Biography
Larenz Tate (born September 8, 1975) is an American film and television actor. Tate was born on the west side of Chicago, Illinois. He is the youngest of three siblings 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 did not take the lessons seriously until classmate Malcolm-Jamal Warner's ascent to fame after being cast on the sitcom The Cosby Show. Subsequently realizing that they could...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Business Ethics
2020
as Zachery Cranston
Fresh out of business school, Zachery Cranston seems to have all the tools necessary to succeed in the world of finance. But he is ambitious to a faul...
Girls Trip
2017
as Julian Stevens
Four girlfriends take a trip to New Orleans for an annual festival and, along the way, rediscover their wild sides and strengthen the bonds of sisterh...
Deuces
2017
as Deuces
Assigned to go undercover to take down an impenetrable crime ring, a detective finds himself falling under the sway of it's enigmatic leader.
Beta Test
2016
as Max
While testing the latest first person shooter from global game developer, Sentinel, video game champion Max Troy discovers the events happening within...
Beta Test
2016
Producer
While testing the latest first person shooter from global game developer, Sentinel, video game champion Max Troy discovers the events happening within...
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe...
White Water
2015
as Terrance
White Water is the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from th...
Gun Hill
2014
as Bird Stevens
A con man, Bird Stevens, assumes the identity of his cop twin brother, Trane, after his death; and goes on a search for his own redemption.
Bill Bellamy's Ladies Night Out Comedy Tour
2013
as Himself
Bill Bellamy's groundbreaking comedy tour brings together some of today's hottest male comics on showcase for the ladies of America. Featuring comics ...
Gangsta Vision: Making ‘Menace 2 Society’
2009
Documentary about the making of "Menace 2 Society."
Waist Deep
2006
as Lucky
An ex-convict gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
The Hot Spot
2005
Director, Writer
Robbyn and her luscious band of lascivious babes plan a big heist at a party hosted by Krunch, Robbyn's ex-boyfriend turned rap star who dumped her wh...
Crash
2005
as Peter Waters
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a...
Ray
2004
as Quincy Jones
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make h...
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
as Frankie Lymon in Why Do Fools Fall In Love (archive footage)
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen ...
A Man Apart
2003
as Demetrius Hicks
When Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks ha...
Biker Boyz
2003
as Wood
A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son", this is the story of Manuel Galloway, also known as "the King of Cali", the president of a motorcycle clu...
Love Come Down
2000
as Neville Carter
Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a...
Why Do Fools Fall In Love
1998
as Frankie Lymon
In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, former...
The Postman
1997
as Ford
In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the United States. Into this ...
Love Jones
1997
as Darius Lovehall
Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if ...
Dead Presidents
1995
as Anthony Curtis
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself ...
The Inkwell
1994
as Drew Tate
The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.
Menace II Society
1993
as Kevin 'O-Dog'
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
Seeds of Tragedy
1991
as Cornelius
Coca leaves making their way from Peru to Downtown Los Angeles.
The Women of Brewster Place
1989
as Sammy
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
Michael
N/A
as Berry Gordy
An in-depth portrayal of Michael Jackson, a complicated man, who became the King of Pop. The biopic will bring to life Jackson’s most iconic performan...