Bobby J. Brown
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Bobby J. Brown was born in Washington D.C. He grew up on Pennsylvania Avenue on the border of Southeast, Washington D.C. and PG County where he took to boxing at a local gym. It is at this gym where Sugar Ray Leonard catapulted to super stardom to win the 1976 Olympics. During Bobby's boxing career, he compiled an amateur record of 73-13, winning five Golden Glove Championships. Three times, Bobby fought Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker in the amateurs. Whitaker became one of the greatest Lightweight Champions in boxing history.
During his time boxing, Bobby and his wife became parents to a daughter who was born with a degenerative eye disease. Over three and a half years, their daughter had 42 operations. Even though all efforts were taken to save their daughter's sight, she eventually went completely blind.
Bobby signed with legendary boxing trainer Carmen Graziano and moved to Brigantine, New Jersey to fight as a professional boxer. While fighting in the casinos at Atlantic City, New Jersey, Bobby became interested in acting when Mickey Rourke was filming "Homeboy" a movie that Rourke played a professional boxer. The film featured the fighters in Carmen Graziano's stable.
After the filming of "Homeboy." Bobby auditioned and was accepted to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, and he moved to New York to pursue his studies. After graduating from the school he landed a recurring role on "Law & Order-SVU." Bobby has also had acted in scenes with Academy Award winners Robert DeNiro, Renee Zegweller, and James Franco.
Additionally, Bobby directed two award winning documentaries, "Off the Chain" and "Tear the Roof Off- The Untold Story of Parliament Funkadelic." "Off the Chain" sheds the light on the misunderstanding and abuse of the American Pit Bull Terrier, in which Bobby donated one third of the sales to the Humane Society of the United States to protect the breed. "Tear the Roof Off- The Untold Story of Parliament-Funkadelic" is about the greatest funk band in music history, and can be viewed on Amazon Prime.
Bobby has appeared in numerous TV shows and movies as well as two Emmy Award Winning HBO series , "The Corner, and "The Wire." The year 2022 he will be featured as, "Thomas Allers," in the true crime six part episodic on HBO, "We Own This City."
