Person
Tavis Smiley
Acting · Born 1964-09-13 · Gulfport, Mississippi, USA
Biography
Tavis Smiley is an American talk show host and author. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles.
Known for
The Daily Show
Self
Meet the Press
1947
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
The Colbert Report
Self
Dancing with the Stars
Self - Contestant
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Boondocks
2005
Tavis Smiley
Self - Host
American Dreams
Thurgood Marshall
The Parkers
1999
Filmography
- 2022Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of FreedomSelf (archive footage)
- 2018Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.Self (archive footage)
- 2016Protection Not Protest: The People of Standing Rock
- 2012SinisterAnchor
- 2011Fear of a Black RepublicanSelf
- 2010Still BillSelf
- 2009StandSelf
- 2005The Boondocks
- 2005The Colbert ReportSelf
- 2005Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power GenerationSelf
- 2005Dancing with the StarsSelf - Contestant
- 2004Fatherhood
- 2004Tavis SmileySelf - Host
- 2003Real Time with Bill MaherSelf
- 2002American DreamsThurgood Marshall
- 1999The Parkers
- 1996The Daily ShowSelf
- 1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- 1947Meet the Press
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