Biography
Michael Ealy is an American actor. Born Michael David Brown on 3 August 1973 in Washington, D.C., he was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, and graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a degree in English.
He began his career in the late 1990s with off-Broadway stage productions. His first film roles included Bad Company (2002) and Kissing Jessica Stein (2001). Ealy's breakthrough came with Barbershop (2002), in which he played Ricky Nash, a role he reprised in the 2004 sequel. In 2003 he appeared as Slap Jack in 2 Fast 2 Furious.
Subsequent credits include Seven Pounds (2008), Takers (2010), Think Like a Man (2012) and the television series Sleeper Cell (2005–2006). He has been married to Khatira Rafiqzada since 2012.
