Mos Def

60 ^%

Movies Counted: 15
Fresh: 9 Rotten:6
Average Rating: 6.1/10

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Range of Movie T-meters: 11% - 92%
Number of Movies: 32

Box Office Since 2001: $196.8M

Bio: Mos Def (born Dante Terrell Smith on December 11, 1973) is a critically acclaimed rapper and actor. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and is an American Muslim convert. He goes by the stage names Mighty Mos Def, The Freaky Night Watchman, Boogie Man, Black Dante, Dante Beze, Pretty Flaco, and Flaco Bey. Rap career Mos Def began his music career with the short-lived [More...]

Movie Snapshot

Highest Rated

Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006)

92%

Credit: Featured

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Lowest Rated

Civil Brand (2003)

11%

Credit: Actor

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In Theaters
Tomato Icon	Tomatometer Percentage	Movie	Credit	Release Date	Movie Link
	67%	Cadillac Records	Credit: Actor	Release: December 05, 2008	View Details

Opening
Tomato Icon	Tomatometer Percentage	Movie	Credit	Release Date	Movie Link
	67%	Cadillac Records	Credit: Actor	Release: December 05, 2008	View Details

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Filmography

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Filmography
Rating	Title	Credit	Trailers	Photos	Box Office	Year
68%	Be Kind Rewind	Actor	5	21	$11,028,439	2008
N/A	Black August - A Celebration of Hip-Hop and Our Freedom Fighters	Featured	0	0	N/A	2008
N/A	The Brazilian Job	Actor	0	0	N/A	2008
67%	Cadillac Records	Actor	12	56	N/A	2008
N/A	Bernie Worrell - Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth	Featured	0	0	N/A	2007
43%	In Prison My Whole Life	Featured	0	0	N/A	2007
56%	16 Blocks	Music Performer	0	7	$36,883,539	2006
92%	Dave Chappelle's Block Party	Featured	8	27	$11,694,528	2006
N/A	Journey to the End of the Night	Actor	0	0	N/A	2006
N/A	Russell Simmons Presents: Def Poetry Season 5	Host	0	0	N/A	2006
73%	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby	Featured	8	22	$148,213,377	2006
N/A	Alicia Keys - MTV Unplugged	Guest Performer	0	0	N/A	2005
60%	Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Actor	7	48	$51,019,112	2005
67%	Lackawanna Blues	Actor	0	0	N/A	2005
N/A	Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth	Featured	0	0	N/A	2005
N/A	The Devil's Music	Voice Actor	0	0	N/A	2004
N/A	Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Season 3	Host	0	0	N/A	2004
N/A	Shades of Hip Hop - Resurrection	Music Performer	0	0	N/A	2004
N/A	Something the Lord Made	Actor	0	0	N/A	2004
86%	The Woodsman	Actor	1	0	$1,456,291	2004
11%	Civil Brand	Actor	0	6	$123,580	2003
N/A	From the Outside Looking In	Actor	0	0	N/A	2003
73%	The Italian Job	Actor	0	22	$105,996,316	2003
N/A	Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Season 2	Host	0	0	N/A	2003
64%	Brown Sugar	Actor	0	0	$27,186,836	2002

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02-22-08

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02-13-08

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Mos Def photos from Chic…
Mos Def photos from Chicago red carpet on Oct. 13!

10-13-07

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Something the Lord Created

05-01-05

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News

Michel Gondry "Swedes" His Own Be Kind Rewind Trailer
posted by Jen Yamato February 22, 2008
As if bringing the phrase "sweded" into the lexicon wasn't enough, Be Kind Rewind director Michel...

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posted by Gitesh Pandya February 21, 2008
A terrorist attack is played out through multiple perspectives in the high-octane political...

Michel Gondry on Be Kind Rewind: The RT Interview
posted by Sara Schieron February 20, 2008
When RT writer Sara Schieron met master of whimsy Michel Gondry to talk about his ode to home...

Exclusive: Ghostbusters Clip from Be Kind Rewind
posted by Joe Utichi February 15, 2008
Jack Black and Mos Def find something strange in the neighbourhood in this hilarious clip from...

Be Kind Rewind Official Site and New Trailers!
posted by Jeff Giles November 26, 2007
Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind won't reach theaters until January 25, but the film's official...

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