Brian J. White is an African-American actor. White was born April 21, 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts, and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
The oldest and only male of five siblings, White was born in Boston to a professional basketball player father (legend JoJo White of the Boston Celtics) and a financial advisor mother, whom he credits as his hero.
White, a graduate of Dartmouth College, has played in both the NFL and the NLL (lacrosse), earned his certifications as a licensed stock broker (series 7, 63 and 65) and co-founded the professional dance company/community youth outreach organization Phunk Phenomenon Urban Dance Theater. He is also the President of Celebrity Relations for Warm2Kids (We're All Role Models), an online membership community dedicated to inspiring teens and young adults to make positive life decisions and to ensure that no young person or family suffers in silence. Additionally, White is a founding partner with director Sylvain White of White, LCC (www.whitellc.com) and Media 3 Films, LLC (www.media3films.com), full-service film, television and broadband finance and production companies based in Beverly Hills and Hollywood, CA respectively.
White began acting on the small screen, displaying a strong presence in a number of television series such as Moesha, MTV's Spyder Games, UPN's comedy Second Time Around, most notably, as Detective Tavon Garris on the award-winning FX crime drama, The Shield.
White moved to film roles. Some of his more notable ones were in Tom Bezucha's The Family Stone, opposite an all-star cast, Rian Johnson's Independent Spirit Award-nominated film, Brick and DOA: Dead or Alive, the movie adaptation of the best-selling video game series, directed by Corey Yuen (The Transporter).
His most recent role is in the musical-drama Stomp the Yard, about a young man who, after the death of his brother, is sent to live in Atlanta where he is introduced to college and fraternity life. White will play Sylvester, the leader of the Theta Nu Theta fraternity.
Upcoming projects include a starring role alongside Jason Statham in the fantasy-adventure epic In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. He will also co-star with The Rock in Disney's The Game Plan and opposite Gabrielle Union in Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls.
