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Mario Van Peebles
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor Born: January 15, 1957 in Mexico City, Mexico Biography:The son of African American director/writer Melvin Van Peebles, "Mario van Peebles" made his acting bow in a small role in his dad's "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" (1971). At the time, Van Peebles had no burning desire to become a performer, choosing instead to study economics at Columbia University. He wavered between a financial and an acting career before becoming a full-time actor with the 1984 film "Cotton Club." In 1988, Van Peebles starred in a conformist TV comedy adventure series, Sonny Spoon, playing a glib private eye with a predilection for elaborate disguises; this brief series afforded him his first opportunity to direct. Three years later he made his film directing debut with "New Jack City," a film widely praised by some as being a truthful, no-nonsense dissection of inner-city life, and widely derided by others as merely a slick outgrowth of the "blaxploitation" flicks of the... Full Biography
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