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Home/People/Heavy D
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Born
May 24, 1967Died: Nov 8, 2011
Lived 44 years
Place of Birth
Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

18
Movies
14
TV Shows
Also Known As
Dwight 'Heavy D' Myers
Dwight Myers
Dwight Errington Myers
IMDb Profile

Heavy D

Acting

Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dwight Myers (born May 24, 1967), better known as Heavy D, is a Jamaican American rapper, singer and former leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a hip hop group which included G-Whiz (Glen Parrish), "Trouble" T. Roy (Troy Dixon), and Eddie F (born Edward Ferrell). The group maintained a sizable audience in the United States through most of the 1990s. He has recently ventured into reggae music and can now be described as a reggae fusion artist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Heavy D, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Vanilla Ice Archive poster

Vanilla Ice Archive

as Self (archive footage)
2012
Be Inspired: The Life of Heavy D poster

Be Inspired: The Life of Heavy D

as Self
2012
Tower Heist poster

Tower Heist

as Court House Guard
2011
Step Up poster

Step Up

as Omar
2006
Dallas 362 poster

Dallas 362

as Bear
2005
LArceny poster

LArceny

as Charles
2004
Big Trouble poster

Big Trouble

as Greer
2002
The Cider House Rules poster

The Cider House Rules

as Peaches
1999
Life poster

Life

as Jake
1999
Pete Rock: Soul Survivor poster

Pete Rock: Soul Survivor

as Heavy D
1998
The Deli poster

The Deli

as Bo
1997
B.A.P.S poster

B.A.P.S

as Heavy D
1997
Rhyme & Reason poster

Rhyme & Reason

as Self
1997
New Jersey Drive poster

New Jersey Drive

as Bo-Kane
1995
Your Studio and You poster

Your Studio and You

as Heavy D
1995
Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films poster

Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films

as Self (uncredited)
1993
Who's the Man? poster

Who's the Man?

as Heavy D
1993
The Earth Day Special poster

The Earth Day Special

as Self
1990