LaKeith Stanfield

LaKeith Stanfield

1991-08-12 San Bernardino, California, USA 50 Credits

Biography

LaKeith Lee Stanfield (born August 12, 1991) is an American actor. He made his feature film debut in Short Term 12 (2013), for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. He received further recognition for his roles in the films Get Out (2017), Sorry to Bother You (2018), Uncut Gems (2019), Knives Out (2019), and Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), the lattermost of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Stanfield has also appeared in the fil...

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Die My Love

Die My Love

2025

as Karl

Acting

A woman living in a remote rural area is driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.

Roofman

Roofman

2025

Acting

A former Army Ranger and struggling father turns to robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs, earning him the nickname: Roofman....

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

2024

as Ernest Cole (voice)

7.8
Acting

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever...

The Book of Clarence

The Book of Clarence

2024

as Clarence/Thomas

6.0
Acting

Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by th...

Haunted Mansion

Haunted Mansion

2023

as Ben Matthias

6.5
Acting

A woman and her son enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.

The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall

2021

as Cherokee Bill

6.6
Acting

Gunning for revenge, outlaw Nat Love saddles up with his gang to take down enemy Rufus Buck, a ruthless crime boss who just got sprung from prison.

Judas and the Black Messiah

Judas and the Black Messiah

2021

as Bill O'Neal

7.3
Acting

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—fal...

The Photograph

The Photograph

2020

as Michael Block

6.4
Acting

When famed photographer Christina Eames dies unexpectedly, she leaves her estranged daughter, Mae, hurt, angry and full of questions. When Mae finds a...

Knives Out

Knives Out

2019

as Lieutenant Elliott

7.8
Acting

When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit B...

Uncut Gems

Uncut Gems

2019

as Demany

7.2
Acting

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of...

Someone Great

Someone Great

2019

as Nate Davis

6.4
Acting

An aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyfriend of nine years decides to call it quits. To n...

Let's Dance

Let's Dance

2018

as Segment: "Lunch Break"

6.1
Acting

Justin Peck, the New York City Ballet's resident choreographer, created a series of dances for 2018's best actors. The scenarios put everyday charact...

The Girl in the Spider's Web

The Girl in the Spider's Web

2018

as Edwin Needham

6.1
Acting

After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web ...

Time of Day

Time of Day

2018

as Self

5.3
Acting

Shot over the course of six weeks on 16mm film by Greek cinematographer, Thimios Bakatakis (The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer), the new rag...

Sorry to Bother You

Sorry to Bother You

2018

as Cassius Green

6.8
Acting

In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him i...

Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town

Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town

2018

as George

5.4
Acting

A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.

Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018

as Reggie

5.8
Acting

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

Quest

Quest

2017

as Diego

6.0
Acting

A non-romantic true love story between a humble teacher who believes there is no such thing as a bad kid, only a bad situation, and an abused 12 year ...

Death Note

Death Note

2017

as L

4.3
Acting

Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.

Crown Heights

Crown Heights

2017

as Colin Warner

6.6
Acting

When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.

Moonlight

Moonlight

2017

as Chandler

Acting

A look at an all-Black cast reboot of the TV show "Friends".

War Machine

War Machine

2017

as Cpl. Billy Cole

5.6
Acting

A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true stor...

LaZercism

LaZercism

2017

as Himself

4.0
Acting

Ask your doctor if LaZercism is right for you.

Get Out

Get Out

2017

as Andre Logan King

7.6
Acting

Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as ner...

The Incredible Jessica James

The Incredible Jessica James

2017

as Damon

6.2
Acting

Burned by a bad breakup, a struggling New York City playwright makes an unlikely connection with a divorced app designer she meets on a blind date.

Snowden

Snowden

2016

as Patrick Haynes

7.1
Acting

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

Live Cargo

Live Cargo

2016

as Lewis

5.8
Acting

Nadine and Lewis move to a small Bahamian island hoping to restore their relationship in the wake of a tragedy, only to find the picturesque island to...

Memoria

Memoria

2016

as Max

5.1
Acting

Ivan Cohen is a young boy living in Palo Alto, California. Unsatisfied by his slacker group of friends, his love for a girl who doesn't know he exists...

Miles Ahead

Miles Ahead

2016

as Junior

6.4
Acting

An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.

Tracks

2015

as Lawrence

Acting

An amateur skateboarder is left to care for his girlfriend's young daughter on the day of a championship tournament.

King Ripple

King Ripple

2015

as King Ripple

6.0
Acting

Four teens travel into a desolate and decrepit urban wasteland brought forth by the very being they wish to find, dead or alive.

Straight Outta Compton

Straight Outta Compton

2015

as Snoop Dogg

7.8
Acting

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in Am...

Verbatim: The Ferguson Case

Verbatim: The Ferguson Case

2015

as Dorian Johnson

Acting

Verbatim: The Ferguson Case dramatizes and juxtaposes the grand jury transcripts of two key witnesses in the shooting of the unarmed black teenager Mi...

Dope

Dope

2015

as Bug

7.1
Acting

Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A ch...

Selma

Selma

2014

as Jimmie Lee Jackson

7.4
Acting

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous stateme...

The Fires, Howling

2014

as The Staying One

2.0
Acting

At the time of the fire's burning, a young man heads over the hills away.

The Purge: Anarchy

The Purge: Anarchy

2014

as Young Goul Face

6.6
Acting

One night per year, the government sanctions a 12-hour period in which citizens can commit any crime they wish -- including murder -- without fear of ...

Short Term 12: Behind the Scenes

2014

as Self

7.0
Acting

A behind the scenes from film Short Term 12

Waves

2014

Acting
Short Term 12

Short Term 12

2013

as Marcus

7.8
Acting

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled ...

Short Term 12

Short Term 12

2008

as Mark

6.9
Acting

A day at a group home for troubled adolescents. Denim is the head counselor, involved somehow with Natalia, another counselor. During the day, we watc...

Play Dirty

N/A

as Grofield

Acting

Based on the professional thief character Parker, created by Donald E. Westlake. Premise TBA.

El Paso, Elsewhere

N/A

as James Savage

Acting

Recovering from a toxic relationship, James Savage confronts both his inner demons and enigmatic ex-girlfriend, Janet, before she executes a world-end...

Lear Rex

Lear Rex

N/A

as Edmund

Acting

An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections and driven into exile.

Untitled Fairy Tale Project

N/A

Acting

A princess's spell from her fairy godmother has unintended consequences for the fairy tale universe.

I Love Boosters

I Love Boosters

N/A

Acting

A ring of enterprising boosters (aka shoplifters, equal opportunists) take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven.

Prince of Cats

Prince of Cats

N/A

Acting

An 80s hip-hop retelling of Shakespeare's timeless classic "Romeo and Juliet". Tybalt and his Capulet crew navigate a violent Brooklyn neighnourhood w...

The Wrong Girls

N/A

Acting

Two aimless young women inadvertently gain telepathic abilities after ingesting an experimental drug, pitting them against dangerous rivals pursuing t...

Notes From a Young Black Chef

N/A

as Kwame Onwuachi

Acting

Upcoming film from A24 Based on Kwame Onwuachi's memoir which tells his unprecedented journey from childhood in the Bronx with a mostly single mother ...

El Paso, Elsewhere

N/A

Producer

Producing

Recovering from a toxic relationship, James Savage confronts both his inner demons and enigmatic ex-girlfriend, Janet, before she executes a world-end...