David J. Cork

David J. Cork


in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
David J. Cork is an actor, writer, singer and film maker from Indianapolis, Indiana. As a child, David was a member of the Indianapolis Children's Choir, allowing him to sing at Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House at an early age. Once at Broad Ripple High School, David began exploring acting and soon after started performing in community theater. David began his college career at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Midway though his second year, he transferred to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he completed his BFA in Acting. Since arriving in New York City, David has not only appeared in numerous commercials, plays, television shows, and movies, but became a pioneer in actors creating their own work. His first written work, Bi: The Webseries, featured David as the lead role and received public attention once featured in publications like The Huffington Post, NBC OUT and Now This. Since then, David has gone on to appear in more productions including Gun Hill (BET), Mapplethorpe (HULU), The Breeding (HBO NYLFF 2018), WuTang: An American Saga (HULU), City on a Hill (SHOWTIME), and was a member of ABC’s Discover Showcase in 2019. David has made it his mission to take on and create work that is connected to further exploring the complexities of Black men and people of color. David is currently in post production on No Homo | No Hetero, a documentary exploring the lives of sexually fluid black men and recently began making strides as an HIV/AIDS activist, working to create community events evoking Black “pozitivity.” It is through his art and service that David strives to connect all of humanity to the beauty their vulnerability.

Movies for David J. Cork...

Birder
Title: Birder
Released: August 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Birdwatcher Kristian Brooks invades a nude queer campground on a remote lake in the New Hampshire wilds. He wears whatever he needs to ensnare the locals in his dark fetish in this nightmarish erotic thriller, and consent has never been more deadly.
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Loud & Longing
Title: Loud & Longing
Character: Carey
Released: June 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Lucy and Lucien are two childhood friends who share a deeply troubled past and struggle to maintain their sanity and sobriety as they cut their teeth in the New York City arts & theater scene. As their breakout moment arrives, both are forced to grapple with a legacy of childhood trauma, addiction, and loss. They must rely on their chosen family of artists and sex workers to help bring them through their dark night of the soul.
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Nana's Boys
Title: Nana's Boys
Character: Amari Lewis
Released: November 11, 2022
Type: Movie
An intimate peek into the relationship of two black gay men. On the morning of his 30th birthday, Amari struggles to make decisions on what’s next and defining his purpose. Q is on track become the youngest partner at his law firm and plans an elaborate soiree to celebrate this milestone of his long-time partner. The day takes a rattling turn when an explosion cuts off utilities across New York City and forces the city into a mandatory lockdown. Their relationship is tested as the couple grapples with memories that could shatter their plans altogether.
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She's Clean
Title: She's Clean
Released: October 6, 2022
Type: Movie
From the comfort of her bathroom, a resilient woman tries to marry her desires for sexual freedom with emotional intimacy by showering with all her dates. Maybe just enjoying the ride is as intimate as it's going to get?
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Fever
Title: Fever
Released: March 18, 2022
Type: Movie
A psychological thriller that follows Jay, who after a series of violent events, escapes his racist family to embark on a new life with his Black boyfriend, Andre. While taking a pit stop to celebrate Andre’s mother’s 50th birthday, Jay’s mental health unravels as he faces the realities of his interracial relationship and the dangers of his whiteness.
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Ellis by Himself
Title: Ellis by Himself
Character: Ellis
Released: August 31, 2021
Type: Movie
Isolated during a pandemic, a man is forced to confront his mental health.
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Title: Power Book III: Raising Kanan
Character: Richie Soundz
Released: July 18, 2021
Type: TV
Set in South Jamaica, Queens, in 1991, this prequel to "Power" revolves around the coming of age of Kanan Stark.
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Title: Run the World
Character: Chris Cabrera
Released: May 16, 2021
Type: TV
The story of a group of Black women who work, live, and play in Harlem as they strive for world domination. They're not only surviving – but thriving together.
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Title: P-Valley
Character: Dr. Dante Sullivan
Released: July 12, 2020
Type: TV
Down deep in the Mississippi Delta, Trap music meets film noir in this kaleidoscopic story of a little-strip-club-that-could and the big characters who come through its doors—the hopeful, the lost, the broken, the ballers, the beautiful, and the damned.
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Title: Modern Love
Character: Paramedic #1
Released: October 18, 2019
Type: TV
An unlikely friendship. A lost love resurfaced. A marriage at its turning point. A date that might not have been a date. An unconventional new family. These are unique stories about the joys and tribulations of love, each inspired by true events.
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Title: The Politician
Character: Franklin
Released: September 27, 2019
Type: TV
Payton has known since childhood that he's going to be president. First he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape: high school.
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Title: Wu-Tang: An American Saga
Character: Kenny Smith
Released: September 4, 2019
Type: TV
In the early 1990s in New York, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a visionary musician named Bobby Diggs aka The RZA begins to form a super group of a dozen young, black men, who will eventually rise to become one of the unlikeliest success stories in American music history.
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Title: City on a Hill
Character: Male Juror
Released: June 16, 2019
Type: TV
In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.
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Mapplethorpe
Title: Mapplethorpe
Character: The Catch
Released: March 1, 2019
Type: Movie
A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.
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Stoke
Title: Stoke
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: Movie
A struggling tourist hires two wannabe tour guides to take her to an active volcano.
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The Breeding
Title: The Breeding
Character: Amandi
Released: September 7, 2018
Type: Movie
An erotic thriller about a young artist whose obsession with a taboo fetish leads to life altering consequences.
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Title: Younger
Character: Jimmy Z
Released: March 31, 2015
Type: TV
Liza Miller, a suddenly single stay-at-home mother, tries to get back into the working world, only to find it’s nearly impossible to start at the bottom at 40-year old. When a chance encounter convinces her she looks younger than she is, Liza tries to pass herself off as 26 and lands a job as an assistant at Empirical Press. Now she just has to make sure no one finds out the secret only she and her best friend Maggie share.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Okello 'Kel' Okoro
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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Title: Blue Bloods
Character: Winslow Martin
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: TV
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.