Ice Cube
Ice Cube has spent his whole career, first in music, and more often in recent years in film, quietly outshining his colleagues with a higher celebrity profile. But while many people were looking away, he’s accumulated a filmography that would be the envy of many of his peers.
He’s versatile as an actor as well. His ten best roles are roughly split between straight comedy, straight drama, and pure action films. And with his latest move into family comedies, he’s got as wide a demographic fanbase as anybody currently working. And he directs!
In the late 80’s, David Byrne was widely tauted as a renaissance man; Ice Cube could be the closest current thing to Byrne’s earlier takeover of multiple entertainment arenas, and at this point his total body of artistic achievement is likely to outshine Byrne’s.
Ten best roles
10) Anaconda 9) Torque 8) Barbershop 2: Back in Business 7) First Sunday 6) The Glass Shield 5) Dangerous Ground 4) Friday 3) Barbershop 2) Three Kings 1) Boyz n th Hood
Percentile rating
88.69
June 6th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
ooh, the sassy black one, he too starred as Fran Drescher’s butler in the big screen version of “The Nanny” Actually Three Kings was great and he was great in it.