Khalil Kain Movies
American character actor
Khalil Kain built a varied and substantial resumé from the early '90s onward, in a dazzling combination of films and television series. Though he debuted as Raheem in director
Ernest Dickerson's urban crime drama
Juice,
Kain quickly broke the mold of roles traditionally offered to young African-American males by branching off into some unusual and variegated arenas. He followed up his
Dickerson work with a turn as Private Roosevelt Hobbs in the
Penny Marshall-directed,
Danny DeVito-headlined service comedy
Renaissance Man (1994), then landed guest appearances in such sitcoms as
Suddenly Susan and
Friends, and a plum role as porno star Venus, in
Dan Ireland's romantic triangle-themed erotic dramedy
The Velocity of Gary (1998).
Kain returned to urban material (albeit
unconventional urban material) opposite rapper
Snoop Dogg in
Dickerson's gruesome haunted-house movie
Bones (2001). He also played Gene in the mockumentary
Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys (2005), headlined by columnist
Barry, actor
John Cleese and footballer
Dan Marino, and played Darnell Wilkes in the sitcom
Girlfriends. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide