Derek Luke (born April 24, 1974 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American actor. He won the Independent Spirit Award for his big-screen debut performance in the 2002 film Antwone Fisher, directed and produced by Denzel Washington.
Luke was discovered while working at the Studio Emporium gift shop on the Sony studio lot and given the Fisher role, a story which is still repeated on the Sony studio tour. [1]
Luke was born in Jersey City, New Jersey to Maurice Luke, a native of Guyana, and Marjorie Dixon. He has two brothers, Daniel and Maurice, and is a graduate of Linden High School in Linden, NJ. He throws right-handed, but writes left-handed.
Luke married singer-actor Sophia Adella Hernandez in 1998.
...
Created by dipity on Jan 24, 2008
Last updated: 02/14/08 at 12:38 PM
Derek Luke has no followers yet. Be the first one to follow.
Glory Road is a 2006 film released on January 13 2006. The film was released straight to DVD in some countries. The film deals with the events of the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, in which Texas Western College coach Don Haskins led a team with an all-black starting lineup, a first in NCAA history.Several scenes in this movie were filmed at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), which was formerly Texas Western College, and El Paso High School in El Paso, Texas, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jesuit High School in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Chalmette High School in Chalmette, Louisiana.As of February 12, 2006, the film grossed a total of 40.7 million dollars in the domestic Box Office.Glory Road is also the title of Haskins' autobiography, a national bestseller released in 2005 by Hyperion Books. The book details Haskins' early life as a player and coach and the focuses on the 1966 team and the aftermath of the championship, which is...,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385726
Catch a Fire is a 2006 dramatic thriller about terrorism and freedom fighters in apartheid-era South Africa, based on a true story.The screenplay was written by Shawn Slovo. Slovo's father, Joe Slovo appears as a character in the film.The film was shot on location in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique.The film revolves around Patrick Chamusso, a young, apolitical man (played by Derek Luke) who is accused of carrying out an attack against the government, and a police officer, Nic Vos, played by Tim Robbins. Vos is in charge of locating the perpetrators of a recent bomb attack - Patrick is unwillingly swept into this investigation; he, his wife (played by Bonnie Henna), and his family are mistreated and abused by Vos and his government workers. Desperate, he says that he is willing to confess to a crime he did not commit to protect his family from torture.In spite of this, at last the police conclude that Patrick is innocent, and he is released. Fueled by the anger at the injustices...,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437232
Friday Night Lights is the 1990 book and 2004 movie that documents the coach and players of a high school football team and the economically-depressed Texas city of Odessa that supports and is obsessed with them. The Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream book on which it is based was authored by H.G. Bissinger and follows the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team as they made a run towards the state championship. A television series inspired by the movie — also called Friday Night Lights — premiered on October 3, 2006 on NBC. This movie ranked number 37 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies.
Bissinger followed the team for the entire 1988 season, which culminated in a loss in the State
semifinals against Carter High School from Dallas, Texas who went on to win the state championship. However, the book also deals with — or alludes to — a number of secondary political and social issues existing in...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390022
Spartan is a political thriller film written and directed by David Mamet. It was released in U.S. and Canada in March 2004.Robert Scott (Kilmer) is a coldly efficient secret agent who trains special forces recruits for the US Government. When Laura Newton (Bell), the Harvard-educated daughter of a high-ranking elected government official disappears, Scott is brought in to find her. He is aided on his assignment by one of his trainees, Curtis (Luke), and special forces knife fighting instructor Jackie Black (Texada). The investigation takes him from Boston into the heart of a sexual slavery ring operating out of Dubai, as he navigates through a number of twists, double-crosses, and tested loyalties along the way....,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360009
Pieces of April is a 2003 movie written and directed by Peter Hedges. It stars Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt, Alison Pill, Derek Luke, Sean Hayes, and Lillias White. Holmes plays a girl living in New York City who — although she is estranged from her dysfunctional family and doesn't know much about cooking — invites them to her small apartment for a potentially disastrous Thanksgiving dinner.Patricia Clarkson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in this film.Pieces of April is a low-budget independent film. It was shot in just 16 days on a budget of $100,000.,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311648
Antwone Fisher is a 2002 American drama about a man who confronts his traumatic past with the support of a naval psychiatrist. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. He was physically abused by his foster mother and sexually abused by a woman who was supposed to be looking after him when he was six. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew. The film is inspired by a true story, with Antwone Q. Fisher credited as the screenwriter and based on his autobiographical book Finding Fish.
The movie was directed by Denzel Washington, marking his directing debut. He also stars in the film as the psychiatrist, Jerome Davenport, alongside Hollywood newcomers Derek Luke, who played the title role (and personally knew the real Antwone Fisher), and ex-model Joy Bryant, as Fisher's girlfriend. It was produced by Denzel Washington, Nancy Paloian, and Todd Black,...,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168786
Derek Luke was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Hudson County
Update Sources