Tommy Davidson

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Tommy Davidson
Davidson in 2008
Born	Anthony Reed[1] (1963-11-10) November 10, 1963 (age 57) Rolling Fork, Mississippi, U.S.
Alma mater	University of the District of Columbia
Occupation	Actor, comedian
Years active	1984–present[2]
Known for	Various roles in In Living Color Rushon in Booty Call Mitchell in Between Brothers Dexter in Malcolm and Eddie Womack/Sleep'n Eat in Bamboozled Oscar Proud in The Proud Family
Children	4

Thomas "Tommy" Davidson (born November 10, 1963) is an American comedian, film and television actor.^[3] He was an original cast member on the sketch comedy TV show In Living Color, Mitchell on Between Brothers (1997-1999), Dexter on Malcolm and Eddie (1999-2000), and Oscar Proud on The Proud Family (2001-2005). and Rushon in Booty Call (1997), and Womack in Bamboozled (2000), and Black Dynamite (2009) and also the tv series.

Early years[]

Born Anthony Reed in Rolling Fork, Mississippi,^[1][4] Davidson was abandoned in the trash at 18 months old, before being rescued by the woman who became his adoptive mother.^[5][6] He was a child of an interracial adoption; his adoptive parents are white, and he is African-American.^[5] His parents changed his name to Thomas Davidson when they adopted him.^[1] He has two older white siblings, Michael and Beryle. He and his family had moved from Colorado to Wyoming to Oregon by the time he was five years old.^[7]

His parents divorced when he was five years old, and his mother and the children moved to Washington, D.C.^[1] They later moved to Wheaton, Maryland, then the neighborhood of Rosemary Hills in Silver Spring, and then Takoma Park.^[1][5] He attended Rosemary Hills Elementary School, Sligo Middle School, and Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, in Bethesda, Maryland.^[1][5] After graduating in 1981,^[5] he studied communications and interned at the radio station of the University of the District of Columbia for one semester.^[8] He had jobs in the kitchen of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, cleaning at Roy Rogers, bussing tables at an IHOP in Wheaton, and working in the storeroom of Hechinger in Hyattsville, Maryland.^[1][5]

Early career[]

Davidson started his career as a stand-up comedian in 1986,^[2] when a childhood friend convinced him to perform stand-up at The Penthouse strip club in Park View, Washington, D.C..^[5][9] He continued performing in various comedy clubs throughout the Washington Metropolitan region, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. He opened concerts for Patti LaBelle, Starpoint, and Kenny G.^[10] He performed on a fundraising telethon for WHMM in 1987.^[11]

Davidson won an amateur stand-up competition at the Apollo Theater in 1987.^[5] Soon afterwards, he moved to North Hollywood, California, where he met Martin Lawrence, who lived in his building.^[5][12] He performed at the Comedy Store, where Robert Townsend heard of him and asked him to be the warm-up comic for an HBO special.^[5] After performing at Luther Vandross and Anita Baker shows, he appeared on the Arsenio Hall Show.^[5]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Television[]

Comedy specials[]

Book[]

• Davidson, Tommy; Teicholz, Tom (2020). Living in Color. Kensington Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4967-1294-3.

References[]

External links[]

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• Tommy Davidson at IMDb