Jacob Ming-Trent

Jacob Ming-Trent


in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Jacob Ming-Trent is an American film, television and stage actor based in New Jersey.

Movies for Jacob Ming-Trent...

Merry Wives
Title: Merry Wives
Character: Falstaff
Released: May 20, 2022
Type: Movie
Experience Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece from the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Set in South Harlem, the play tells the story of the trickster Falstaff and the wily wives who outwit him in a celebration of Black joy, laughter and vitality.
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Reopening Night
Title: Reopening Night
Character: Self
Released: December 20, 2021
Type: Movie
This documentary follows the cast, crew and staff of the world-famous Public Theater as they prepare to mount an all-black adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives,” at the open-air Delacorte Theater in New York City. Contending with the ever-present threat of COVID-19 and one of the rainiest Julys on record, the production marks the return of live theatre following more than a year of closures in the city.
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The Snakes
Title: The Snakes
Character: Timmy
Released: November 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Set in an alternate future where Roe v. Wade has been overturned, a depressed Black woman, deals with the culture of fear by channeling her rage into violent fantasies.
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Title: Only Murders in the Building
Character: Lucien
Released: August 31, 2021
Type: TV
Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.
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R#J
Title: R#J
Character: Lawrence
Released: January 30, 2021
Type: Movie
Told entirely through social media and smartphone screens, this bold adaptation of Romeo and Juliet reinvents the world’s most enduring love story with style and lyricism, with black and brown youth at the heart of it all.
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The Forty-Year-Old Version
Title: The Forty-Year-Old Version
Character: Lamont
Released: January 25, 2020
Type: Movie
Desperate for a breakthrough as she nears the big 4-0, struggling New York City playwright Radha finds inspiration by reinventing herself as a rapper.
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Title: Watchmen
Character: Panda
Released: October 20, 2019
Type: TV
Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.
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Finding Julia
Title: Finding Julia
Character: Scott
Released: April 19, 2019
Type: Movie
An acting student is haunted by the early death of her mother.
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The Possession of Hannah Grace
Title: The Possession of Hannah Grace
Character: Ernie
Released: November 29, 2018
Type: Movie
When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.
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Title: God Friended Me
Character: Justin Block
Released: September 30, 2018
Type: TV
A self-proclaimed "pesky atheist" is encouraged to help strangers by someone claiming to be God who friends him on Facebook.
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Title: New Amsterdam
Character: Minister Reid
Released: September 25, 2018
Type: TV
The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunded and underappreciated hospital, returning it to the glory that put it on the map.
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SuperFly
Title: SuperFly
Character: Frederick "Fat Freddie" Davis
Released: June 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.
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Title: White Famous
Character: Ron Balls
Released: October 15, 2017
Type: TV
Floyd Mooney is a young African-American comedian whose star is on the rise. But the path to stardom is a minefield that Floyd must navigate to maintain his credibility while attempting to become “white famous.”
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Tom Stout
Released: September 8, 2014
Type: Movie
A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.
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Shrek the Musical
Title: Shrek the Musical
Character: Papa Ogre / Straw
Released: September 17, 2013
Type: Movie
Shrek The Musical is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on the 2001 DreamWorks Animation's film Shrek and William Steig's 1990 book Shrek! It was nominated for 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical.
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Title: 30 Rock
Character: Black Nerd
Released: October 11, 2006
Type: TV
Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos around her while chasing her own dream.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Gerry Mitchell
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer
Title: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer
Character: Clint Foreman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.
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Friendship
Title: Friendship
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Craig Waterman likes New Balance shoes, Subway sandwiches, and Marvel movies. He lives in the suburbs with his wife, Tami, and son, Steven. He’s happy to work at Universal Digital, a company that helps brands make their products more habit-forming. Craig sees no reason to change anything or make new friends… until weatherman Brian moves into the neighborhood. Mysterious yet friendly, macho but vulnerable, Brian transforms everything for Craig, but Craig’s obsessive and childlike nature threatens to ruin the friendship, and possibly everything else in his life.