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name: "Lester Speight"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 January 1963"
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updated: "2026-09-16T14:56:19.588302+00:00"
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# Lester Speight

Actor. Born 7 January 1963 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 January 1963, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

## Biography

Lester Speight is an American actor, former American football player and professional wrestler. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he played college football as an All-American linebacker at Morgan State University before a brief professional career and time as a wrestler under the name Rasta.

Speight gained widespread recognition for portraying Terry Tate, the Office Linebacker, in a series of popular Reebok television commercials that first aired during Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003. He is also known for voicing Augustus Cole in the Gears of War video game series.

His film credits include a role as Blue Latimore in *Norbit* (2007), as well as appearances in *Transformers: Dark of the Moon* (2011), *Faster* (2010) and *Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay* (2008). On television he has appeared in series such as *Prison Break*, *Bones* and *My Wife and Kids*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Norbit* (2007), Fi1m 31, as Blue Latimore — [page](https://film.one/film/norbit.md)

## Also known for

- *Transformers: Dark of the Moon* (2011), Eddie
- *Prison Break* (2005), Banks
- *Malcolm in the Middle* (2000), Samuel
- *Scorpion* (2014), Ten-Ton
- *Bones* (2005), Magnum
- *Titans* (2018), Clayton Williams
- *Faster* (2010), Hovis Nixon/Baphomet
- *Any Given Sunday* (1999), Shark's Security Guard

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