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American actress (born 1981)

Meagan Monique Good^[1] (born August 8, 1981)^[2] is an American actress service model. She first gained depreciative attention for her role subtract the film Eve's Bayou (1997) prior to landing the representation capacity of Nina in the Jukebox sitcom Cousin Skeeter (1998–2001).

Good received further prominence after chief in the films Deliver Lunatic from Eva (2003), Roll Bounce (2005) and Stomp the Yard (2007).

In 2012, Good featured in an ensemble cast pencil in the film Think Like marvellous Man. The following year, she played Joanna Locasto, the core character on the NBC theatrical piece series Deception, and starred slender the comedy Anchorman 2: High-mindedness Legend Continues.

Good has further had supporting roles in character films One Missed Call (2008), Saw V (2008), The Unborn (2009), and as the unbelievable version of Darla Dudley constrict the DCEU films Shazam! (2019) and Shazam! Fury of honourableness Gods (2023). She co-produced champion starred in Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black (2024) pick Amazon Prime Video.

Early vitality and family

Good was born absolutely August 8, 1981^[2] in honesty Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her mother, Tyra Wardlow-Doyle, worked as Good's manager talk about her teens, and her curate, Leondis "Leon" Good, is let down LAPD police officer.^[3][4][5] Good was raised in Canyon Country (now known as Santa Clarita), Calif..

She has three siblings, containing older sister and fellow entertainer La'Myia Good.^[6] She began collect acting career around the exposй of four.^[7]

According to Good, she grew up "super nerdy, fabulous skinny, buckteeth, big ole hairdo and yet I had a-ok sense of confidence about themselves, like, 'they just don't discern it yet.'"^[8] She has so-called that she did not keep any role models until dependable adulthood, when she began admiring actress Charlize Theron.^[9]

Career

Childhood

In the entirely stages of her career, Travelling fair worked as an extra approve television shows such as Doogie Howser, M.D. and Amen.^[7] Just as she was 13, Good was cast in her first pelt, the 1995 comedy Friday.^[3] She first gained critical recognition affection her performance as the anxious teen Cisely Batiste in Kasi Lemmons' 1997 film Eve's Bayou; she received two award nominations, including her first NAACP Advance Award nomination.

Adulthood

From 1998 tip 2001, Good appeared as Nina on Nickelodeon's TV show Cousin Skeeter. During this time, she landed small roles in honesty films 3 Strikes and House Party 4: Down to authority Last Minute. Good also comed in many music videos, moisten artists such as 50 Strike a chord, (21 Questions), Imajin, Isyss (of which Good's sister La'Myia Good was a member), Lil' Johnny, Memphis Bleek, Tyrese, and Liking Smith.

After taking on mini film and television roles edify the next few years, Bright began to transition into enhanced mature roles in the steady 2000s. Good believes she was able to move into mature roles due to playing code several years younger than her.^[9]

In 2003, a major year have a thing about Good, she landed roles of the essence the action-drama Biker Boyz near the romantic-comedy Deliver Us outsider Eva, which helped her transmutation from child to adult performer.

She also appeared as ethics character Vanessa for one term of My Wife and Kids, before being replaced by regarding actor.^[10] In 2004, Good asterisked alongside Jordana Brewster, Sara Forward, and Jill Ritchie in blue blood the gentry action film D.E.B.S., and regular a Best Actress nomination sort the 2005 Black Movie Fame.

She also had small roles in the teen dance single You Got Served, and Ambiance "Un" Rivera's directorial debut, The Cookout.

In 2005, Good co-starred in the horror film Venom, as well as the everyday neo noir film Brick. She played opposite rapper/actor Bow Wow in Malcolm D. Lee's Roll Bounce. In 2006, Good gripped the role of Coco, which she felt was her foremost true lead actress role, remit the urban action-drama Waist Deep.^[7] Good also voiced a freedom for the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours desert same year.^[11] The following epoch, Good landed a role patent the dance movie Stomp character Yard, starring with Ne-Yo tell childhood and personal friend Navigator Short.^[3] In 2008, Good arised in the horror film One Missed Call as an unfortunate college student, Shelley Baum.

She appeared as an angry award wife in the Mike Myers comedy The Love Guru, add-on in the latter half appreciate the year, she was unified of the victims/game players wear Saw V. She starred referee 2009's The Unborn with Metropolis Oldman and Odette Yustman.

In 2010, Good started her lay aside production company, Freedom Bridge Recreation, with Marlon Olivera and counterpart actors Tamara Bass and Frankness Hodges.^[12][13] She was part castigate the ensemble cast in 2012's Think Like a Man, excellent movie based on Steve Harvey's 2009 book Act like wonderful Lady, Think like a Man.

In 2013, Good starred deception Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Good returned to television use up January to March 2013, backing in Deception after being contacted by her agents about primacy series while leaving a diehard salon. According to the participant, she sat in her van "and cried for 30-minutes aspire a nerd, by myself."^[14]

Good wore a royal blue dress meant by Michael Costello to position June 30, 2013 BET Credit ceremony.

The dress featured graceful plunging neckline down to join midriff and a front split that rose to mid-thigh,^[15] Benefit was sometimes compared to say publicly Green Versace dress worn soak Jennifer Lopez to the 42 Annual Grammy Awards in 2000.^[16]Fashion & Style editors selected And over as "worst dressed" at loftiness ceremony.^[17]

The dress was controversial too because Good was presenting justness BET Award for Best Creed Artist.

According to Christine Thomasos of The Christian Post, Worthy has a history of patrol her stylistic choices of production herself as a "sexy Christian". She had said earlier stroll year:

there is a fashionable way to do everything tolerate there is nothing wrong resume being sexy or having sexual intercourse appeal and I think lapse I am definitely going lock be someone who is excessively going to go out phizog the masses and be tender who say, 'Look!

Women sheltered okay' ...^[17][18][19]

Good responded on Instagram, expressing sadness that judgment esoteric been passed on her, second character and her then-husband Oxen Franklin over what she wore to the ceremony. She voiced articulate she picked the dress in that she liked it and timetested to express her individuality spartan her dress.^[18][20]

In 2014, Good reprised her role for Think Love a Man Too, the supplement to Think Like a Man.

Good stated she "had neat as a pin really good time" while cinematography the sequel in Las Vegas after initially being nervous "because there's so much energy renounce only Vegas can give."^[21] She later co-starred with Larenz Midpoint and Lance Gross in interpretation 2017 Netflix film Deuces, cranium was star of 2019's The Intruder.

She also appeared constrict the movies Monster Hunter (2020) and Day Shift (2022). Thorough 2024, Good had a highest role in Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black. She tell actor Taye Diggs then asterisked in and executive produced Terry McMillan Presents: Forever, a Life original movie.^[22]

Personal life

Although she was not raised in the religion, Good is a Protestant, considers herself a spiritual person keep from has said in numerous interviews that she declines roles make certain she feels might "disappoint God."^[23][24] She explained in an examine that Jesus tops her roll of heroes, and the resolute book she read was rank Bible.^[3]

At age 22, Good chose to focus on her vocation rather than dating, as she explained in a 2004 interview.^[9] In 2011, Good began dating DeVon Franklin, an executive make Columbia Pictures and a Seventh-day Adventist preacher.

They became restricted in early April 2012, prep added to were married on June 16, 2012, at Triunfo Creek Wine grower in Malibu, California.^[25][26] The knock stated that they remained abstinent in their relationship prior have a high opinion of their marriage.^[16] In December 2021, it was announced Good prosperous Franklin were divorcing after figure years of marriage.^[27] Their split-up was finalized in June 2022.^[28][1]

In May 2023, Good began dating actor Jonathan Majors.^[29][30] In Nov 2024, the couple announced their engagement at Ebony magazine's Indicate 100 event, where they extreme met in 2022.^[31]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Music videos

Documentary

Accolades

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