Blake Shields Movies
Blond-haired actor Blake Shields began his career with bit roles in such popular television series as Silk Stalkings, The West Wing, and Boy Meets World before transitioning into features in the independent film Crime and Punishment in Suburbia, with a more substantial role opposite Freddie Prinze Jr. marking his first leading role in a wide-release feature. Born in Ithaca, NY, Shields traveled the globe with his family as a youngster before they decided to settle in Israel for a five-year stretch. Upon returning stateside, Shields' family moved to Boise, ID, and the aspiring young actor ingratiated himself with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and the Washington Street Players. A stint at the American Academy of Arts in Los Angeles found Shields starring in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Burn This, and Hamlet among others, with performances as a street singer in Old Town Pasadena and Venice Beach helping the up-and-comer to better develop his vocal skills.After rebelling against the high-school administration in New Port South and joining the Judd Apatow crew in episodes of Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, Shields found regular roles in HBO's Carnivàle and Showtime's Sleeper Cell, showing marked maturity while helping to solidify the foundation of an enduring career. In 2007, Shields was cast on the New Orleans-set cop show K-Ville, but the series proved to be short-lived. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- 2007
The Fox cop drama K-Ville was set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, hence its title (the designation "K-Ville" was among the graffiti found scrawled on the walls left standing in the wake of the disaster). The focus was on the activities of the NOPD's Felony Action Squad, led by short-tempered Capt. James Embry (John Carroll Lynch). Heading the cast was Anthony Anderson as police detective Marlin Boulet, who, assigned to keep the peace in his old, now devastated Ninth-Ward neighborhood, played by his own rules, never dodged a confrontation with either criminals or colleagues, and swigged bourbon with cavalier abandon. He was also a compassionate family man, though he found it very difficult to carry on a long-distance relationship with his wife Ayana (Elise Neal) and daughter Tawni (Jiya Fowler), who'd been evacuated to Atlanta. Boulet's new partner was the mysterious Trevor Cobb (Cole Hauser), a "loose-cannon" veteran of the Afghan War whose previous criminal record had been fortuitously washed away in the hurricane, a secret that Boulet was willing to keep from the higher-ups so long as Cobb stayed "on task." The rest of the Felony Action Squad ran the usual TV-stereotype gamut, including resident jokester "Glue Boy" Gooden (Blake Shields) and sole female member "Love Tap" LeBeau. Essentially a standard buddy-cop series laced with contemporary cynicism, the location-filmed K-Ville debuted September 17, 2007. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anthony Anderson, Cole Hauser, (more)
The debut film from director Joseph A. Pineda, Going Down is a raunchy independent comedy starring Jay Michael Ferguson and Josh Blake as two pals who find themselves mired in a fiasco in the aftermath of a wild party. With Jack's (Ferguson) parents due back in just a few hours, the guys find themselves running ragged to not only get the house in order but also take care of the two dead bodies that mysteriously made their way into the suburban abode. As the clock ticks, the mishaps mount. The film also features appearances by Ed Begley Jr. and Saved by the Bell's Dennis Haskins. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jay Michael Ferguson, Josh Blake, (more)
Teen movie icon John Hughes returns to the genre he helped revolutionize as producer of the first screenplay written by his son James Hughes. Maddox (Blake Shields) is an intelligent but moody teenager growing up in a suburb of Chicago. High school student Maddox believes schools aren't designed to educate so much as they're used to control young people and bend them to the will of the state. Maddox wants to throw off the yoke of the school's authority, especially after he hears tales of a student named Stanton who attended the same school years before; Stanton openly defied the school system and was sent to a mental hospital for his troubles. Maddox and his friends try to find out the truth about the legendary Stanton as they plot a large-scale rebellion of their own. New Port South features a cast of young faces, including Brad Eric Johnson, Will Estes, Melissa George, and Gabriel Mann; the film also marks the directorial debut of Kyle Cooper, who previously directed music videos and designed title sequences for a number of major motion pictures. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1999
Shades of Some Like It Hot! To avoid getting pummelled by campus bully Luther (Andrew Levitas) and his stooges, Eric (Will Friedle) and Jack (Matthew Lawrence) disguise themselves as women, rechristening themselves "Shante" and "Lala." The plot thickens when Luther takes a liking to "Lala" and begins hitting on her--er--him. Elsewhere, Topanga (Danielle Fishel) is appalled when Cory (Ben Savage) redecorates their apartment, using nothing but several cans of bright yellow paint. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
