Faizon Love
Faizon Andre Love is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his roles in the comedy films The Meteor Man, Friday, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, B.A.P.S., The Replacements, Made, Mr Bones, Blue Crush, and Couples Retreat, as well as the voice of Sean "Sweet" Johnson in the action-adventure game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and his role as Wendell Wilcox on the sitcom television series The Parent 'Hood.
Early life
Love was born in Santiago de Cuba on June 14, 1968. He has described himself as a military brat who was raised in Southeast San Diego, California and Newark, New Jersey because of his father's career in the U.S. Navy. He graduated from Morse High School in Southeast San Diego.Career
Love got his start as a stand-up comedian at age 15 and made his acting debut in an off-Broadway play at the age of 19. His film debut, Bebe's Kids, saw him provide the voice of comedian Robin Harris, who died before production began on the film; Love offered a close vocal impression of Harris. He then had a role in The Meteor Man, starring Robert Townsend. Townsend then cast Love in a co-starring role on his sitcom The Parent 'Hood.He followed up this role with a breakout performance as the drug supplier Big Worm in the 1995 film Friday. Follow-up films have included 3 Strikes, Elf, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Money Talks, Wonderland, The Fighting Temptations, and Idlewild. In 2001, Love guest-starred in the Ludacris single "Freaky Thangs" from the album Word of Mouf. The same year, he made a cameo appearance as a bus driver, in the music video for Lil Jon & The East Side Boys' single "Put Yo Hood Up".
Love lent his voice to the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, portraying Sean "Sweet" Johnson, the leader of the Grove Street Families and the older brother of the game's protagonist. He co-starred in Couples Retreat, a comedy film chronicling four couples who partake in therapy sessions at a tropical island resort.
In 2012, he played Stringer Bell in a satirical trailer for The Wire: The Musical. In June of that year, he started to appear in a series of commercials for Boost Mobile, promoting its new 4G phones.
Controversy, lawsuits, and arrests
In 2014, Love posted a series of controversial tweets in the wake of the sexual assault cases against Bill Cosby. Defending Cosby against the charges, he used profanity and racial slurs against Cosby's accusers as well as comedian Hannibal Buress, who had been credited with bringing wider attention to the allegations in a stand-up routine. In 2015, Love once again posted tweets in defense of Cosby, dismissing his fellow African-Americans who believed the allegations as "spineless monkeys".On March 7, 2017, Love was arrested on a charge of misdemeanor assault in Columbus, Ohio. An altercation with a valet had occurred at John Glenn Columbus International Airport, with video evidence showing Love grabbing the valet behind the neck in the baggage claim area and throwing him onto the ground and into a desk. Love pled not guilty, but later pled no contest and received a $500 fine and a 180-day suspended jail sentence.
In 2018, a personal assistant to Love sued him for sexual harassment, which case Love settled.
In 2022, a personal assistant to Love, Hevekiah Walker, sued him and his company, Assembly Robot Inc., alleging that Love sexually harassed her during her five-month tenure as Love's personal assistant in Love's Gwinnett County home. Neither Love, nor his company, responded to the complaint leading to a default judgment against them in 2023, the court awarding Walker $500,000 plus approximately $43,000 in interest and costs. In June 2024, Walker filed a garnishment against NBCUniversal to recover any residual payments due Love that NBCUniversal held. NBCUniversal failed to respond to the garnishment and a $543,652 default judgment was rendered against it. Then NBCUniversal missed another deadline in failing to seek to modify the judgment within 90 more days. After finally attempting to void the default judgment, which attempt was unsuccessful, on August 26, 2025, NBCUniversal appealed the judgment to the Georgia Supreme Court claiming it was arbitrary to be responsible for the entire judgment as it claimed it had just $652 in residual payments due Love that could be originally garnished.
In February 2025, Love was accused of attacking a female hotel clerk with a credit card machine after she told him she couldn't give him the room he booked through a third party. In July 2025, a San Diego County California judge said there was enough evidence to move the felony case forward. Love has pled not guilty with trial set for January 2026.