Michael Ealy Biography

Michael Ealy never considered becoming an actor and instead focused on athletics -- playing football and basketball for Springbrook High School. But when he saw Denzel Washington in Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues Ealy got the first notion that this was something he might like to pursue as a future career. Ironically at that time in his young life he was too afraid to take the stage in high school productions. He took classes and workshops and went on auditions while waiting tables for the next five years. A year later Ealy was performing on stage again playing a basketball star on a fictional team in the off-Broadway production J Fearless (A Fan Dance). The play had two different endings depending on whether or not Ealy sank the buzzer-beating jump shot. Ealy then made his feature debut with a small part as an unlucky boyfriend in the romantic comedy Kissing Jessica Stein. It was his next role that garnered him his first real widespread recognition -- that of Ricky Nash a reformed ex-con trying to earn his G.E.D. in the surprise urban comedy hit Barbershop. He would go on to reprise the popular character in the inevitable sequel Barbershop 2: Back in Business. Meanwhile Ealy scored supporting roles in Bad Company and 2 Fast 2 Furious before making the crossover to television with a two-episode arc on the indefatigable ER.

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