Jean-Claude La Marre

Jean-Claude La Marre
Jean-Claude La Marre speaking at press conference in Los Angeles on October 9, 2009
Born February 2,1973
Brooklyn, New York City, United States
Occupation Actor, producer, director, writer

Jean-Claude La Marre is an American writer, director, and film and television actor. His film credits include Malcolm X, Dead Presidents, Gang of Roses[1] and Go for Broke. On television, he has guest-starred on New York Undercover, Law & Order, and NYPD Blue.

Biography

La Marre is an American of Haitian descent.[2]

Films

In 1994, La Marre plays as Jake in Fresh. La Marre's Color of the Cross, is a film that portrays Jesus as a black man, and implies that Christ's persecution was a racially motivated hate crime.[3]

In 2007, LaMarre set up a distribution output deal for his film label, Nulite Media Group. Among the films released through the label are the revisionist western, Gang of Roses, Trapped: Haitian Nights, Broom Wedding, and Nora's Hair Salon, with a cameo by Whitney Houston in the film. LaMarre also directed David Carradine in his final American made film, Brothers in Arms for Sony.

In 2018, he will direct the upcoming film "Gangland" with the worldwide superstar Tamar Braxton.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Gang of Roses". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ "Jean-Claude La Marre". The New York Times.
  3. ↑ Johnson, Jason B. (November 7, 2006). "What race was Jesus? 'Color of the Cross' puts a different face on..." San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 10, 2010.
  4. ↑ Tamar Braxton in the Jean Claude La Marre’s Gangland movie on Imdb.com
  5. ↑ Tamar Braxton post photo from gangland movie set on celebrityinsider.org



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