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Acting

Morris Chestnut

Career: Active from 1991 to 2025, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 26
top three billing

Average score: 53/100

Highest rated: Boyz n the Hood
83/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 53 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Morris Chestnut Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Historical
0.6, average 2.6
Wonder
2.1, average 3.4
Melancholy
3.5, average 4.7
Fantasy
0.6, average 1.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Contemporary Setting 5
Character-Driven 4
Social Commentary 4
Ensemble Cast 3
Romantic Comedy 3
Coming-of-Age Story 2
Action-Packed 2
Character-Driven Narrative 2
Relationship Drama 2
Gritty Realism 2
Psychological Thriller 2
Urban Crime 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

59

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

Unsung Hollywood

TV show

2020s

6 titles · average score 62

Watson

51

TV show · as Dr. John Watson

Diarra from Detroit

79

TV show · as Swa

The Best Man: The Final Chapters

74

TV show · as Lance Sullivan

Reasonable Doubt

70

TV show · as Corey Cash

Our Kind of People

51

TV show · as Raymond Dupont

Spell

50

Producer

2010s

17 titles · average score 56

The Enemy Within

60

TV show · as Will Keaton

The Resident

65

TV show · as Barrett Cain

All American

68

TV show · as Rick Barnes

When the Bough Breaks

33

as John Taylor

Goliath

74

TV show · as Hakeem Rashad

Rosewood

44

TV show · as Beaumont Rosewood Jr.

The Perfect Guy

38

as Dave King

The Call

56

as Officer Paul Phillips

The Best Man Holiday

66

as Lance Sullivan

Identity Thief

40

as Detective Reilly

American Horror Story

72

TV show · as Luke

Takers

48

Executive Producer

2000s

21 titles · average score 51

60

TV show · as Ryan Nichols

Not Easily Broken

43

as Dave Johnson

The Game Plan

50

as Travis Sanders

The Perfect Holiday

32

as Benjamin Armstrong

The Cave

34

as Top Buchanan

Breakin' All the Rules

41

as Evan

Ladder 49

56

as Tommy Drake

Confidence

63

as Travis

Like Mike

54

as Tracey Reynolds

Half Past Dead

30

as Donald Robert Johnson

Two Can Play That Game

44

as Keith Fenton

The Brothers

55

as Jackson Smith

1990s

14 titles · average score 65

The Best Man

68

as Lance Sullivan

G.I. Jane

59

as McCool

C-16: FBI

TV show · as Mal Robinson

Firehouse

as Andre

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

48

as Bobby Zachs

79

TV show · as Frank 'Rambo' Bacon

The Inkwell

46

as Harold Lee

The Ernest Green Story

71

as Ernest Green

Living Single

74

TV show · as Hamilton Brown

77

TV show · as Jeff Carswell

In the Line of Duty: Street War

56

as Prince Franklin

Boyz n the Hood

83

as Ricky Baker