Marcus Chong

Marcus Chong was born on Jul 08, 1967 in USA. Marcus Chong's big-screen debut came with Roots: The Next Generations - Season 1 directed by John Erman in 1979, strarring Frankie Warner. Marcus Chong is known for The Matrix directed by Lana Wachowski, Keanu Reeves stars as Neo and Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus. The upcoming new movie Marcus Chong plays is The Crow: Wicked Prayer which will be released on Sep 14, 2005.

Marcus Chong began as a child actor in Racines 2 (1979) as Frankie Warner where he met Alex Haley. He then went on to work on La petite maison dans la prairie (1974), starring Michael Landon . As a young adult, he appeared on Broadway in "Stand Up Tragedy", and won a Theater World Award. In film, he debuted in Jeff Bridges's American Heart (1992) about street kids in Seattle. He went on to perform in "Panther", written and directed by Melvin Van Peebles. Chong portrayed Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panthers. Marcus filmed Matrix (1999). Chong has been performing his up and coming new productions on stage in NY as Alexander Dumas, author of the "Three Musketeers" and the "Count of Monte Cristo". Chong portrayed Harry Belafonte in Not 4 Sale (2013) and appeared in the USC film Son Shine (2013). He also appeared on such television shows as New York - Unité spéciale (1999), New York - Section criminelle (2001) and Burn Notice (2007).