Romany Malco
Romany Romanic Malco Jr. is an American actor, rapper, musician, and producer working across film, television, and music, with additional credits as a director, screenwriter, and executive producer.
Born on November 18, 1968, in Brooklyn, Malco was educated at Sterling High School. His professional pursuits span an unusually wide range of creative and production roles, encompassing work as a film actor, television actor, voice actor, and video game actor, as well as activity behind the camera as both a film director and television director.
In addition to his on-screen presence, Malco has worked as a film screenwriter, television writer, film producer, and executive producer, reflecting a career that extends well beyond performance into the development and creation of projects. His recorded output as a rapper and musician further demonstrates the breadth of his professional engagements. Taken together, these overlapping occupations — spanning the recorded music industry, live-action film and television performance, voice work, directing, writing, and producing — establish Malco as a practitioner whose career resists easy categorization within a single medium or discipline. The recurring thread across his body of work is this sustained engagement with multiple facets of American entertainment, from the performance stage to the production office, conducted in English and rooted in the American creative industries in which he has built his professional life.
Quotes by Romany Malco
For me, I never want anyone outside of my immediate family and outside of me to have the power to alter the way that I walk, talk, shop, or date. When you start feeding off of that outside acceptance and accolades, you lose sight of what's actually real. Once you get there, it's kind of hard to double back.
You know how many times I have to witness the transition from, 'Oh, get away from that thug,' to, 'Oh, wait a minute, that's the guy from 'Weeds'! Hey, can I shake your hand?'
My mother is getting up there in age, and sometimes I go visit her in Florida. I cook for all of her friends. Sometimes I have to avoid the table because I do not want to hear what they're talking about.
I started out mainstream and then literally made a conscious decision, like, 'I don't have that core black audience on my side.' And then I literally started looking for projects to get involved in.
One of the reasons I moved back to Brooklyn is to get to hang out with the guys I've known since we were 12, 13 years old. Having that sense of community is incredibly important to me.
Nobody knows my name. Nobody knows me at all, but they call me by the character of the last movie that I was in.
Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.
When I did 'Think Like A Man', I would run into people who were acting like it was the first thing I'd ever done. I was at the premiere of 'Think Like A Man,' and people were coming up to me, like, 'Man, you're going to get work after this, bruh.'