Nate Parker Overview

Actor Nate Parker can thank a chance encounter for setting him on a path to stardom. After driving his aspiring model girlfriend to Texas for a gig in 2000, he was spotted by a manager named Jon Simmons who asked him to read a monologue for a film he was involved in at the time called The Fast and the Furious. Nate obliged, and when he finished, Jon quickly told him, "You have to move to Los Angeles immediately." Nate, who was born in Norfolk, Virginia and attended both the University of... See All