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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Silent Hour
2024
as Mason Lynch
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
2024
as Moreao
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
2024
as James Henry
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
2024
as Max Bomer
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
2024
Co-Executive Producer
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
2019
as Sonny
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
2019
as Prosecutor A.J. Canton
A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.
A Talent For Trouble
2018
as Mekhi Phifer
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
2016
as Best Valentine
The Chocolate City dancers come together to save their club from foreclosure. They decide to enter a national stripper competition, traveling all the ...
Allegiant
2016
as Max
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
2016
as Gunner
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
2015
as Max
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
2014
as Lewis
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
2014
as Max
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
2013
as James Johnson
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
2013
as The Suspect
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
2011
as Darrien
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
2011
as Jeremy Davis
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
2009
as King Khi
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
2008
as Maxwell Terry
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
2008
Production Artist
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
2007
as Gerald
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
2006
as Big Daddy
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
2006
Director, Producer
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
2005
as Isaac Duperde
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
2004
as Andre
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
Honey
2003
as Chaz
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
8 Mile
2002
as Future
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
2002
as Mitch
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
2002
as Self
A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.
The Other Brother
2002
as Martin
A frustrated writer reluctantly turns to his womanizing brother for advice about the opposite sex.
Impostor
2001
as Cale
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
2001
as Gale Sayers
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
2001
as Odin James
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
2001
as Hill
An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.
Shaft
2000
as Trey Howard
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
1999
as Silk
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
1999
as Jefferson
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
1998
as Tyrell
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
1998
as Johnny Miles
Newly released from jail, an ex-gang member asks a former contender to teach him to box.
Soul Food
1997
as Lem
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
1997
as Harold
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
1997
as Man in Hallway (segment "Fern's Heart of Darkness")
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
1996
as Griff McReynolds
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
1996
as Himself (cameo) (uncredited)
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Clockers
1995
as Ronald 'Strike' Dunham
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
1995
as Lewis Johns
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. ...