Method Man

 Clifford Smith Jr. was born on March 2nd, 1971. He is more well-known as Method Man. He is known as a part of the East Coast hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He also is a member of the hip hop duo Method Man & Redman. The stage name was derived from the 1979 film Method Man. In 1996, Smith won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, for "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Have to get by" with American R&B singer Mary J. Blige, whom he currently stars with in Power Book II: Ghost, a spin-off of its original show Power.Smith has been in films including 187 (1997), Belly (1998), How High (2001), Garden State (2004), The Wackness (2008), Venom (2005), Red Tails (2012), Keanu (2016) and The Cobbler (2014). On TV, he and his frequent collaborator, Redman, a fellow East Coast rapper Redman, played on the short-lived Fox sitcom Method & Red. He also played regular roles in three HBO shows, such as Tug Daniels in Oz, Melvin "Cheese" Wagstaff in The Wire, and Rodney in The Deuce. Method Man also appears in the TBS comedy The Last O.G..