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Mekhi Phifer

Mekhi Phifer

Acting

December 29, 1974 (51 years old)
New York City, New York, USA
Male
52 Movies
30 TV Shows

Mekhi Thira Phifer (born December 29, 1974) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his multi-year role as Dr. Greg Pratt on NBC's long-running medical drama ER and his co-starring role opposite Eminem in the feature film 8 Mile. He was a regular on the Fox crime show Lie to Me portraying the role of Ben Reynolds, before season 3. He was born in in Harlem, New York City, the son of Rhoda Phifer, a high school teacher; he grew up in a single-parent household with his mother. His acting career began in 1995, when Phifer attended an open casting call for director Spike Lee’s Clockers, beating over a thousand others to get the lead role as a narcotics dealer embroiled in a murder cover-up. He followed that role with another in the comedy spoof feature High School High (which also starred his former wife Malinda Williams) and continued by co-starring in the fright flick I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze, Jr. Among Phifer’s other big-screen credits are Soul Food, The Biography of Spud Webb, Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, Tears of a Clown, O (as the titular character Odin a.k.a. O), and the thriller Uninvited Guest (as Silk). He appeared in Impostor as well as Paid in Full, 8 Mile, opposite Eminem and Dawn of the Dead. Phifer has a son, Omikaye, with his ex-wife, actress Malinda Williams. His second son, Mekhi Thira Phifer Jr., was born to his girlfriend Oni Souratha in Los Angeles on October 30, 2007.

8 Mile
8 Mile

8 Mile

2002 7.1

as Future

Age 27 (now 51)
ER
ER

ER

1994 7.8

as Greg Pratt

Age 19 (now 51)
133 eps
Honey
Honey

Honey

2003 6.3

as Chaz

Age 28 (now 51)
Lie to Me
Lie to Me

Lie to Me

2009 7.9

as Ben Reynolds

Age 34 (now 51)
24 eps
Dawn of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead

Dawn of the Dead

2004 7.1

as Andre

Age 29 (now 51)
O
O

O

2001 5.9

as Odin James

Age 26 (now 51)
Flypaper
Flypaper

Flypaper

2011 6.4

as Darrien

Age 36 (now 51)
Impostor
Impostor

Impostor

2001 6.1

as Cale

Age 26 (now 51)
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

1998 5.4

as Tyrell

Age 23 (now 51)
Divergent
Divergent

Divergent

2014 6.9

as Max

Age 39 (now 51)
Lights Out
Lights Out

Lights Out

2024 7.0

as Max Bomer

Age 49 (now 51)
The Silent Hour
The Silent Hour

The Silent Hour

2024 6.4

as Mason Lynch

Age 49 (now 51)
Paid in Full
Paid in Full

Paid in Full

2002 6.8

as Mitch

Age 27 (now 51)
Love, Victor
Love, Victor

Love, Victor

2020 8.6

as Harold Brooks

Age 45 (now 51)
9 eps
Insurgent
Insurgent

Insurgent

2015 6.4

as Max

Age 40 (now 51)
Clockers
Clockers

Clockers

1995 6.7

as Ronald 'Strike' Dunham

Age 20 (now 51)