Clifton Powell
Clifton Powell is an American actor who primarily plays supporting roles in films, such as in Ray, for which he received an NAACP [Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture] nomination. He is also known for voicing Big Smoke in the action-adventure game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Career
Powell has appeared in more than one hundred films, beginning in the 1980s. His credits include House Party, Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, Why Do [Fools Fall in Love (film)|Why Do Fools Fall in Love], Rush Hour, Next Friday, and its 2002 sequel, Friday After Next, Woman Thou Art Loosed, and Ray. He played Martin [Luther King Jr.] in the 1999 television film Selma, Lord, Selma. Powell also has had many supporting roles in smaller direct-to-video films in 2000s and 2010s. In the music video for Tupac's "California Love" he played the post-apocalyptic party chief "Monster," often mistaken as George Clinton.On television, Powell had the recurring roles on Roc, South Central, and Army Wives, and well as guest-starred on In the [Heat of the Night (TV series)|In the Heat of the Night], Murder, She Wrote, NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and House. In 2016, Powell was cast as main antagonist in the Bounce TV first prime time soap opera, Saints & Sinners opposite Vanessa Bell Calloway and Gloria Reuben.
Powell is also known for his voice acting role as Big Smoke in the action-adventure game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
In 2017, Powell appeared in the second season of My Step Kidz.