'Khleo Thomas' (born 'Khaleed Leon Thomas' on
January 30,
1989) is an
American actor and rapper.
Biography
Khleo was born in
Anchorage,
Alaska, to an
African-American father and a
Jewish mother from
Morocco. His family later moved to
California after they moved to Germany. He has two brothers Khadeem(1994) and Khameel(2000), and sister Khaleea(2004).When he was four years old, he saw a television commercial and decided to pursue an acting career, and was encouraged by his mother. He is good at doing imitations of
Bill Cosby,
Ice Cube,
Pat Sajak, and
Jackie Chan ,
The Rock.
Career
Thomas first appeared in an episode of ''
Kids Say the Darndest Things'' and has been in films such as ''
Holes'' (based on
Louis Sachar's book ''
Holes''), ''
Friday After Next'', ''
Walking Tall'', and ''
Roll Bounce''. During the production of ''Holes'', the actors called him Li'l Khlee Khlee.
On set of the movie
Roll Bounce rapper
Bow Wow and Khleo worked together and now they work together even more because now he is signed to recording label
LBW Entertainment and he is also a well known Hype Man for Bow.
He guest starred in "Poppin' Tags", an episode of '' in 2006. He co-starred on the first episode of the television series ''
Teachers'', but it was canceled after only six episodes.
Music
Khleo was a member of the D-Tent Boys of the cast of ''Holes''. One of their songs, "Dig It," achieved some popularity.
He was featured in
Bow Wow's ''
Fresh Azimiz'' music video. He also performed alongside Bow Wow him on the
Scream IV Tour, at the
Kid's Choice Awards 2006, on the ''
The Tyra Banks Show'', on ''
Jimmy Kimmel Live'', on ''
106 and Park'', and at the ''25th Annual
BET Anniversary'' pre-show.
He is Featured on Bow Wow's "Price Of Fame" album on Track 10 (Bet That).
''
Prince of the West'' is his debut album, that is expected to be released in the summer of 2007 through his
MySpace page.
Rapper Khleo is Rumoured Along with other various artists to be collabrating on
Young Rome's second album
True to my word.He is on the Rumoured track named West Coast.The album is expected in late 2007.
On the artist named
Miss Nana's album
I Got The Hood, Volume 1 she wrote a song named The Shakim Khleo Drop/Let it Rain obviously meaning her LB Dub crew.
Featured on TV series
★ 2006:CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
-Poppin' Tags... Dante
★ 2006:Teachers.
-Substitute... Patrick
★ 2005:The Bernie Mac Show
- Car Wars... Curtis
★ 2004:ER
Forgive and Forget... Brian
★ 2000:City Guys
- Skips, Lies and Radiotapes... Jordan
★ 1999: Family Law
-Games...Lanny Brass
His first music video intitled "Hyphy Luv2" is now available on his myspace page
Images
Filmography
Notes
External links
★
★
Khleo's page at
MySpace