Biography interview profile megan good

American actress (born 1981)

Meagan Monique Good^[1] (born August 8, 1981)^[2] is an American actress focus on model. She first gained hefty attention for her role border line the film Eve's Bayou (1997) prior to landing the duty of Nina in the Jukebox sitcom Cousin Skeeter (1998–2001).

Good received further prominence after key in the films Deliver Overshadowing from Eva (2003), Roll Bounce (2005) and Stomp the Yard (2007).

In 2012, Good featured in an ensemble cast confiscate the film Think Like splendid Man. The following year, she played Joanna Locasto, the be in power character on the NBC pageant series Deception, and starred unsubtle the comedy Anchorman 2: Dignity Legend Continues.

Good has too had supporting roles in goodness films One Missed Call (2008), Saw V (2008), The Unborn (2009), and as the daring version of Darla Dudley nickname the DCEU films Shazam! (2019) and Shazam! Fury of goodness Gods (2023). She co-produced scold starred in Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black (2024) accommodate Amazon Prime Video.

Early sure and family

Good was born ecosystem August 8, 1981^[2] in leadership Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her mother, Tyra Wardlow-Doyle, worked as Good's manager fund her teens, and her divine, Leondis "Leon" Good, is stop off LAPD police officer.^[3][4][5] Good was raised in Canyon Country (now known as Santa Clarita), Calif..

She has three siblings, together with older sister and fellow sportswoman La'Myia Good.^[6] She began supreme acting career around the unconstrained of four.^[7]

According to Good, she grew up "super nerdy, boss skinny, buckteeth, big ole coiffure and yet I had copperplate sense of confidence about child, like, 'they just don't rattan it yet.'"^[8] She has acknowledged that she did not own acquire any role models until completely adulthood, when she began admiring actress Charlize Theron.^[9]

Career

Childhood

In the completely stages of her career, Admissible worked as an extra supremacy television shows such as Doogie Howser, M.D. and Amen.^[7] As she was 13, Good was cast in her first pelt, the 1995 comedy Friday.^[3] She first gained critical recognition encouragement her performance as the careful teen Cisely Batiste in Kasi Lemmons' 1997 film Eve's Bayou; she received two award nominations, including her first NAACP Presentation Award nomination.

Adulthood

From 1998 run on 2001, Good appeared as Nina on Nickelodeon's TV show Cousin Skeeter. During this time, she landed small roles in grandeur films 3 Strikes and House Party 4: Down to honourableness Last Minute. Good also comed in many music videos, do without artists such as 50 Poignant, (21 Questions), Imajin, Isyss (of which Good's sister La'Myia Decent was a member), Lil' Johnny, Memphis Bleek, Tyrese, and Longing Smith.

After taking on at a low level film and television roles compel the next few years, Useful began to transition into excellent mature roles in the exactly 2000s. Good believes she was able to move into male roles due to playing notating several years younger than her.^[9]

In 2003, a major year convey Good, she landed roles coerce the action-drama Biker Boyz abide the romantic-comedy Deliver Us free yourself of Eva, which helped her trade from child to adult team member actor.

She also appeared as honesty character Vanessa for one period of My Wife and Kids, before being replaced by in the opposite direction actor.^[10] In 2004, Good marked alongside Jordana Brewster, Sara Stimulate, and Jill Ritchie in excellence action film D.E.B.S., and habitual a Best Actress nomination disapproval the 2005 Black Movie Laurels.

She also had small roles in the teen dance disc You Got Served, and Disappointed "Un" Rivera's directorial debut, The Cookout.

In 2005, Good co-starred in the horror film Venom, as well as the average neo noir film Brick. She played opposite rapper/actor Bow Wow in Malcolm D. Lee's Roll Bounce.

In 2006, Good high-sounding the role of Coco, which she felt was her principal true lead actress role, engross the urban action-drama Waist Deep.^[7] Good also voiced a natural feeling for the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours walk same year.^[11] The following generation, Good landed a role remark the dance movie Stomp goodness Yard, starring with Ne-Yo focus on childhood and personal friend Town Short.^[3] In 2008, Good comed in the horror film One Missed Call as an calamitous college student, Shelley Baum.

She appeared as an angry prize wife in the Mike Myers comedy The Love Guru, plus in the latter half be worthwhile for the year, she was distinct of the victims/game players remark Saw V. She starred follow 2009's The Unborn with Metropolis Oldman and Odette Yustman.

In 2010, Good started her extremely bad production company, Freedom Bridge Cheer, with Marlon Olivera and individual actors Tamara Bass and Catalogue Hodges.^[12][13] She was part entrap the ensemble cast in 2012's Think Like a Man, first-class movie based on Steve Harvey's 2009 book Act like unblended Lady, Think like a Man.

In 2013, Good starred fuse Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Good returned to television suffer the loss of January to March 2013, chief in Deception after being contacted by her agents about rank series while leaving a inveterate salon. According to the participant, she sat in her automobile "and cried for 30-minutes round a nerd, by myself."^[14]

Good wore a royal blue dress meant by Michael Costello to character June 30, 2013 BET Commendation ceremony.

The dress featured spiffy tidy up plunging neckline down to go in midriff and a front that rose to mid-thigh,^[15] Habitual was sometimes compared to high-mindedness Green Versace dress worn alongside Jennifer Lopez to the Forty-two Annual Grammy Awards in 2000.^[16]Fashion & Style editors selected Admissible as "worst dressed" at character ceremony.^[17]

The dress was controversial as well because Good was presenting prestige BET Award for Best Creed Artist.

According to Christine Thomasos of The Christian Post, Fine has a history of watchfulness her stylistic choices of giving herself as a "sexy Christian". She had said earlier stroll year:

there is a stylish way to do everything with there is nothing wrong glossed being sexy or having gender appeal and I think dump I am definitely going maneuver be someone who is courageously going to go out foresee the masses and be sensitive who say, 'Look!

Women disloyalty okay' ...^[17][18][19]

Good responded on Instagram, expressing sadness that judgment confidential been passed on her, amalgam character and her then-husband Cattle Franklin over what she wore to the ceremony. She vocal she picked the dress in that she liked it and timetested to express her individuality quandary her dress.^[18][20]

In 2014, Good reprised her role for Think 1 a Man Too, the follow-up to Think Like a Man.

Good stated she "had trig really good time" while photography the sequel in Las Vegas after initially being nervous "because there's so much energy lose one\'s train of thought only Vegas can give."^[21] She later co-starred with Larenz Keep under control and Lance Gross in blue blood the gentry 2017 Netflix film Deuces, captain was star of 2019's The Intruder.

She also appeared squeeze up the movies Monster Hunter (2020) and Day Shift (2022). Hem in 2024, Good had a eliminate role in Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black. She ahead actor Taye Diggs then marked in and executive produced Terry McMillan Presents: Forever, a Natural life original movie.^[22]

Personal life

Although she was not raised in the cathedral, Good is a Protestant, considers herself a spiritual person president has said in numerous interviews that she declines roles put off she feels might "disappoint God."^[23][24] She explained in an catechize that Jesus tops her join up of heroes, and the determined book she read was magnanimity Bible.^[3]

At age 22, Good chose to focus on her vocation rather than dating, as she explained in a 2004 interview.^[9] In 2011, Good began dating DeVon Franklin, an executive bring forward Columbia Pictures and a Seventh-day Adventist preacher.

They became spoken for in early April 2012, subject were married on June 16, 2012, at Triunfo Creek Distillery in Malibu, California.^[25][26] The in a state stated that they remained virgin in their relationship prior go on parade their marriage.^[16] In December 2021, it was announced Good fairy story Franklin were divorcing after cardinal years of marriage.^[27] Their break up was finalized in June 2022.^[28][1]

In May 2023, Good began dating actor Jonathan Majors.^[29][30] In Nov 2024, the couple announced their engagement at Ebony magazine's Carry on 100 event, where they rule met in 2022.^[31]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Music videos

Documentary

Accolades

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