Directed credits
1
Emerging
Beginning to build directing work.

Acting
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Directed credits
1
Emerging
Beginning to build directing work.
TMDB popularity
3.0
Moderate attention
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TMDB ID: 327
IMDb ID: nm0001616
Known for: Acting
Born: December 29, 1974
Age: 51
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1963 - 2026
Years active: 64
Average TMDB rating: 6.55
Wikidata: Q119676
Also known as
Mekhi Thira Phifer • مکی فایفر
Frequent jobs
Mekhi Thira Phifer (born December 29, 1974) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his multi-year role as Dr. Greg Pratt on NBC's long-running medical drama ER and his co-starring role opposite Eminem in the feature film 8 Mile. He was a regular on the Fox crime show Lie to Me portraying the role of Ben Reynolds, before season 3. He was born in in Harlem, New York City, the son of Rhoda Phifer, a high school teacher; he grew up in a single-parent household with his mother. His acting career began in 1995, when Phifer attended an open casting call for director Spike Lee’s Clockers, beating over a thousand others to get the lead role as a narcotics dealer embroiled in a murder cover-up. He followed that role with another in the comedy spoof feature High School High (which also starred his former wife Malinda Williams) and continued by co-starring in the fright flick I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze, Jr. Among Phifer’s other big-screen credits are Soul Food, The Biography of Spud Webb, Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, Tears of a Clown, O (as the titular character Odin a.k.a. O), and the thriller Uninvited Guest (as Silk). He appeared in Impostor as well as Paid in Full, 8 Mile, opposite Eminem and Dawn of the Dead. Phifer has a son, Omikaye, with his ex-wife, actress Malinda Williams. His second son, Mekhi Thira Phifer Jr., was born to his girlfriend Oni Souratha in Los Angeles on October 30, 2007.




Movies directed by Mekhi Phifer.
Highest rated movies linked with Mekhi Phifer.
as Future
as Lewis Johns
as Andre
Co-Executive Producer
as Max
as Mitch
as Ronald 'Strike' Dunham
as Gerald
as Mason Lynch
as Darrien
as Max
as Chaz
Highest rated series linked with Mekhi Phifer.
as Harold Brooks • 9 eps
as Joe Baker • 1 eps
as Kyle Collins • 2 eps
as Nathaniel Lee 'Junior Bunk' Mahoney • 3 eps
as Omar Jones • 4 eps
as Arthur Ellis • 6 eps
as Drake • 1 eps
as Ben Reynolds • 24 eps
as Greg Pratt • 133 eps
as Cousin • 1 eps
as Lyman Ross • 1 eps
as Rex Matheson • 10 eps
Most viewed movie titles linked with Mekhi Phifer.
Most viewed series linked with Mekhi Phifer.
as Lyman Ross • 1 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Joe Baker • 1 eps
as Omar Jones • 4 eps
as Drake • 1 eps
as Arthur Ellis • 6 eps
as Greg Pratt • 133 eps
as Self • 2 eps
as Kyle Collins • 2 eps
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
as Ben Reynolds • 24 eps
as Self • 2 eps
Additional movie credits for Mekhi Phifer.
Movie cast credits for Mekhi Phifer.
as Peter Mosley
as Peter Mosley
as Mason Lynch
as Moreao
as James Henry
as Max Bomer
as Sonny
as Prosecutor A.J. Canton
as Mekhi Phifer
as Best Valentine
as Max
as Gunner
Series cast credits for Mekhi Phifer.
as Arthur Ellis • 6 eps
as Harold Brooks • 9 eps
as Markus Killebrew • 28 eps
as Tommy Brown • 2 eps
as Satch Reyna • 13 eps
as Self - Panelist • 1 eps
as Ambassador Moreton • 5 eps
as Jerusalem • 1 eps
as Joe Baker • 1 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Cousin • 1 eps