Michael Ealy
Biography
Michael Ealy is an American actor who began his career in the late 1990s in off-Broadway stage productions before moving into film. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, he studied English at the University of Maryland. First film roles included Bad Company, and his breakout came as reformed felon Ricky Nash in Barbershop (2002), a part he returned to in Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004). Other films on his resume include 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Seven Pounds (2008), Takers (2010), Think Like a Man (2012), About Last Night (2014), Think Like a Man Too (2014), The Perfect Guy (2015), The Intruder (2019), Jacob's Ladder (2019) and Fatale (2020). He earned a Golden Globe nomination for the Showtime series Sleeper Cell: American Terror and has appeared in television shows such as FlashForward, Being Mary Jane and Power Book II: Ghost.
53years old
Turns 54 on August 3in 294 days
- Born Silver Spring
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
- Also credited as Michael Brown and Michael David Brown
Movie Career
- Films
- 22
- Career span
- 20 years2002 to 2022
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Big break
Michael Ealy's breakout role came in 2002's Barbershop, where he played reformed felon Ricky Nash, a part he later reprised in the 2004 sequel Barbershop 2: Back in Business.
Michael Ealy movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Underworld: Awakening2012 Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fias Detective Sebastian
IMDb rating 6.3169K votes
Most often with
Tim Story directed three of these films, Deon Taylor two and David M. Rosenthal two. Six actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by Tim Story
Deon TaylorDirector, 2 films, 2019 to 2020
All films by Deon Taylor
David M. RosenthalDirector, 2 films, 2015 to 2019
All films by David M. Rosenthal
Box office
What Michael Ealy's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.4 billion
16 of the 22 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 22 films: 16 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 2 never in cinemas; 2 figure not found.
- 16Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 2Never in cinemas
- 2Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 75% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$236M17.4% of the total
- 2$168M12.4% of the total
- 3$160M11.8% of the total
- 4$134M9.9% of the total
- 5$96M7.1% of the total
- 6$80M5.9% of the total
- 7$77M5.7% of the total
- 8$70M5.2% of the total
$334 millionfrom the other 8 films with a worldwide figure, 25% of the total