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| Birth Name: | Chequan Tyreek Holloway |
| Birth Date: | 5 August 1990 |
| Birth Place: | Rochester, New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Actor |
Chequan Tyreek Holloway (born August 5, 1990) is an American actor known for his three-season stint as Officer Amir Johnson in the comedy web series Dark Justice.
Holloway was born August 5, 1990, in the city of Rochester, New York.[1]
In his teen years, Holloway majored in acting at Rochester's School of The Arts and attended the Geva Theatre Center's Summer acting academy for two sessions in 2007 and 2009.[2] As a college student, he attended New York City's American Musical and Dramatic Academy from 2010-2011.[3]
Holloways break role happened in 2012 when he co-starred in an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Network show Unfaithful: Stories of Betrayal, where he played Kacey, half of a married couple struggling to save their relationship after it's jeopardized by infidelity.[4] Afterward, Holloway appeared on stage in roles such as that of Tom Robinson in a stage adaptation of Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird at the Bristol Valley Theatre in Naples, New York.[5] Holloway has starred in multiple web series including his role as a reformed criminal forced to keep his family afloat by taking on a potentially fatal last job in the 2014 crime drama short PRESSURE, directed by Reginald Altidor.[6]
In 2016, Holloway started the first of a three-season run on the social issues-focused satire Dark Justice, written and created by Mike Gerbino where he appeared as Amir Johnson, who as the only Black cop on an all-white local police force deals with its inherent racial discrimination while trying to serve and protect his community.[7] Holloway's performance in the series earned him a nomination for Best Actor at the ROC Awards.[8]