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Charles Reese(I)

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Charles Reese plays the feisty chef, Jalil Baldwin on the American TV sitcom, Beauty and the Baller, (Season One-Now Streaming on Amazon Prime). The show is based on the web series, Who, created by the late Emmy winning writer-producer, Michael Ajakwe Jr. Reese is a New York Audelco Awards nominee and a native of Washington, D.C. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communications & Theatre Arts from Morehouse College. Reese also holds a certificate of completion in Theatre Performance/Management from the Burt Reynolds Theatre Institute under the tutelage of the late Master Theatre Director/Producer, Jose Quintero in association with Florida State University. Reese is known in the theatrical circles for his critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway performance in Howard Simon's production of James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire. Critic David DeWitt of The New York Times called the play, "...funny, thrilling and wise, buoyed by the passionate performance of Charles Reese in the title role." Additional Off-Broadway and regional theatre credits include: In Dahomey (New Federal Theatre); Freedom Fighters & Friends (Arena Stage); Julie Hebert's St. Joan and the Dancing Sickness (Open Fist Theatre); and Myla Churchill's Griot Trio (Aaron Davis Hall). Television credits include: WHO...a micro web comedy (Pipe Dreams Productions); He was also in Law & Order, Between the Lines, Grapevine, In the Heat of the Night (episodes). Film: 40, On the Low, and Road Lawyers and Other Briefs. As a writer, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of James Baldwin, Reese co-authored the book adaption of James Baldwin: A Soul On Fire, which includes the play version and commentary to pay homage to Baldwin's legacy as an author and civil rights activist. He also contributed an essay titled James Baldwin: Artist as Activist and the Baldwin /Kennedy Secret Summit of 1963 to the volume, James Baldwin: Challenging Authors, edited by Paul L. Thomas & A. Scott Henderson. Reese was a guest speaker at the 2016 International James Baldwin Conference at the American University of Paris in France. Reese served as the James Baldwin Artist in Residence for the inaugural James Baldwin Writer's Colony at the Emerson College European Center at Kasteel Well in The Netherlands. He is a very popular lecturer/performance literary conversationalist via virtual/remote/zoom online spaces at colleges, universities and cultural venues in the USA and internationally with his unique history-telling salon series, "An Evening with James Baldwin, A Literary Performance & Conversation Salon ." Reese is a founding associate and former Board of Advisors for the world's first web series festival, The Los Angeles Web Series Festival.
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A House Divided (2019)
A House Divided
6.0
TV Series
  • Iko
Akeem Smith and Diandra Lyle in Beauty and the Baller (2017)
Beauty and the Baller
6.8
TV Series
  • Jalil Baldwin
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Ali Atay, and Deniz Çakir in 40 (2009)
40
6.5
  • African Driver
  • 2009
Ice-T, Sam Waterston, Mariska Hargitay, Camryn Manheim, Christopher Meloni, Jeffrey Donovan, Mehcad Brooks, Kelli Giddish, and Danielle Moné Truitt in Law & Order (1990)
Law & Order
7.8
TV Series
  • Miller's Supporter

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  • Lacy Darryl Phillips, Angela Robinson, T'Keyah Crystal Keymah, Charles Reese, Darryl Reuben Hall, Natasha Yvette Williams, Tarra Conner Jones, Jannie Jones, LaTrisa Harper, and Ramona Dunlap in Harlem of the South (2023)
    Harlem of the South
    • Harlem Performer
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2023
  • A House Divided (2019)
    A House Divided
    • Iko
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Akeem Smith and Diandra Lyle in Beauty and the Baller (2017)
    Beauty and the Baller
    • Jalil Baldwin
    • TV Series
    • 2017
  • Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Ali Atay, and Deniz Çakir in 40 (2009)
    40
    • African Driver
    • 2009
  • On the Low
    • Russell Evans
    • Short
    • 2005
  • Ice-T, Sam Waterston, Mariska Hargitay, Camryn Manheim, Christopher Meloni, Jeffrey Donovan, Mehcad Brooks, Kelli Giddish, and Danielle Moné Truitt in Law & Order (1990)
    Law & Order
    • Miller's Supporter
    • TV Series
    • 2000
  • Jasmine Guy, Pam Arciero, Anthony Asbury, Bertice Berry, Tyler Bunch, Kim Carrell, Emilio Delgado, David Matthew Feldman, Alison Fraser, Denyce Graves, Karen Evans Kandel, James J. Kroupa, Peter Linz, Adrian Martinez, Kathryn Mullen, Fred Newman, Chris Phillips, Caroll Spinney, Matt Vogel, Ruth Westheimer, Steve Whitmire, Eric Jacobson, Jennifer Barnhart, Tim Lagasse, Heather Asch, BJ Guyer, Paul McGinnis, Trevor Heins, Misha Gonz-Cirkl, Richard O'Connor, Scott Dodson, Richard Zhuravenko, Charles Reese, Joe James, Stephen Scott Scarpulla, Brynn Williams, Brianna Montgomery, Nicole Brown, and Makeeba Mooncycle in Between the Lions (1999)
    Between the Lions
    • Joe, The Mailman (uncredited)
    • TV Series
    • 2000
  • Lela Rochon and Phil Morris in Legal Deceit (1997)
    Legal Deceit
    • Party Guest
    • 1997
  • Carroll O'Connor and Howard E. Rollins Jr. in In the Heat of the Night (1988)
    In the Heat of the Night
    • Clarence Thompson
    • TV Series
    • 1992
  • Lynn Clark, Steven Eckholdt, and Jonathan Penner in Grapevine (1992)
    Grapevine
    • Peter
    • TV Series
    • 1992
  • Road Lawyers and Other Briefs (1990)
    Road Lawyers and Other Briefs
    • Man in Limbo (segment "Escape From Heaven")
    • 1990

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