--- name: "Romany Malco" canonical: "https://film.one/person/romany-malco" fi1m_id: "romany-malco" imdb_id: "nm0539082" tmdb_id: 71530 wikidata_id: "Q924104" roles: ["Actor"] born: "18 November 1968" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 78 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-17T18:11:44.603643+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Romany Malco ## Identity Romany Malco - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/romany-malco - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** romany-malco - **IMDb ID:** nm0539082 - **TMDB ID:** 71530 - **Wikidata ID:** Q924104 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romany_Malco, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q924104, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0539082/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71530 Actor. Born 18 November 1968 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 18 November 1968, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA - **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as actor, over 2 titles - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romany_Malco, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q924104, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0539082/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71530 ## Streaming the US now - **AMC+:** [*The 40 Year-Old Virgin*](https://film.one/film/the-40-year-old-virgin.md) (79) - **Paramount+:** [*Weeds*](https://film.one/tv/weeds.md) (76) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Romany Malco > Romany Malco is the friend at the table who has already worked out what is going on. In the ensemble comedies that made his name he supplies the speed; in *Weeds*, given a kitchen table and a trade he understands, he supplied the sense. In *The 40 Year-Old Virgin* (2005) Jay works the floor of an electronics shop and gives Andy advice at a rate Andy cannot take in. Malco's trick is to deliver bad advice with complete conviction and then, a beat later, let us see that he half knows it is bad. He, Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen sound like men who have stood behind the same counter for years, which is why the friendship holds even when what they are saying is no help at all. Apatow lets the routines run long. Malco is usually the one keeping them moving. He came to acting late and sideways. He was a rapper with College Boyz in the early 1990s, then a producer, and in 1997 John Leguizamo told him to try acting. Eight years later two things landed in the same year, the Apatow film and *Weeds*, and he has since said of the first that "I was actually begging [writer-director] Judd Apatow to cut me out of it." The parts that followed came in a recognisable shape: fast talkers, men who chase women and explain themselves afterwards, in *Blades of Glory* (2007) and *Think Like a Man* (2012), where his Zeke Freeman will not commit to anyone. He has made two films with the director Tim Story. Then, in *A Million Little Things* (2018 to 2023), he spent five years as Rome Howard in a drama, without a counter to lean on. Conrad Shepard is the other Malco. In *Weeds* (2005) he and Tonye Patano play Heylia and Conrad, the suppliers Nancy relies on, and Jenji Kohan writes their kitchen as the one place in the show where anyone tells the truth. Malco slows right down there. We were surprised by how much we wanted the show to stay in that kitchen: he and Patano are the only adults on screen who know what they are doing, and their competence is restful after an hour of everyone else improvising. He was a regular for three seasons, and the show thins out after three seasons. We would not swear the two facts are related. The fast-talking friend is a part that can be written lazily, and often has been, and when a script gives Malco nothing but volume he tends to give volume back. He is better when someone lets him be the person who knows, which is why the kitchen beats the shop floor. Start with the shop floor anyway, for the counter talk, and then watch him sit still. He has now written and directed a film of his own, *Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison*, which reads to us as a man who has stopped waiting for someone else to write him the part. ## Biography Romany Malco is an American actor, rapper and music producer. Born on 18 November 1968 in Brooklyn, New York, he began his career as a rapper with the group College Boyz. While working as a music producer on the film *The Pest* (1997), he was encouraged by John Leguizamo to pursue acting. Malco played Jay in the 2005 comedy *The 40-Year-Old Virgin*. On television he portrayed Conrad Shepard in *Weeds* (2005–2012) and Rome Howard in *A Million Little Things* (2018–2023). His other film roles include *Think Like a Man* (2012), *Last Vegas* (2013) and *The DUFF* (2015). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *The 40 Year-Old Virgin* (2005), Fi1m 79, as Jay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-40-year-old-virgin.md) - *Weeds* (2005), Fi1m 76, as Conrad Shepard — [page](https://film.one/tv/weeds.md) ## Complete filmography (41) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison* (2020), as Tijuana Jackson · Writer, Director - *Holiday Rush* (2019), as Rashon 'Rush' Williams - *Night School* (2018), as Jaylen - *A Million Little Things* (2018), series, as Rome Howard - *Almost Christmas* (2016), as Christian - *When the Bough Breaks* (2016), as Todd Decker - *The DUFF* (2015), as Principal Buchanon - *Mad Dogs* (2015), series, as Gus - *Top Five* (2014), as Benny - *Think Like a Man Too* (2014), as Zeke Freeman - *Last Vegas* (2013), as Lonnie - *Think Like a Man* (2012), as Zeke Freeman - *Key & Peele* (2012), series, as Johnson Family Member — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/key-and-peele.md) - *Unsupervised* (2012), series, as Darius Jenkins (voice) - *A Little Bit of Heaven* (2011), as Peter Cooper - *Gulliver's Travels* (2010), as Hank (uncredited) - *No Ordinary Family* (2010), series, as George St. Cloud - *Saint John of Las Vegas* (2010), as Virgil - *The Good Wife* (2009), series, as Justin Coyne — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-wife.md) - *The Love Guru* (2008), as Darren Roanoke - *Baby Mama* (2008), as Oscar - *Blades of Glory* (2007), as Jesse - *The Ex* (2006), as Doctor Hakim Oliver - *The 40 Year-Old Virgin* (2005), as Jay — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/the-40-year-old-virgin.md) - *Weeds* (2005), series, as Conrad Shepard — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/weeds.md) - *American Dad!* (2005), series, as Skittle / Refugee / Hot Rod (voice) - *True Vinyl* (2004), as Nite Owl - *Churchill: The Hollywood Years* (2004), as Denzil Eisenhower - *Miss Match* (2003), series, as Master Z - *The Tuxedo* (2002), as Mitch - *White Boy* (2002), as Mike Robinson - *Ticker* (2001), as T.J - *The Prime Gig* (2001), as Zeke - *Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story* (2001), as MC Hammer - *The Château* (2001), as Allen 'Rex' Granville - *Level 9* (2000), series, Actor - *The Wrecking Crew* (2000), as Chewy - *Corrupt* (1999), as Snackbar Dude - *Urban Menace* (1999), as Syn - *For Your Love* (1998), series, Actor - *Touched by an Angel* (1994), series, as Bulldog ## Gallery - ![Romany Malco](https://film.one/media/person/98940/gallery-657b64bf9af7.jpg) Romany Malco — David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Romany_Malco_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/1280px-Romany_Malco_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Romany Malco at the premiere of Baby Mama at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/98940/gallery-d899667f7dec.jpg) Romany Malco at the premiere of Baby Mama at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. — David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Romany_Malco_portrait_2009.JPG/1280px-Romany_Malco_portrait_2009.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Actor Romany Malco from the television show Weeds, signs a hat for a U.S. Soldier assigned to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, inside the dini (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/98940/gallery-585af8648dbb.jpg) Actor Romany Malco from the television show Weeds, signs a hat for a U.S. Soldier assigned to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, inside the dini (2013) — Staff Sgt. Richard Andrade, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/%E2%80%98Hollywood_Ambassadors%E2%80%99_visit_FOB_Gamberi_%287%29.jpg/1280px-%E2%80%98Hollywood_Ambassadors%E2%80%99_visit_FOB_Gamberi_%287%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Romany Malco](https://film.one/media/person/98940/gallery-49d547947edd.jpg) Romany Malco — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/romany-malco