December 2024

Morris Chestnut, a two-time NAACP award-winning actor and producer, has enjoyed tremendous critical and commercial success as a film and television star for more than three decades. Thanks to Chestnut’s illustrious career, the actor received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Motion Picture category in 2022. Currently, Chestnut is the lead of the new CBS drama series WATSON and also serves as an executive producer.

In 2023, Chestnut won his second NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series for Peacock’s hit series “The Best Man: The Final Chapters.” His impressive list of television credits includes series regular roles on Showtime’s NURSE JACKIE (for which he earned his first NAACP Image Award), FX’s “American Horror Story,” Fox’s “Rosewood” and “The Resident,” as well as Amazon’s “Goliath,” TNT’s “Legends” and Hulu’s “Reasonable Doubt.”

On the feature film front, Morris burst onto the scene with his critically acclaimed performance as Ricky in John Singleton’s “Boyz n the Hood.” He went on to become one of the most bankable leading men for Sony Screen Gems, starring in eight films for the studio over two decades. Due to Chestnut’s loyal fan base, the majority of those films opened #1 or #2 at the opening weekend box office.

Additional past studio feature film credits include “The Best Man,” “Identity Thief,” “Kickass 2,” “The Best Man Holiday,” “Like Mike,” “G.I. Jane,” “Ladder 49,” “The Game Plan,” “The Brothers,” “Two Can Play That Game,” “Not Easily Broken,” “Think Like a Man,” “The Perfect Guy,” “When the Bough Breaks,” “The Call” and “Girls Trip.”

Chestnut is also a seasoned producer. His production banner MC8 Entertainment currently has projects in various stages of development and production at Netflix, BET Studios and CBS Studios. Previous feature films Chestnut has produced include “Takers” starring Idris Elba, “Spell” starring Omari Hardwick and Sony’s “Not Easily Broken.”

Follow Chestnut on Instagram @morrischestnutofficial.