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Phifer is an owner of six Athlete's Foot athletic shoe store franchises in California. He has his own well on the well known poker forum 2+2 a non-profit organization established in 2000 to provide educational resources to universities in Africa. Phifer is chairman of the board of trustees of The Vine Group USA. Phifer plays on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the Love Our Children USA charity. Phifer was the 2004 winner of the Celebrity Poker Showdown Championship, defeating Neil Patrick Harris during the fourth season.
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The Black Poker Stars Invitational, 2008, BET.Homicide: Life on the Street, 1996–1998, 3 episodes.His second son, Mekhi Thira Phifer Jr., was born to his Laotian girlfriend Oni Souratha in Los Angeles on October 30, 2007. Phifer has a son, Omikaye, with his ex-wife, actress Malinda Williams.
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In December 2010, it was announced that Phifer will star alongside John Barrowman and Eve Myles as CIA agent Rex Matheson in Torchwood: Miracle Day, the fourth series of the BBC/ Starz Entertainment television show Torchwood. Mekhi Phifer will appear as a guest on Season 2 of Top Chef Masters. He is mentioned in the Grammy and Academy Award winning song " Lose Yourself" by Eminem.
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He appeared in Impostor as well as Paid in Full and director Curtis Hanson’s 8 Mile, opposite Eminem. O), and the thriller Uninvited Guest (as Silk). Īmong Phifer’s other big-screen credits are Soul Food, The Biography of Spud Webb, Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, Tears of a Clown, O (as the titular character Odin a.k.a. In 2009, Phifer began a guest-starring arc on the Fox drama Lie to Me. Likewise, he earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for another TV movie, A Lesson Before Dying, opposite Don Cheadle.
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Phifer guest-starred in the series Homicide: Life on the Street and New York Undercover.
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He received additional notice for his performance opposite singer Beyoncé Knowles (from Destiny’s Child) on MTV’s alternative take on the Carmen legend with the movie Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001). Phifer’s television credits include the movies The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), HBO's Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground (1997), and Brian's Song (2001) (as former Chicago Bear Gale Sayers). During his 6 years in the show, he was nominated twice for an NAACP Award. His character was tragically killed off in the conclusion of the season 14 finale cliffhanger involving an ambulance explosion that was rigged to kill an injured FBI informant ( Steve Buscemi). Phifer left the show in September 2008, in the first episode of Season 15. Gregory Pratt on the medical drama ER, that he started in April 2002. He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. He followed that role with another in the comedy spoof feature High School High (which also starred his former wife Malinda Williams) and continued by co-starring in the fright flick I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze, Jr. In 1995, Phifer attended an open casting call for director Spike Lee’s Clockers, beating over a thousand others to get the lead role as a narcotics dealer embroiled in a murder cover-up. Phifer was born in Harlem, New York City, the son of Rhoda Phifer, a high school teacher he grew up in a single-parent household with his mother.