Aqeel Ash-Shakoor

Aqeel Ash-Shakoor


in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
Aqeel Taahir Ash-Shakoor was born in Murfreesboro, NC. He is known for Law & Order: SVU Season 24 (NBC) Precinct Commander Inspector Borsits; FBI Season 5 (CBS) as Geoff, MTA Mechanic; Chicago Med Season 4 (NBC) as Shrapnel Man and Season 7 as FBI Agent Russo; The Staircase (HBO Max) as State Police 2; and A League of Their Own (Prime Original Series) as Pastor Donald Turner.

In 2022, in his first major industry big screen production, Aqeel played Frank, a construction worker with great concerns, in "On Sacred Ground." In 2023, Aqeel will play James Farmer in the John Ridley directed "Shirley," based on the life of Shirley Chisholm, played by Regina King.

Movies for Aqeel Ash-Shakoor...

Hayseed
Title: Hayseed
Character: Correction Officer
Released: April 17, 2023
Type: Movie
Following the discovery of a reverend’s body, a retired detective uncovers corruption and murder in a Rust Belt community.
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On Sacred Ground
Title: On Sacred Ground
Character: Frank
Released: January 13, 2023
Type: Movie
Based on the true events during the 2016 construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota on land that is owned by the Lakota “Sioux” Tribe. The film follows Daniel, a journalist and Afghanistan War military veteran, and Elliot, an oil company executive, who find themselves on opposite sides of the fight during the construction of the contentious pipeline.
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Street Code Broken
Title: Street Code Broken
Character: Pastor Dobbins
Released: April 15, 2022
Type: Movie
It follows two friends who come to a crossroads when one of them decides that street life isn't what he wants.
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These Men for Everybody
Title: These Men for Everybody
Character: Lawyer
Released: January 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer; but sometimes it's hard to tell them apart. When disloyalty, deceit, jealousy and betrayal infiltrate a circle of close friends, secrets are revealed. Bonds are broken, lives are destroyed, everyone is out for revenge and the only person left to trust is yourself.
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Cain and Abel
Title: Cain and Abel
Character: Willie
Released: December 21, 2021
Type: Movie
The traumas of childhood differences and disappointments leads two brothers on totally different paths. Finding their way back to one another, will the childhood traumas they've endured be too much and drive them even further apart?
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He Played Me
Title: He Played Me
Character: Father
Released: July 20, 2021
Type: Movie
This is a TRUE STORY of how lust, love, lies, and sex can lead you down a dark path full of passion, jealousy, hate, betrayals, and ultimately your demise. Yazmin has been in a sexless, loveless marriage for the past two years. She is content but not happy. That is until the charming and powerful Jai comes strolling into her life. He is everything she desires in a man; charming, handsome and with just the right amount of street swag. Little does Yazmin know; Jai is not the man he portrays himself to be. Jai is controlling, abusive and used to getting what he wants by using his power and money to control the people around him. When their two worlds collide, a whirlwind romance will quickly turn into the fight of Yazmin's life.
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Tina and Lori
Title: Tina and Lori
Character: Detective Bryons
Released: March 11, 2021
Type: Movie
Two young girls ready for college find themselves and unpredictable situation when they have to do the unthinkable to survive going to the lives of two young girls who want college and everything and one small situation makes it crazy
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Jumanji: Level One
Title: Jumanji: Level One
Character: Jumanji (voice)
Released: January 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Set in 1869, two children receive a mysterious game after their father goes missing in the jungles of Africa. They unravel both the secret of their father’s disappearance and the origin of Jumanji. See how it all began.
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Turn of the Cheek
Title: Turn of the Cheek
Character: Thomas Green
Released: September 18, 2020
Type: Movie
Teen son of black couple is murdered during a robbery. Murderer gets 40 years and has cute son (6-8yrs). Mother of murdered son wants to take-in/adopt the boy, husband objects. Kid's dad objects.
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One Sweet Night
Title: One Sweet Night
Character: Hewitt Watson
Released: February 15, 2020
Type: Movie
'One Sweet Night' is a short film based on the tragic true story of Doctor Ossian and Gladys Sweet, a prominent young Black couple in 1920's Detroit.
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Fireworks Fireworks
Title: Fireworks Fireworks
Character: Mike
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Every year on the 4th of July, local rapper Jackpot The Juice, who plays a high octane version of himself, is a self indulgent wanna be rapper famed for putting on a super firework show every single year.
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Title: Chicago Med
Character: FBI Agent Russo
Released: November 17, 2015
Type: TV
An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases inspired by topical events, forging fiery relationships in the pulse-pounding pandemonium of the emergency room.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Precinct Commander
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.