Malé B. Alexander
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Malé B. Alexander "Male B. Alexander" (June 22, 1974) was born in Long Island New York. He is an actor, film/music producer, writer, and professional athlete in Lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...

. He is the founder of Malé Baby Productions. He is also the founder of K.O.O.L (Kids Outreach on Leukemia
Leukemia
Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...

. In the film industry, he's regarded as the new Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry is an American actor, director, playwright, entrepreneur, screenwriter, producer, author, and songwriter. Perry wrote and produced many stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2005, he released his first film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman...

 on a grander scale. He is known for his portrayal of Junior Pierce
Junior Pierce
Junior Pierce, played by Malé B. Alexander is a fictional character on the American HBO drama Oz.-Character overview:Pierce is an enforcer of the Homeboys, Oz's main African-American prison gang...

 in the HBO Drama television series Oz
Oz (TV series)
Oz is an American television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes . It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by premium cable network HBO. Oz premiered on July 12, 1997 and ran for six seasons...

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Currently, Malé B. Alexander is working on Marvin's Prayer a feature film he wrote and produced.

Music Production

At 15, Malé signed with Chung King Studios
Chung King Studios
Chung King Recording Studios, formerly known as The Chung King House Of Metal, is a New York City recording studio founded by John King with financial backing of the Etches brothers and engineer expertise of Steve Ett became a site of many classic punk and hip hop recordings...

 where he was known as the "Reverend Rapper." At Chung King Studios, he converted into a music producer and eventually started his own record company called Riddla Records. Malé is the first rapper to work with the African Zulu Tribe. He was the first producer to gather the most well-known DJ's at the Metropolitan. He created an album, which compiled the work of those same DJ's.

Oz

Malé B. Alexander appeared in the first 4 seasons of Oz as the character Junior Pierce. Junior Pierce was the right hand man for Kenny Wangler and Arnold "Poet" Jackson. In the fourth season, Junior Pierce is killed by an inmate that he bullied.

Marvin's Prayer

He is currently working on Marvin's Prayer, which is slated to begin production in 2011. He is also the producer with Tawala Sharp, a former program director of 102.3 The Beat and Ernesto Sandoval, a graduate of UCLA and prominent independent filmmaker whose won awards from the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
__notoc__The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute is an acting school located at 115 East 15th Street between Union Square East and Irving Place in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, as well as at 7936 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California...

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Personal life

Malé attended High School on Long Island where he was an "All Long Island, All Star" grid iron running back. As a running back he broke several of Brown Rushings records where he averaged 6 tackles a game. He was also a Star as a track runner who was invited to the Penn Relays
Penn Relays
The Penn Relays is the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States, hosted annually since April 21, 1895 by the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

3 years in a row. He was at one point the second fastest runner in New York in 60m. Upon his mother's passing, Malé went into seclusion. No one heard from him in years until he came back and landed the role as Junior Pierce in Oz.

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