Michael Bentt
Biography
Michael A. Bentt (born September 4, 1965 in London, England) is a film and television actor and retired heavyweight boxer. Of Jamaican lineage, he was born in East Dulwich, London, but raised in the Cambria Heights section of Queens in New York City. Bentt is a one-time heavyweight champion, having held the World Boxing Organization championship from October 1993 until March 1994. As an actor he's best known for co-starring as Sonny Liston in Michael Mann's Ali and as Biggis/El Plaga in Damon Dash's indie urban hip hop classic "State Property 2". Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Bentt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Appearances
State Property: Blood on the Streets
as Biggis (El Plaga)
2005
Tommy
as Self
2017
Shadow Boxers
as Himself
1999
Ali
as Sonny Liston
2001
Million Dollar Baby
as Boxer (uncredited)
2004
The Neighbor
as L.A. Sheriff
2007
Blackhat
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
2015
Collateral
as Fever Bouncer
2004
Dark Blue
as Officer Clay
2002
Public Enemies
as Herbert Youngblood
2009
Blue: The American Dream
as Mr. Parker
2016
I Am Joe Frazier
as Self
2025
