Asante Jones

Asante Jones is an actor from Cleveland, Ohio, who later moved to Los Angeles. Born in 1968, he graduated from John Marshall High School in 1986, and spent four years at Cleveland's Karamu House Theater, where he trained as an actor and a lighting technician. In November 1992, that technical skill took him on tour with Shelly Garrett Entertainment on Beauty Shop Part 2. He reached Los Angeles in September 1996, and after roughly ten months he went to Singapore with Disney as master electrician for DisneyFest Asia, then the largest tour in the world. Returning to Los Angeles in March 1998, he started gaining acting work in low budget films, playing starring and supporting roles, and guest-starred on television in Naval CIS, I'm With Her, Malcolm in the Middle and Diagnosis Murder. He also worked on selling his screenplay Undying Love and on a second screenplay.