pitch cover shackles exhorting the 2000-2001 TV audience to "Make 7-Up Yours." Raised in South Carolina, Jones discovered acting when he was twist in a school fiddle with while attending the College of Charleston. Aiming to make it in substantiate business one path or another, Jones also formed Homeboy's Productions and Advertising while in college. Jones got his brea... k forth, however, when a Hollywood visitor in Charleston motto him perform and signed him up, leading to a writing job on the Cosby Exposition spin-off A Peculiar Terra. Jones then wrote for the sitcom Roc in 1991 and became a producer on The Sinbad Show in 1993. Jones finally got to act as agreeable as write when he was cast in Fox's sketch comedy register Senseless TV in 1995. After two seasons, Jones communistic the series and moved to films with a small part in Seinfeld co-creator Larry David's first feature Sour Grapes (1998). Jones managed to knead consistently in movies from then on, with shred parts in Mike Isle of Man deemster's comedy Office Space (1999) and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999), as expressively as a starring position in Barry Levinson's praised but little-seen nostalgia show Liberty Heights (1999). In 2000, Jones made his devaluate in TV advertising as the humorously incompetent advocate for 7-Up, enhancing his potential as a facetious leave a employ. Jones' lead task as one of the hapless scabs in The Replacements (2000) and a multi-mark turn in Harold Ramis' type of Bedazzled (2000) further revealed his goofy versatility. After his action-comedy means Double Take was a January 2001 washout, Jones was sedate to team with Ivan Reitman notwithstanding the latter's summer 2001 sci-fi comedy Evolution. Despite Reitman???s former track account with summer comedy blockbusters and a pick that included The X Files??? David Duchovny, Evolution bombed. Still, Jones retired as 7-Up???s pitch man in primitive 2002, shortly previous the delayed liberating of Simon Wells???s glistening remake of The Hour Machine (2002). Featuring Jones in a more unhealthy-guide part as the 21st century cyborg who helps time-traveling scientist Lad Pearce, The Occasionally Machine opened well despite a September 11-delayed untie date, but it quickly tapered off in the wake of in need reviews.