Mekhi Phifer Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Girlfriend, Family, Career & More)

Mekhi Phifer is an American actor who was playing NBC’s long-running medical drama ER as Dr. Greg Pratt until 2008 and had a role in the feature film 8 Mile co-starring with actor/rapper Eminem in the year 2002. He was in the Fox crime show Lie to Me and was a recurring cast member in the role of Ben Reynolds before season 3 and also in Torchwood: Miracle Day as CIA officer Rex Matheson.

Mekhi Phifer Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Girlfriend, Family, Career & More)

Personal Details

Full Name Mekhi Thira Phifer
Nick Name Mekhi Phifer
Date of Birth 29 December 1974
Age 48 years as of January 2023
Birth Place Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
Residence Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
Ethnicity Black
Religion Christian
Nationality American
Occupations Actor
Education Not known
Net Worth USD 1.3 Million as of 2022
Marital Status Married
Debut
  • TV: Models Inc. (1995)
  • Movie: Clockers (1995)

Physical Appearance

Eye Color Black
Hair Color Black
Chest 42 Inches
Waist 34 Inches
Biceps 14 Inches
Height 5’9″ Feet
Weight 81 kg

Personal Life (Family, Friends, Girlfriends, Children)

Father  Not Known
Mother Rhoda Phifer
Sibling Not Known
Girlfriend/ Wife
  • Malinda Williams (1999-2003)
  • Reshelet Barnes (2013)
Childers Omikaye Phifer, Mekhi Thira Phifer Jr

Early life, Family, and Relationship

Mekhi Phifer was born on 29th December 1974 and was born in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA. Mekhi Thira Phifer is the birth name of Mekhi Phifer. He grew up with his single parent, his mother, Rhoda Phifer who was a high-school teacher.

He has a son with his first wife and actress Malinda Williams. His second son was with Oni Souratha in Los Angeles in the year of 2007. Phifer married his longtime girlfriend Reshelet Barnes in Beverly Hills, California on the 30th March of 2013. He was the winner of the Celebrity Poker Showdown Championship defeating his opponent Neil Patrick Harris during the fourth season in the year 2004.

He has acted on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the Love Our Children USA charity. Mekhi is also the chairman of the board of The Vine Group USA trustees. He works for a non-profit organization established in the year 2000 to give educational resources to the universities of Africa. He signed up with Full Tilt Poker and has his own well on a poker forum.

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Success and career

Mekhi Phifer started it all with an audition at an open casting call for director Spike Lee’s Clockers in the year 1995 and also was selected for the lead role in it working with Harvey Keitel and Delroy Lindo he had critical recognition.

He is known for his compelling performance as Strike a young New Jersey drug dealer who is involved in a murder cover-up and his impressive screen debut had shown him in the comedy spoof High School High in the year 1996. Then, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer in the year 1998 which is a Columbia/Tristar thriller. He co-starred with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. He also starred in Soul Food in the year of 1997.

 

Mekhi Phifer Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Girlfriend, Family, Career & More)

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