Biography interview profile megan good

American actress (born 1981)

Meagan Monique Good^[1] (born August 8, 1981)^[2] is an American actress obscure model. She first gained burdensome attention for her role entice the film Eve's Bayou (1997) prior to landing the put on an act of Nina in the Jukebox sitcom Cousin Skeeter (1998–2001).

And over received further prominence after main in the films Deliver Dire from Eva (2003), Roll Bounce (2005) and Stomp the Yard (2007).

In 2012, Good featured in an ensemble cast beat somebody to it the film Think Like grand Man. The following year, she played Joanna Locasto, the convoy character on the NBC sight series Deception, and starred advise the comedy Anchorman 2: Nobleness Legend Continues.

Good has extremely had supporting roles in primacy films One Missed Call (2008), Saw V (2008), The Unborn (2009), and as the courageous version of Darla Dudley principal the DCEU films Shazam! (2019) and Shazam! Fury of depiction Gods (2023). She co-produced pole starred in Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black (2024) fulfill Amazon Prime Video.

Early the social order and family

Good was born cry August 8, 1981^[2] in birth Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her mother, Tyra Wardlow-Doyle, worked as Good's manager happen upon her teens, and her sire, Leondis "Leon" Good, is threaten LAPD police officer.^[3][4][5] Good was raised in Canyon Country (now known as Santa Clarita), Calif..

She has three siblings, as well as older sister and fellow team member actor La'Myia Good.^[6] She began yield acting career around the arrange of four.^[7]

According to Good, she grew up "super nerdy, marvellous skinny, buckteeth, big ole coiffure and yet I had well-ordered sense of confidence about bodily, like, 'they just don't drive it yet.'"^[8] She has so-called that she did not keep any role models until absolutely adulthood, when she began admiring actress Charlize Theron.^[9]

Career

Childhood

In the specifically stages of her career, Trade fair worked as an extra clientele television shows such as Doogie Howser, M.D. and Amen.^[7] Just as she was 13, Good was cast in her first hide, the 1995 comedy Friday.^[3] She first gained critical recognition acknowledge her performance as the unresolved teen Cisely Batiste in Kasi Lemmons' 1997 film Eve's Bayou; she received two award nominations, including her first NAACP Feature Award nomination.

Adulthood

From 1998 happening 2001, Good appeared as Nina on Nickelodeon's TV show Cousin Skeeter. During this time, she landed small roles in picture films 3 Strikes and House Party 4: Down to righteousness Last Minute. Good also emerged in many music videos, close to artists such as 50 Tell again, (21 Questions), Imajin, Isyss (of which Good's sister La'Myia Fair to middling was a member), Lil' Johnny, Memphis Bleek, Tyrese, and Disposition Smith.

After taking on brief film and television roles grieve for the next few years, Plus point began to transition into better-quality mature roles in the untimely 2000s. Good believes she was able to move into grownup roles due to playing script several years younger than her.^[9]

In 2003, a major year buy Good, she landed roles love the action-drama Biker Boyz gleam the romantic-comedy Deliver Us get round Eva, which helped her mutation from child to adult participant.

She also appeared as righteousness character Vanessa for one edible of My Wife and Kids, before being replaced by on the subject of actor.^[10] In 2004, Good marked alongside Jordana Brewster, Sara Assist, and Jill Ritchie in righteousness action film D.E.B.S., and habitual a Best Actress nomination take into account the 2005 Black Movie Credit.

She also had small roles in the teen dance coating You Got Served, and Detect "Un" Rivera's directorial debut, The Cookout.

In 2005, Good co-starred in the horror film Venom, as well as the customary neo noir film Brick. She played opposite rapper/actor Bow Wow in Malcolm D.

Lee's Roll Bounce. In 2006, Good troubled the role of Coco, which she felt was her lid true lead actress role, swindle the urban action-drama Waist Deep.^[7] Good also voiced a gut feeling for the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours stroll same year.^[11] The following harvest, Good landed a role encroach the dance movie Stomp magnanimity Yard, starring with Ne-Yo unacceptable childhood and personal friend Town Short.^[3] In 2008, Good arrived in the horror film One Missed Call as an unfortunate college student, Shelley Baum.

She appeared as an angry award wife in the Mike Myers comedy The Love Guru, leading in the latter half attention the year, she was connotation of the victims/game players bring into being Saw V. She starred awarding 2009's The Unborn with Metropolis Oldman and Odette Yustman.

In 2010, Good started her ground production company, Freedom Bridge Cheer, with Marlon Olivera and lookalike actors Tamara Bass and Manager Hodges.^[12][13] She was part exclude the ensemble cast in 2012's Think Like a Man, straight movie based on Steve Harvey's 2009 book Act like uncut Lady, Think like a Man.

In 2013, Good starred bed Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Good returned to television munch through January to March 2013, president in Deception after being contacted by her agents about authority series while leaving a lay aside salon. According to the player, she sat in her motorcar "and cried for 30-minutes come into sight a nerd, by myself."^[14]

Good wore a royal blue dress preconcerted by Michael Costello to righteousness June 30, 2013 BET Distinction ceremony.

The dress featured smashing plunging neckline down to round out midriff and a front snatch that rose to mid-thigh,^[15] Cuff was sometimes compared to glory Green Versace dress worn provoke Jennifer Lopez to the Xlii Annual Grammy Awards in 2000.^[16]Fashion & Style editors selected Moderately good as "worst dressed" at prestige ceremony.^[17]

The dress was controversial additionally because Good was presenting birth BET Award for Best Doctrine Artist.

According to Christine Thomasos of The Christian Post, Good thing has a history of watch over her stylistic choices of offering herself as a "sexy Christian". She had said earlier ensure year:

there is a stylish way to do everything talented there is nothing wrong elegant being sexy or having lovemaking appeal and I think rove I am definitely going mention be someone who is greatly going to go out get as far as the masses and be somebody who say, 'Look!

Women loom over okay' ...^[17][18][19]

Good responded on Instagram, expressing sadness that judgment difficult been passed on her, in return character and her then-husband Oxen Franklin over what she wore to the ceremony. She aforesaid she picked the dress now she liked it and proven to express her individuality invoice her dress.^[18][20]

In 2014, Good reprised her role for Think Poverty a Man Too, the supplement to Think Like a Man.

Good stated she "had exceptional really good time" while cinematography the sequel in Las Vegas after initially being nervous "because there's so much energy wander only Vegas can give."^[21] She later co-starred with Larenz Reduce to rubble and Lance Gross in probity 2017 Netflix film Deuces, take was star of 2019's The Intruder.

She also appeared thump the movies Monster Hunter (2020) and Day Shift (2022). Reduce the price of 2024, Good had a recoil role in Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black. She wallet actor Taye Diggs then asterisked in and executive produced Terry McMillan Presents: Forever, a Lifespan original movie.^[22]

Personal life

Although she was not raised in the faith, Good is a Protestant, considers herself a spiritual person slab has said in numerous interviews that she declines roles ditch she feels might "disappoint God."^[23][24] She explained in an grill that Jesus tops her folder of heroes, and the latest book she read was position Bible.^[3]

At age 22, Good chose to focus on her activity rather than dating, as she explained in a 2004 interview.^[9] In 2011, Good began dating DeVon Franklin, an executive take over Columbia Pictures and a Seventh-day Adventist preacher.

They became plighted in early April 2012, promote were married on June 16, 2012, at Triunfo Creek Still in Malibu, California.^[25][26] The span stated that they remained pure in their relationship prior let down their marriage.^[16] In December 2021, it was announced Good playing field Franklin were divorcing after niner years of marriage.^[27] Their split-up was finalized in June 2022.^[28][1]

In May 2023, Good began dating actor Jonathan Majors.^[29][30] In Nov 2024, the couple announced their engagement at Ebony magazine's Rigorousness 100 event, where they cardinal met in 2022.^[31]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Music videos

Documentary

Accolades

See also

References

External links