Mekhi Phifer

Mekhi Phifer

1974-12-29 New York City, New York, USA 48 Credits

Biography

Mekhi Thira Phifer (born December 29, 1974) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his multi-year role as Dr. Greg Pratt on NBC's long-running medical drama ER and his co-starring role opposite Eminem in the feature film 8 Mile. He was a regular on the Fox crime show Lie to Me portraying the role of Ben Reynolds, before season 3. He was born in in Harlem, New York City, the son of Rhoda Phifer, a high school teacher; he grew up in a single-parent household with his mother. His acting...

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The Silent Hour

The Silent Hour

2024

as Mason Lynch

6.5
Acting

While working a case as an interpreter, a hearing-impaired police detective must confront a group of criminals trying to eliminate a deaf murder witne...

Long Gone Heroes

Long Gone Heroes

2024

as Moreao

5.8
Acting

Gunner, a special forces soldier who has witnessed the darkest side of country and combat, is forced back into the field of battle to save his niece, ...

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

2024

as James Henry

6.5
Acting

Three lifelong best friends known as “The Supremes” share the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood from decades of weathering life’s storms. Through the jo...

Lights Out

Lights Out

2024

as Max Bomer

7.0
Acting

A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunnin...

Lights Out

Lights Out

2024

Co-Executive Producer

7.0
Producing

A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunnin...

Obsession

Obsession

2019

as Sonny

5.3
Acting

Before meeting George Good, Sonny Jordan was just a lost drifter with a troubled past floating from town to town, looking for work. As fate would have...

Canal Street

Canal Street

2019

as Prosecutor A.J. Canton

7.0
Acting

A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.

A Talent For Trouble

A Talent For Trouble

2018

as Mekhi Phifer

1.0
Acting

Set in the early 2000's when hip hop video's meant something. Sean Wellington, a neurotic music video director who was just given the opportunity of a...

Chocolate City: Vegas Strip

Chocolate City: Vegas Strip

2016

as Best Valentine

5.9
Acting

The Chocolate City dancers come together to save their club from foreclosure. They decide to enter a national stripper competition, traveling all the ...

Allegiant

Allegiant

2016

as Max

6.1
Acting

Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the ...

Pandemic

Pandemic

2016

as Gunner

5.1
Acting

After a virus of epic proportions overwhelms the planet—with more infected than uninfected—humanity is losing its grip on survival and its only hope i...

Insurgent

Insurgent

2015

as Max

6.4
Acting

Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

2014

as Lewis

6.0
Acting

When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she...

Divergent

Divergent

2014

as Max

6.9
Acting

In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers ...

The Love Section

The Love Section

2013

as James Johnson

2.0
Acting

Ali (LAWRENCE ADISA), is a struggling real estate agent and ladies man who has never desired to commit to anyone or anything. One night while out with...

The Suspect

The Suspect

2013

as The Suspect

5.4
Acting

Two African American social scientists pose as bank robbers in an effort to understand the racial dynamics of small-town law enforcement. However, the...

Flypaper

Flypaper

2011

as Darrien

6.4
Acting

A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

Last Man Standing

Last Man Standing

2011

as Jeremy Davis

4.4
Acting

Abby Collins's quiet life as a wife and mother shows no trace of her past work as a military special-ops expert -- until the day her husband is kidnap...

A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life

2009

as King Khi

5.5
Acting

Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who gets caught up in a bloody war between two feuding crime fami...

Nora's Hair Salon II: A Cut Above

Nora's Hair Salon II: A Cut Above

2008

as Maxwell Terry

5.2
Acting

Simone arrives in Los Angeles after inheriting her late aunt's hair salon where she soon clashes with the diva hairstylist who has her own ideas about...

Nora's Hair Salon II: A Cut Above

Nora's Hair Salon II: A Cut Above

2008

Production Artist

5.2

Simone arrives in Los Angeles after inheriting her late aunt's hair salon where she soon clashes with the diva hairstylist who has her own ideas about...

This Christmas

This Christmas

2007

as Gerald

6.5
Acting

This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and the...

Puff, Puff, Pass

Puff, Puff, Pass

2006

as Big Daddy

5.9
Acting

Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a ...

Puff, Puff, Pass

Puff, Puff, Pass

2006

Director, Producer

5.9
Directing Producing

Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a ...

Slow Burn

Slow Burn

2005

as Isaac Duperde

5.3
Acting

A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an at...

Dawn of the Dead

Dawn of the Dead

2004

as Andre

7.1
Acting

A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

Honey

Honey

2003

as Chaz

6.4
Acting

Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches...

The Making of '8 Mile'

2003

as Self

10.0
Acting
8 Mile

8 Mile

2002

as Future

7.1
Acting

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary...

Paid in Full

Paid in Full

2002

as Mitch

6.8
Acting

Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he fi...

NBC 75th Anniversary Special

NBC 75th Anniversary Special

2002

as Self

Acting

A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.

The Other Brother

The Other Brother

2002

as Martin

3.1
Acting

A frustrated writer reluctantly turns to his womanizing brother for advice about the opposite sex.

Impostor

Impostor

2001

as Cale

6.1
Acting

A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile ali...

Brian's Song

Brian's Song

2001

as Gale Sayers

6.2
Acting

The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo contr...

O

O

2001

as Odin James

5.9
Acting

Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player and future NBA hopeful Odin James has the adoratio...

Carmen: A Hip Hopera

Carmen: A Hip Hopera

2001

as Hill

6.2
Acting

An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.

Shaft

Shaft

2000

as Trey Howard

6.0
Acting

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail...

Uninvited Guest

Uninvited Guest

1999

as Silk

5.4
Acting

During a small gathering, a smooth, seductive stranger is invited into a couple's house party and falls in love with the wife. Turns out the stranger ...

A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

1999

as Jefferson

5.0
Acting

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him wi...

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

1998

as Tyrell

5.4
Acting

Ever since killing the Fisherman one year ago, Julie James is still haunted by images of him after her. When her best friend Karla wins free tickets t...

Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen

1998

as Johnny Miles

5.2
Acting

Newly released from jail, an ex-gang member asks a former contender to teach him to box.

Soul Food

Soul Food

1997

as Lem

6.3
Acting

Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) ...

Hav Plenty

Hav Plenty

1997

as Harold

5.5
Acting

Lee Plenty is an almost broke would-be novelist and Havilland Savage is a rich and very beautiful woman and his friend. When she invites him to her ho...

Subway Stories

Subway Stories

1997

as Man in Hallway (segment "Fern's Heart of Darkness")

5.6
Acting

An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.

High School High

High School High

1996

as Griff McReynolds

5.5
Acting

Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students...

Girl 6

Girl 6

1996

as Himself (cameo) (uncredited)

4.9
Acting

A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

Clockers

Clockers

1995

as Ronald 'Strike' Dunham

6.7
Acting

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bu...

The Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee Airmen

1995

as Lewis Johns

7.1
Acting

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. ...