American actor

Leon Robinson

Leon Preston Robinson, usually credited as simply Leon, is an American actor and singer, who began professional acting as a film actor in the early 1980s. He is best known for his roles as J.T. Matthews in the 1991 Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats, Derice Bannock in the 1993 film Cool Runnings, Shep in the 1994 basketball drama film Above the Rim, singer David Ruffin in the 1998 NBC miniseries The Temptations, and Little Richard in the 2000 film Little Richard. — extract modified for WIKAI reader; full article on Wikipedia.

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