Acting credits
43
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Fab 5 Freddy
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
0.8
Low visibility
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Movies: 38Series: 8Crew credits: 6
TMDB ID: 240799
IMDb ID: nm0292735
Known for: Acting
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1978 - 2023
Years active: 46
Average TMDB rating: 6.8
Wikidata: Q958532
Also known as
Fred Brathwaite • Fred Braithwaite • Fab Five Freddy • Fred "Fab 5 Freddy" Brathwaite
Other jobs
Associate Producer (1)Consulting Producer (1)Director (1)Executive Producer (1)Music (1)Producer (1)
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fred Brathwaite (born 1959), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American Hip hop historian, Hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist. He was active in New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s, and later hosted the first hip-hop music video show on TV, "Yo! MTV Raps".
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Fab 5 Freddy.
The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
as Self
2023 Movie
6.9
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Executive Producer
2023 Movie
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
as Self
2023 Movie
7.0
Hold Your Fire
Producer
2021 Movie
7.2
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
as Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist
2021 Movie
7.5
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
as Self
2020 Movie
4.8
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
as Self
2020 Movie
2.0
It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
as Self
2020 Movie
6.7
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
as Self
2019 Movie
6.6
Grass Is Greener
Director
2019 Movie
6.9
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
as Self
2018 Movie
5.8
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
as Self
2017 Movie
5.7
Barry
as Rameek
2016 Movie
5.7
Hustlers Convention
as Self
2015 Movie
6.9
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
as Self
2014 Movie
NB90s
2013 Movie
6.4
Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
as Self
2013 Movie
5.0
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
as Self
2012 Movie
NB80s
as Narrator (voice)
2011 Movie
7.1
Blank City
as Self
2011 Movie
7.3
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
as Self
2010 Movie
Downtown Calling
as Self
2009 Movie
8.0
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
as Self
2009 Movie
6.3
Rachel Getting Married
as Rehearsal Dinner Guest
2008 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Fab 5 Freddy.
6.7
The Andy Warhol Diaries
as Self • 6 eps
2022 Series
8.0
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
as Self • 6 eps
2019 Series
7.8
The Defiant Ones
as Self • 2 eps
2017 Series
6.9
Marvel's Luke Cage
as Fab 5 Freddy • 1 eps
2016 Series
7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith • 1 eps
2001 Series
7.0
The Hip Hop Years
as Self • 2 eps
1999 Series
7.5
Yo! MTV Raps
as Self • 50 eps
1988 Series
TV Party
7 eps
1978 Series