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Larenz Tate (born September 8, 1975 in Chicago, Illinois) is an African American actor.

Early life and television career

Born on the west side of Chicago, Tate is the youngest of three siblings (his two brothers, Larron and Lahmard, are also actors) whose family moved to California when he was nine years old. Convinced by their parents to enter a drama program at the Inner City Cultural Center, the trio didn't take the lessons seriously until classmate Malcolm-Jamal Warner's ascent to fame after being cast on the hugely popular sitcom The Cosby Show. Subsequently realizing that they could parlay their efforts into a tangible form of success, the siblings began to receive small roles and in 1985 Tate made his small-screen debut in an episode of The Twilight Zone -- The Series. Following appearances in such popular television series as 21 Jump Street and The Wonder Years, Tate was cast in the made-for-television feature The Women of Brewster Place before receiving a recurring role in the popular family comedy series Family Matters (1989). He was also a cast member on the short lived CBS series The Royal Family, starring Redd Foxx and Della Reese.

Film career

Following numerous small-screen roles, offers began pouring in for the young actor, and in late 1992, collaborative filmmaking siblings Albert and Allen Hughes approached Tate to star in their debut feature Menace II Society. A jarring vision of inner-city desperation and decay, the film found Tate channeling his substantial energy into creating a truly memorable character, O-Dog. Following up with the little-seen but often-praised television series South Central, Tate would later appear in the family comedy-drama The Inkwell
(1994) before re-teaming with the Hughes brothers for Dead Presidents
(1995) and taking on the role of a love-stricken young poet in the romantic drama Love Jones
(1997). With subsequent roles in such films as The Postman (as the automotively monikered Ford Lincoln Mercury), Why Do Fools Fall In Love
(1998), and 2000's Love Come Down, Tate continued to compel audiences well into the new millennium. Though a big theatrical release had eluded Tate for the first few years of the millennial turnover, the talented young actor would soon turn up opposite Laurence Fisburne in the high-octane Biker Boyz
(2003), Crash
(2004), and as music legend Quincy Jones in Ray
(2005).

Tate is currently starring as "Shooter" in the CBS drama Love Monkey.

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