Mario Van Peebles

Actor & director Mario Van Peebles believes “culture can be a healing force”. Mario has been making “Edu-tainment” for over 30 years. His feature directorial debut was the cult classic New Jack City. As an actor, he portrayed political icon Malcolm X in Ali. At a time when diversity is being erased from history books Mario continues to put it on the screen with big Wild Westerns like Posse and his follow up Outlaw Posse. Mario and his filmmaking father brought us the movie Panther. Mario produced, directed, and starred in the film Baadassss!, earning Ebert and Roeper’s thumbs up award. Mario last performed on the Lincoln Center stage, portraying his revolutionary filmmaking father, Melvin Van Peebles, in MVP. Mario just finished directing and executive producing Nemesis, a new pilot for Netflix.