Page Kennedy
{{short description|American actor}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Page Kennedy
| image = Page Kennedy.JPG
| alt =
| caption = Kennedy at the 2007 American Music Awards
| birth_name = Felton Eugene Kennedy II
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1976|11|23}}{{cite web |title=Page Kennedy {{!}} Biography, Movie Highlights, and Photos |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/page-kennedy-p356891 |website=AllMovie.com |access-date=26 July 2022}}
| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Actor
- rapper
}}
| years_active =
| children = 4
}}
Page Kennedy (born Felton Eugene Kennedy II; November 23, 1976) is an American actor and rapper. In television, he is known for portraying Radon Randell in the Spike sports comedy series Blue Mountain State and "U-Turn" in the Showtime series Weeds. He has also appeared in film, with roles in S.W.A.T. and The Meg.{{cite web|title=BIO|url=http://www.pagekennedy.com/?page_id=4|work=pagekennedy.com|publisher=Page Kennedy|access-date=19 April 2012|year=2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031131242/http://www.pagekennedy.com/?page_id=4|archive-date=31 October 2010}} Outside of acting, Kennedy is active on social media, best known for being a popular Viner. On March 10, 2017, he released his first full length rap album titled Torn Pages featuring Royce da 5'9", Crooked I, Trick Trick and more.
Early life and education
Felton Eugene Kennedy II was born in Detroit, but grew up in Los Angeles with his mother until he was six years of age. He then moved back to Detroit to reunite with his father, who died after ten years.{{cn|date=July 2022}}
Kennedy attended Western Michigan University (WMU), before transferring to the University of Delaware (UD), and majored in theatre and acting. Kennedy's father was a doctor and encouraged his son to study medicine, but Kennedy gained a passion for acting after being introduced to the works of William Shakespeare at WMU. Kennedy subsequently chose to attend UD after performing with high distinction at Western Michigan.
Career
Kennedy soon moved to Los Angeles and began to guest star on several shows including Six Feet Under, Blind Justice, Barbershop, Love, Inc., NYPD Blue, The Shield, Weeds and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
In 2005, Kennedy won a recurring role on the popular ABC primetime soap opera, Desperate Housewives where he played Caleb Applewhite, a fugitive who was being held captive in his mother Betty's (Alfre Woodard) basement. However shortly after in November 2005, Kennedy was fired from Desperate Housewives as the result of an internal investigation by the studio into an allegation of misconduct;{{cite news |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2005-11-08-housewives-firing_x.htm |title='Desperate Housewives' actor Page Kennedy fired |newspaper=USA Today |date=8 November 2005 |access-date=21 April 2019 |first= Luis |last=Martinez |publisher=Gannett Co. Inc.}} Kennedy himself claimed that Touchstone Television, the producers of the show, wanted to take a new direction with the character and bought out his contract.{{cite journal |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1131825,00.html |title=Fired Housewives Actor: I Did No Wrong |journal=People.com |date=17 November 2005 |access-date=21 April 2019 |first1=Tiffany |last1=McGee |first2=Saryn |last2=Chorney |publisher=Meredith Corporation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220054316/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1131825,00.html |archive-date=20 February 2008}} He was replaced by NaShawn Kearse.{{cite web |last1=Starr |first1=Michael |title='Desperate' Replacement |url=https://nypost.com/2005/11/10/desperate-replacement/ |website=New York Post |date=November 10, 2005 |access-date=June 9, 2024 }}
Kennedy joined the cast of Showtime's hit series Weeds during its second and third season. He played "U-Turn", a drug-dealer and self-described "thug".
Kennedy played Radon Randell, a quarterback starting over the main character, Alex Moran, in the Spike television series Blue Mountain State. Because Alex Moran does not want to start, he must keep Radon happy during the whole second season (the only season Radon was in). Radon's season ends in the championship game of his lone season when he aggravates a previous shoulder injury. Kennedy reprised his role in the 2016 feature-length film follow-up to the series.
Kennedy had a guest appearance whereas he played a burglar in the new 2013 TV series Legit. He also made an appearance in an episode of Robot Chicken as Kirby and Cal Zapata. Kennedy played a gay inmate and gang leader in My Name Is Earl and a married inmate and ex-con in Raising the Bar. In 2016, he starred in the YouTube Red original show Rhett & Link's Buddy System
Kennedy played Gerald, the cousin of main character James Carter, on the CBS show Rush Hour. He appeared in all episodes of the show before its cancellation in 2016. In 2018, he had a prominent role in the blockbuster film The Meg, alongside Jason Statham, Ruby Rose, and Rainn Wilson.{{cite web |title=Meg: Filming Begins on Giant Shark Movie with Jason Statham |url=http://collider.com/meg-filming-begins-jason-statham-li-bingbing/ |access-date=December 24, 2018 |work=Collider |publisher=Complex Media |date=October 13, 2016 |first=Adam |last=Chitwood}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| rowspan=2| 2003
| S.W.A.T. | Travis | |
| Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood
| Jamie Davis | Video |
| rowspan=2| 2005
| Shackles | Page | Video |
| In the Mix
| Twizzie | |
| 2007
| 4 Life | Sam | Video |
| rowspan=5| 2009
| Aub | |
| Dance Flick
| Security Guard | |
| A Day in the Life
| Ali | |
| Janky Promoters
| House DJ | |
| See Dick Run
| Craig | |
| 2012
| Booker | |
| 2013
| Movie Date | Jealous Boyfriend | Short |
| 2014
| The Divorce Party | Landlord | |
| 2015
| Bad Roomies | Bud | |
| rowspan=2| 2016
| Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland | Radon Randell | |
| FML
| Lou | |
| 2018
| The Meg | DJ | |
| 2019
| Same Difference | Steve | |
| 2020
| Enjoy the Disco | Dancer | Short |
| 2022
| Hip Hop Family Christmas Wedding | Himself | TV movie |
| 2023
| DJ | |
| rowspan=2| 2024
| Roberta's Rules | Casey Washington | Short |
| A Hip Hop Story
| Pastor Simons | |
| 2025
| New Jack Fury | Silkwaan Styles | |
| TBA
| Code 3 | Officer Taggert | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| rowspan=3| 2002
| Josh Langmead | Episode: "Out, Out, Brief Candle" |
| Philly
| Davey Mink | Episode: "San Diego Padre" |
| The Shield
| Lamar Tilton | Episode: "Pilot" & "Cupid & Psycho" |
| 2003
| Corey Mack | Episode: "Shear Stupidity" |
| rowspan=2| 2004
| Trent Osbourne | Episode: "Love Don't Love Nobody" |
| Medical Investigation
| Gordon Kraft | Episode: "Team" |
| rowspan=3| 2005
| Mike Dawson | Episode: "Under the Gun" |
| Love, Inc.
| Jeff | Episode: "Pilot" |
| Desperate Housewives
| Recurring Cast: Season 2 |
| 2005–06
| Big Trickey | Recurring Cast |
| rowspan=3| 2006
| Ron Ashmore | Episode: "Pilot" |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
| Jessie "Dollar" Cleveland | Episode: "Poppin' Tags" |
| Boston Legal
| Dennis Pryor | Episode: "Race Ipsa" |
| 2006–07
| Weeds | Louis "U-Turn" Wardell | Guest: Season 2, Main Cast: Season 3 |
| rowspan=2| 2007
| Ron Cramer | Episode: "Burned" |
| My Name Is Earl
| Jamal | Episode: "The Gangs of Camden County" |
| rowspan=2| 2008
| Sherron Nettles | Episode: "Hang Time" |
| Cold Case
| Michael 'Beamer' Hyacinth '08 | Episode: "Triple Threat" |
| rowspan=2| 2010
| Curtis Mims | Episode: "Fixer" |
| Bones
| Stewart Bonder | Episode: "The Bones on the Blue Line" |
| 2010–11
| Radon Randell | Main Cast: Season 2 |
| 2011
| DeAndre Harmon | Episode: "Unknown Trouble" |
| rowspan=2| 2012
| The Game | Jamel | Episode: "There's No Place Like Home" |
| Puppet Cop
| Police Academy Teacher | Episode: "Episode #1.3" |
| rowspan=4| 2013
| Kirby/Cal Zapata (voice) | Episode: "Choked on a Bottle Cap" |
| Legit
| Machete | Episode: "Justice" |
| Second Generation Wayans
| William Stokes | Episode: "Independence Day" |
| Southland
| Katrell | Episode: "Babel" |
| rowspan=2| 2014
| Chosen | Andre | Episode: "Downward Spiral" |
| Bad Teacher
| Coach Ed | Episode: "Found Money" |
| rowspan=3| 2015
| Jameel | Episode: "Oh Snow You Didn't" |
| Backstrom
| Officer Frank Moto | Main Cast |
| Booze Lightyear
| Guest Star | Episode: "The News on Drugs" |
| 2016
| Gerald Page | Main Cast |
| 2018
| Unsolved | Corey Edwards | Recurring Cast |
| 2019
| Angel City Heroes | Gerald | Episode: "Down but not out" |
| 2021–23
| Duck | Main Cast: Season 1, Recurring Cast: Season 2-3, Guest: Season 4 |
| 2023
| Snowfall | Percy | Episode: "Concrete Jungle" |
=Video games=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;" |
| Year
! Title ! Role |
|---|
| rowspan=2| 2006
| Additional USA VO (voice) |
| Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
| Cuda the Ferocious (voice) |
| rowspan=1| 2023
| Chanda Banda (voice) |
=Web series=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2013
| "Thrift Shop" PARODY | Wanz | Body actor |
| 2013
| "Blurred Lines" PARODY | T.I. | Voice |
| 2016–17
| Maxwell | Main Cast |
Discography
=Studio albums=
- Torn Pages (2017){{cite web |title=Torn Pages by Page Kennedy on Apple Music |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/torn-pages/1205756006 |publisher=Apple Music |date=2017-03-10}}
- Same Page, Different Story (2018){{cite web |title=Same Page, Different Story by Page Kennedy on Apple Music |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/same-page-different-story/1416246039 |publisher=Apple Music |date=2018-08-10}}
- Page (2021){{cite web |title=Page by Page Kennedy on Apple Music |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/page/1551258553 |publisher=Apple Music |date=2021-02-19}}
=Collaborative albums=
=Mixtapes=
- Straight Bars (2017){{cite web |title=Straight Bars Mixtape by Page Kennedy |url=https://www.datpiff.com/Page-Kennedy-Straight-Bars-mixtape.854038.html |publisher=DatPiff
|date=2017-08-18}}
- Straight Bars 2 (2018){{cite web |title=Straight Bars 2 Mixtape by Page Kennedy |url=https://www.datpiff.com/Page-Kennedy-Straight-Bars-2-mixtape.887665.html |publisher=DatPiff
|date=2018-03-08}}
- Straight Bars III (2019){{cite web |title=Straight Bars 3 Mixtape by Page Kennedy |url=https://www.datpiff.com/Page-Kennedy-Straight-Bars-3-mixtape.948452.html |publisher=DatPiff |date=2019-10-03}}
- Straight Bars 4 (2022)
- Straight Bars V (2024)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1191866}}
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Category:African-American male actors
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male television actors
Category:American male rappers