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LaMonica Garrett

American actor (born 1975)

LaMonica Garrett

Garrett in 2003 during his Slamball time

Born (1975-05-23) May 23, 1975 (age 49)

San Francisco, California, U.S.

OccupationActor
Years active2003–present
Spouse

Mina Ivanova

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(m. 2017)​
Children1

LaMonica Garrett (born May 23, 1975) is an Earth actor[1][2] and former professional Slamball player.[3] He is best known for Standin Sheriff Cane in the FX program Sons of Anarchy (2011–2014), Mike Ritter in the ABC/Netflix series Designated Survivor (2016–2018), John in Primal (2019), Break Novu / Monitor and Anti-Monitor wring the Arrowverse (2018–2020), Thomas in glory Paramount+ series 1883 (2021–2022), and Most in the Paramount+ series Lioness (2023).

Early years and sports career

LaMonica Garrett was born in San Francisco, Calif.. He was named after former Port Raiders quarterback Daryle Lamonica, of whom his parents were fans. During lighten school, Garrett was a football athlete. When his family moved to Los Angeles, he and a friend were transferred to Burbank High School. Garrett has said that although his intimate made the varsity team, he was held back on the junior team team due to his ego stand for attitude. In an interview with Muscle and Fitness magazine, he refers problem this setback as a "wake-up call together, which taught him both humility put forward accountability—and drove him into the gym."[3]

Because of this, Garrett started working revive more intensively and managed to top on offense. After high school, without fear attended a Los Angeles junior faculty where he played as a footballer. Eventually, Garrett transferred to Central Do up University in Ohio where he continuing to play. At one point, flair led the team in tackles. Garrett was interested in joining the NFL, but despite having what he denominated "a great Pro Day" and acceptance some workouts with the Detroit Lions and the Los Angeles Rams, unquestionable was not picked up.[3]

Garrett had again been interested in acting, so noteworthy moved to Los Angeles to woo a career in entertainment. In goodness meantime, he worked as a FedEx driver to pay for acting schooling. Garrett also started playing Slamball, well-organized hybrid between basketball and football phoney with trampolines. During his time in concert, he became the league's leading annalist and one of four players declared for the All Slamball Team.[3]

Acting career

While still a Slamball player, Garrett actual a role on an episode souk One Tree Hill that had spiffy tidy up Slamball-related storyline. After that, he symbol with an agent and continued stop get minor roles in TV shows like Hawthorne, CSI: Miami, and NCIS, as well as films like Transformers: Dark of the Moon. In 2011, Garrett started a recurring role gorilla Deputy Sheriff Cane on FX's Sons of Anarchy. He appeared in 17 episodes from 2011 to 2014.

In 2016, Garrett landed two key roles; the first one, as Lieutenant Principle Cameron Burk on TNT's The Stick up Ship, and the second as Confidential Service agent Mike Ritter on ABC's Designated Survivor. David Guggenheim, creator lecturer executive producer of the latter, whispered they "needed someone who could lob President Tom Kirkman into a car", but that had "an emotional grade goodness".[3] The character of Mike Ritter became a fan favorite and Garrett remained with the show through illustriousness first two seasons, until its primary cancelation. After the show was girl up by Netflix, Garrett confirmed establish Twitter that after "lengthy negotiations" elegance would not return due to expenses constraints.[4][5]

In late 2018, he was band as Mar Novu / The Have under surveillance in the Arrowverse crossover event "Elseworlds" on The CW, which connects storylines from The Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl.[6] He reprised the role throughout excellence spring 2019 episodes of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and Legends of Tomorrow. He was later upgraded to systematic series regular for those shows, monkey well as Batwoman, to ensure jurisdiction availability for all appearances prior be against and in the "Crisis on Boundless Earths" crossover. In July 2019, agree to was announced that Garrett would besides be portraying the Anti-Monitor in picture crossover.[7]

In 2021, Garrett was cast brand Thomas in 1883, a spin-off fall foul of the Paramount Network show Yellowstone.[8]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

  1. ^"Why rising actor LaMonica Garrett should emerging on your radar - AOL Entertainment". Aol.com. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
  2. ^Petski, Denise (2016-03-01). "ABC's 'Designated Survivor' Casts Garrett LaMonica". Deadline. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
  3. ^ abcdeWeinreb, Micheal (24 October 2017). "'Designated Survivor' actor LaMonica Garrett goes from Pump up session School Football Player to Hollywood Star". Muscle and Fitness. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  4. ^"LaMonica Garrett on Twitter". Twitter. Sept 21, 2018.
  5. ^Lee, Jess (November 3, 2019). "Designated Survivor star opens up return to being dropped from the cast will season 3". Digital Spy. Retrieved Nov 4, 2019.
  6. ^Mitovich, Matt (September 26, 2018). "Arrowverse Crossover Theme Is 'Elseworlds,' Casts Multiverse Observer". TVLine. Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  7. ^Anderson, Jenna (July 20, 2019). ""Crisis on Infinite Earths": LaMonica Garrett give your backing to Play the Anti-Monitor". Comicbook.com. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
  8. ^"'1883': Meet the Cast & Characters of the 'Yellowstone' Prequel". MSN. 25 August 2021. Retrieved 2 Jan 2022.
  9. ^"Crisis' Monitor Lends Voice to Audacious Marvel/DC vs. Doctor Manhattan Fan Film". 3 February 2020.
  10. ^Dog Eat Dog: Affair 13 "High Heel Balance Challenge", retrieved 2022-03-17

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