Doug E Doug

Born: 7 January 1970
Where: Brooklyn, New York

Doug began his entertainment career as a stand-up comic at age the age of 17. In the 1990s he emerged as an actor, writer, and director, with a particular flair for comedy.

His film debut came in l990 when he earned his Screen Actors Guild card by speaking one line in Spike Lee's film Mo' Better Blues. The following year, he appeared in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever.

Best known in feature films for his acting work in Cool Runnings, he also became a television star during the second half of the decade on Bill Cosby's sitcom Cosby.

Doug later wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the spoof Citizen James; then portrayed Harlan, the comically paranoid radio personality in Eight Legged Freaks.