Common
ActingTotal Credits
156
Acting
150
First Credit
1975
Latest Credit
2026
Scrubs
Common
2001
Silo
Robert Sims
2023
Chappelle's Show
Actor
2003
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Self - Presenter
1992
The Hate U Give
Uncle Carlos
2018
Never Have I Ever
Dr. Chris Jackson
2020
The Simpsons
Common (voice)
1989
Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out
Actor
2005
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Self
2016
Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives
Actor
2015
The Chi
Rafiq
2018
MTV Video Music Awards
Self - Presenter
1984
An American Girl Story - Melody 1963: Love Has to Win
Executive Producer
2016
Hell on Wheels
Elam Ferguson
2011
The Price of Protest
Self (archive footage)
2019
American Gangster
Turner Lucas
2007
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Westley
2020
Unity
Narrator (voice)
2015
Wick Is Pain
Self
2025
Selma
James Bevel · Songs
2014
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Self
2007
John Wick: Chapter 2
Cassian
2017
Now You See Me
Evans
2013
Girlfriends
Omar
2000
Megan Leavey
Gunny Martin
2017
Chasing Trane
Self - Musician
2017
Marshall
Lyricist
2017
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
Self
2011
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
Self (archive footage)
2022
The Tale
Martin
2018
One World: Together at Home
Self
2020
Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records
Self
2013
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Coach Cal
2012
American Masters
Self
1986
The Wiz Live!
The Bouncer
2015
Ocean's Eight
Common
2018
Beef
Self
2003
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Executive Producer
2025
Hunter Killer
RA John Fisk
2018
StoryBots: Answer Time
Mr. Wonderful
2022
Saint Judy
Benjamin Adebayo
2018
Smallfoot
Stonekeeper (voice)
2018
Girls Trip
Common
2017
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
Self
2005
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
Self
2012
Street Kings
Coates
2008
Brown Sugar
Self
2002
Fraggle Rock: Rock On!
Self
2020
Just Wright
Scott McKnight
2010
The Informer
Grens
2019
Wanted
The Gunsmith
2008
Smokin' Aces
Sir Ivy
2006
Run All Night
Mr. Price
2015
Lip Sync Battle
Self
2015
Barbershop: The Next Cut
Jabari
2016
The Mindy Project
Security Guard
2012
Happy Feet Two
Seymour (voice)
2011
Entourage
Common
2015
Being Charlie
Travis
2016
Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than Life
Self
2007