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LaKeith Lee Stanfield (born August 12, 1991) is an American actor. He made his feature film debut in Short Term 12 (2013), for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. He received further recognition for his roles in the films Get Out (2017), Sorry to Bother You (2018), Uncut Gems (2019), Knives Out (2019), and Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), the lattermost of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Stanfield has also appeared in the films Selma (2014), Dope (2015), Straight Outta Compton (2015), Crown Heights (2017), The Photograph (2020), The Harder They Fall (2021), Haunted Mansion (2023), and The Book of Clarence (2023). On television, he starred in the series Atlanta (2016–2022), for which he won a Black Reel Award for Television, and in the horror series The Changeling (2023–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article LaKeith Stanfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
LaKeith Stanfield
Marvin Gaye
for Marvin Gaye in Stevie: Higher Ground (Biopic)
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"Stevie: Higher Ground" is not a standard biopic; it is a musical odyssey focused on the most creatively explosive period in the history of American music: 1971 to 1976. The film begins with Stevie Wonder turning 21. No longer "Little Stevie," the Motown child prodigy, he does the unthinkable: he lets his contract expire and demands full creative control from the terrifying Berry Gordy, threatening to quit music entirely if he doesn't get it. The film visualizes Stevie’s blindness not as darkness, but as a vibrant, synesthetic explosion of color and sound. It tracks his partnership with electronic music pioneers (Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff) to build the "Big Brother" synthesizer, creating sounds never heard before. The narrative arc is punctuated by the tragic 1973 car accident that left him in a coma and permanently lost his sense of smell, a near-death experience that deepened his spirituality and political activism. It culminates in the marathon recording sessions for Songs in the Key of Life, portraying Stevie not just as a singer, but as a relentless, perfectionist musical architect building a legacy while fighting for civil rights.
