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Full Name:	Larenz Tate
Famous As:	Actor
Date of Birth:	September 08, 1975
Place of Birth:	Chicago, Illinois, USA
Height:	5' 7?
Nationality:	American

• Rescue Me- Tommy's Predicaments

  MassLive - Found Jun. 25, 2009 These characters put on quite a show for Katie. Colleen (Natalie Distler) and Shawn (Larenz Tate) pretend to be a happy couple.

• Rescue Me Star: Colleen's a "Whore in the Home"

  Seattle Post Intelligencer - Found Jun. 23, 2009 14 'It's not easy dealing with a Gavin!' Rescue Me star Larenz Tate tells TVGuide.com. Truer words were never spoken. Tate's alter ego, Black... Rescue Me: What's Next for Shawn and Colleen? - TV Guide Online Explore All

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• TV Movies for the week of June 14

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Found Jun. 14, 2009 (R) (2:00) TBS: Mon. 2:30 A.M. (CC) ? Dead Presidents '95. Larenz Tate.

• The Postman Brings the Future to Blu-ray on September 8th

  MovieWeb - Found May. 13, 2009 The film stars Kevin Costner, who also directed, along with Larenz Tate, Giovanni Ribisi and Shawn Hatosy. Costner plans period TV series - Sowetan Kevin Costner to return to the Western - Metro.co.uk Kevin Costner Coming to TV - MSN Entertainment Kevin Costner Producing TV Series - MaleFirst Mens Magazine Explore All

• Menace II Society Brings the Urban Drama to DVD and Blu-ray on ...

  MovieWeb - Found Jun. 4, 2009 ... priced at $14.96 SRP, while the BD will be priced at $28.99 SRP. The film stars Anthony Johnson, Larenz Tate, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Samuel L...

• 'Rescue Me' is very un-P.C.

  Deseret Morning News - Found Jun. 9, 2009 ... over the past couple of seasons, nothing has made that more evident than the African-American character played by Larenz Tate ? Black Shawn.

• Flyers to face Bandits in 'Battle of the Sexes' game

  Chicago Daily Herald - Found May. 15, 2009 Against the Sky, the E League roster includes two Chicago natives, Michael Clark Duncan ('The Green Mile') and Larenz Tate ('Crash'). Flyers Accept Chicago Bandits' Challenge - OurSports Central Explore All

• TV Movies for the week of May 31 (05/31/2009)

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Found Jun. 1, 2009 (R) (1:35) SHO: Mon. 11 P.M. ? Dead Presidents '95. Larenz Tate.

• Office star Mindy Kaling celebrates her 30th birthday at Lavo

  Examiner.com - Found May. 24, 2009 ... was actor Chazz Palminteri, New Orleans Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey and ?Rescue Me? costar Larenz Tate, who was spotted dining on...

• Frankie Muniz, Nelly in Hammond for Casino event

  NWI Times - Found May. 24, 2009 Whisperer')* TV star Jay Harrington ('Better off Ted')* TV host Joel McHale ('Talk Soup')* Actor Larenz Tate ('Crash,' 'Rescue Me')* Actor...

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Larenz Tate
Born	September 8, 1975 (1975-09-08) (age 33) Chicago, Illinois, USA
Years active	1985 - present
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Larenz Tate (born September 8, 1975) is an American film and television actor.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 2 References 3 External links

Biography

Early life

Tate was born on the west side of Chicago, the son of Peggy and Larry Tate.¹ He is the youngest of three siblings (his two brothers, Larron and Lahmard, are also actors) whose family moved to California when he was nine years old. Convinced by their parents to enter a drama program at the Inner City Cultural Center, the trio didn't take the lessons seriously until classmate Malcolm-Jamal Warner's ascent to fame after being cast on the sitcom The Cosby Show. Subsequently realizing that they could parlay their efforts into a tangible form of success, the siblings began to receive small roles and in 1985, Tate made his small-screen debut in an episode of The New Twilight Zone series.

Career

Following appearances in such television series as 21 Jump Street and The Wonder Years, Tate was cast in the television movie The Women of Brewster Place before receiving a recurring role in the family comedy series Family Matters (1989). He was also a cast member on the CBS series The Royal Family, starring Redd Foxx and Della Reese, which ended prematurely when Redd Foxx suddenly died. In the video game 187 Ride or Die, Tate voices the main character, Buck.

Following numerous small-screen roles, offers began pouring in for Tate, and in late 1992, collaborative filmmaking siblings Albert and Allen Hughes approached him to star in their debut feature Menace II Society. A jarring vision of inner-city desperation and decay, the film found Tate channeling his substantial energy into creating "O-Dog", a trigger-happy teenager. Following up with the little-seen but often-praised television series South Central, Tate would later appear in the family comedy-drama The Inkwell (1994) before re-teaming with the Hughes brothers for Dead Presidents (1995) and taking on the role of a love-stricken young poet in the romantic drama Love Jones (1997).

There followed roles in The Postman (as the automotively monikered Ford Lincoln Mercury), the Frankie Lymon biopic Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998, with Tate as Lymon), and 2000's Love Come Down. Though a big theatrical release had eluded Tate for the first few years of the millennial turnover, Tate would soon turn up opposite Laurence Fishburne in the high-octane but critically derided Biker Boyz (2003) ² A Man Apart (2003), Crash (2004), and as music legend Quincy Jones in Ray (2004), And "Waist Deep"(2006). Larenz was also featured in R&B singer Ashanti's 2003 released music video Rain on Me, where he played the jealous, abusive spouse of Ashanti. The video touched on the subject of domestic abuse. He currently can be seen in the latest season of FX Network's Rescue Me.

References

External links

• Official website
• Larenz Tate at the Internet Movie Database