Biography
Vicellous Reon Shannon is a native of Memphis, Tennessee. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Lesra Martin in the 1999 film The Hurricane, and Keith Palmer, the son of presidential candidate David Palmer in the Fox television series 24. Vicellous also played in the 2006 film Annapolis. Raised in Orange County, California, Shannon was a promising high school baseball player until being sidelined by a severely injured hamstring. He took an interest in acting and began taking the two-hou...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Come Out Fighting
2023
as Sgt. Thomas
In WWII, a squad of U.S. African-American soldiers are sent on a rescue mission behind enemy lines to locate their lost commanding officer and a downe...

Distorted
2018
as Phillip Starks
A married couple suspect that the 'smart apartments' in their high tech residence are being used by its owner for sinister reasons.

The Humanity Bureau
2017
as Agent Porter
In 2030 the world is in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.

The Recall
2017
as Astronaut Jackson
When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion ...

Animal 2
2007
as Darius
Now serving a life sentence for murder, James "Animal" Allen returns to fighting for cash in order to help his troubled son on the outside. However, w...

Annapolis
2006
as Twins
Jake Huard, from a shipbuilders family, promised his dying mother he'ld make it to Anapolis Naval Academy. Thanks to tenaciously bugging a Congressman...

Last Flight Out
2004
as Jim
Hot-shot pilot Dan Hogan is sent deep into the Colombian jungle to rescue missionary doctor Ann Williams. Caught between innocent villagers and a ruth...

Hart's War
2002
as Lt. Lamar T. Archer
When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlistin...

Semper Fi
2001
as Keith Maddox
Cliff Truckee refuses a privileged start in life at a top college while other young men are enlisting. On the bus out of Chicago he meets a girl on he...

Dancing in September
2001
as James
A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.

Freedom Song
2000
as Owen Walker
Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle ...

The Hurricane
1999
as Lesra Martin
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

2 Little, 2 Late
1999
as Seth 'Crystal' Meth
A flurry of stories about different students at a local high school after racial tensions erupt.

David and Lisa
1998
as Tyrone
A psychiatrist tries to treat an emotionally disturbed teenage boy who has a pathological fear of being touched. The only person who can communicate e...

Can't Hardly Wait
1998
as Carl
It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night t...

Zooman
1995
as Russell
Shots ring out on a Brooklyn street and suddenly a young girl lies dead on her front steps. The killer's name is Zooman (Khalil Kain), and though doze...

D2: The Mighty Ducks
1994
as James
After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Duck...

M.A.N.T.I.S.
1994
as Ski (as Vicellous Reon Shannon)
A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N....

Kangaroo Court
1994
A black city attorney is forced to defend a white cop who's being held hostage by a gang seeking revenge for a young boy's murder.

Deep Cover
1992
as 13 Year Old
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian fore...