Biography
Edwin Martel Basil Hodge (born January 26, 1985) is an American actor and the older brother of actor Aldis Hodge. He is known for portraying Dante Bishop in The Purge film series, and is the only actor to appear in all of the first three films. He played the role of "the Bloody Stranger" in the horror film The Purge (2013) and its sequels The Purge: Anarchy (2014) and The Purge: Election Year (2016); "the Bloody Stranger" was revealed to be named Dante Bishop in the third film. He also appeare...
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Complete Filmography

Parallel
2024
as Martel
Grief-stricken after the loss of her child, Vanessa takes refuge at a lake house only to be met with an aberration of herself from a parallel universe...

Parallel
2024
Producer, Writer
Grief-stricken after the loss of her child, Vanessa takes refuge at a lake house only to be met with an aberration of herself from a parallel universe...

Injustice
2021
as Michael Holt / Mr. Terrific / Waylon Jones / Killer Croc (voice)
When Lois Lane is killed, an unhinged Superman decides to take control of the Earth. Determined to stop him, Batman creates a team of freedom-fighting...

The Tomorrow War
2021
as Dorian
The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is los...

If Not Now, When
2020
as Walter
Centers around four friends who met while in high school and are bonded by an event that happens. Fifteen years later, they are suddenly forced to all...

Bumblebee
2018
as Danny Bell
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to ...

The Good Neighbor
2016
as Officer Palmer
Two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor.

The Purge: Election Year
2016
as Dante Bishop
Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Ro...

As Above, So Below
2014
as Benji
When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones that lies beneath the streets of Paris, they embark on a journey into madness and t...

The Purge: Anarchy
2014
as The Stranger
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 ...

The Purge
2013
as Bloody Stranger
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During on...

Christmas in Compton
2012
as Pookie
Big Earl, the owner of a Christmas tree lot in Compton, California runs into some trouble when his son Derrick crosses the line to prove to his father...

Red Dawn
2012
as Danny
A city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky—shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their ...

Take Me Home Tonight
2011
as Bryce
Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin should be well on his way to a successful career at a Fortune 500 company, but instead he rebels against maturity by tak...

Beautiful Loser
2009
as Morgan (teenage)
His parents named him Reginald Regineld. His friends call him "Ditto." At the age of eleven he decided he wasn't going to do anything with his life. A...

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
2006
as Bird
Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly ...

Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story
2005
as Darnell
Based on a true story, former parole officer Marilyn Gambrell and a colleague set up a pioneer trial-based program in one of America's toughest high s...

Debating Robert Lee
2004
as Elliot Davis
A group of jaded high school students sign up for a debate class taught by a tough, combative teacher from the Georgia Military Academy who teaches th...

The Alamo
2004
as Joe
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at th...

National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze
2003
as Tony
When a foreign-exchange student and a hooker - both named Dominique - show up on a college campus, the unsuspecting student body is in for the educati...

Hangman's Curse
2003
as Blake Hornsby
Bullying students are becoming deathly ill after screaming the name of a legendary ghost. What's to blame? An exotic illness? An illicit drug? Or is i...

Coastlines
2002
as Roy
An ex-con returns to his Florida hometown after three years and becomes involved with the wife of his best friend, the local sheriff.

Big Momma's House
2000
as Basketball Teen #1
When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate...

The Breaks
1999
as Tiki
Derrick, a racially-confused Irishman raised in the hood by a black family is having the worst day ever. Determined to prove to his fed-up mother and ...

Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework
1997
as Cody
Thirteen-year-old Jesse is a typical teenager who hates his teacher, Mrs. Fink. While visiting a vintage clothing shop, Jesse sees a doll that looks e...

The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
as Todd Henessey
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and...

Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995
as Dexter's Friend
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with c...

The Tomorrow War 2
N/A
as Dorian
The sequel to The Tomorrow War (2021).