Asante Duah Ma'at (born October 20, 2001), known professionally as
Asante Blackk, is an American actor. He is best known for his role in
the miniseries When They See Us (2019), for which he received a
Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He is a series regular in the fourth
season of the television series This Is Us (2019) for which he was
nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award.Blackk began acting
as an elementary school student at Judith P. Hoyer Montessori School;
his first role was Mowgli in a performance of The Jungle Book. One of
his first professional roles was in "How I Learned to Be a Kid" at The
Howard Theatre in Washington, after which he got an agent. Blackk
originally auditioned for the role of portraying Korey Wise, one of
the exonerated members of the Central Park Five, in the dramatized
miniseries When They See Us, but instead he was cast as the 14 year
old Kevin Richardson. The role earned him an Primetime Emmy Award
nomination, making him one of the youngest nominees in its history. In
2019, he played Malik, a teenage father dating Deja (Lyric Ross), in
season 4 of the series This Is Us.He is the nephew of actress Samira
Wiley.
Asante Blackk, is an American actor. He is best known for his role in
the miniseries When They See Us (2019), for which he received a
Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He is a series regular in the fourth
season of the television series This Is Us (2019) for which he was
nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award.Blackk began acting
as an elementary school student at Judith P. Hoyer Montessori School;
his first role was Mowgli in a performance of The Jungle Book. One of
his first professional roles was in "How I Learned to Be a Kid" at The
Howard Theatre in Washington, after which he got an agent. Blackk
originally auditioned for the role of portraying Korey Wise, one of
the exonerated members of the Central Park Five, in the dramatized
miniseries When They See Us, but instead he was cast as the 14 year
old Kevin Richardson. The role earned him an Primetime Emmy Award
nomination, making him one of the youngest nominees in its history. In
2019, he played Malik, a teenage father dating Deja (Lyric Ross), in
season 4 of the series This Is Us.He is the nephew of actress Samira
Wiley.
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