Michael Ealy

Michael Brown born August 3 1973 professionally known as Michael Ealy was born on August 3 1973 in Silver Spring Maryland He attended SpringbrookHigh School and the University of Maryland College Park Ealy started his acting career in the late1990s appearing in a number of offBroadway stage productions Among his first film roles were Bad Company and Kissing Jessica Stein His breakout role came in 2002s Barbershop in which he plays reformed street thug Ricky Nash a role that he reprised in the 2004 sequel Barbershop 2 Back in Business In 2003 he played the role of Slap Jack in the second installment of the Fast and the Furious film series 2 Fast 2 Furious Later in 2004 Ealy appeared in Never Die Alone with DMX In 2005 Ealy costarred in the telefilm version of Their Eyes Were Watching God produced by Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones and starring Academy Awardwinning actress HalleBerry The same year he starred in the independent film Jellysmoke directed by Mark Banning He starred in the Showtime television series Sleeper Cell and Sleeper Cell American Terror On December 14 2006 Ealy was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in Sleeper Cell American Terror in the category Best Performance by an Actor in a MiniSeries or Motion Picture Made for Television In December 2008 he was featured in the movie Seven Pounds alongside Will Smith as Ben Thomas He also starred as CIA Field Officer Marshall Vogel in the ABC television series FlashForward In 2010 Ealy starred in the actionthriller Takers and in the drama For Colored Girls Also in 2010 Ealy signed on to play an attorney Derrick Bond in the TV series The Good Wife