Age: 52
male
Michael Brown (born August 3, 1973), professionally known as Michael Ealy, was born on August 3, 1973 in Silver Spring, Maryland. He attended SpringbrookHigh School and the University of Maryland, College Park. Ealy started his acting career in the late-1990s, appearing in a number of off-Broadway stage productions. Among his first film roles were Bad Company and Kissing Jessica Stein. His breakout role came in 2002's Barbershop, in which he plays reformed street thug Ricky Nash, a role that he reprised in the 2004 sequel, Barbershop 2: Back in Business. In 2003, he played the role of Slap Jack in the second installment of the Fast and the Furious film series, 2 Fast 2 Furious. Later in 2004, Ealy appeared in Never Die Alone with DMX. In 2005, Ealy co-starred in the telefilm version of Their Eyes Were Watching God, produced by Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones, and starring Academy Award-winning actress HalleBerry. The same year, he starred in the independent film Jellysmoke, directed by Mark Banning. He starred in the Showtime television series Sleeper Cell and Sleeper Cell: American Terror. On December 14, 2006, Ealy was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in Sleeper Cell: American Terror in the category Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. In December 2008 he was featured in the movie Seven Pounds alongside Will Smith as Ben Thomas. He also starred as CIA Field Officer Marshall Vogel in the ABC television series FlashForward. In 2010 Ealy starred in the action-thriller Takers and in the drama For Colored Girls. Also in 2010, Ealy signed on to play an attorney, Derrick Bond in the TV series, The Good Wife.
Enduring a troubled childhood, Henry Shaw's only means of finding solace was through the horror films that would play on the television every night. In 1984 Chicago, Henry is a bright young man with a loving girlfriend, Jamie, and a fulfilling job as an article contributor for the most popular horror magazine in the country. Henry also enjoys engaging in debates with his friend, Donald Brooks, a prestigious film critic who doesn't share Henry's appreciation for the genre. Unbeknownst to Henry though, Donald's distraught by the news that his unbalanced former colleague, Leonard Massey, has just been released from an institution, where he was locked up after attempting to strangle a teenager in a movie theater in a fit of rage. Years ago, a prank from a group of delinquents went horribly wrong, causing Massey to get into a near-fatal car accident that left him mentally and physically scarred. With Massey's recent release, a series of grisly murders plagues the city, with all the victims being members of the horror community, and Henry fears that he may soon share their fate.
