Boyz N The Hood Cast: What They Look Like Now & Biggest Movies Since
What does the Boyz N The Hood cast look like now and which movies have they appeared in since? Before his untimely death in 2019, producer and director John Singleton helmed some of the most influential Black-led films and TV shows in recent memory. Not only is Singleton the man behind critically acclaimed movies like Baby Boy and Rosewood, he’s also the co-creator of FX’s ongoing crime drama Snowfall which chronicles the crack epidemic in 1980s Los Angeles.
John Singleton made his directorial debut back in 1991 with Boyz N The Hood – a coming-of-age drama that focuses on three young men growing up in the Crenshaw neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles. It earned Singleton two Academy Award nominations (for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay) and is hailed by many as the best film he made.
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The cast of Boyz N The Hood features veteran Black actors like Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett and gave breakout roles to the likes of Cuba Gooding Jr. Read on to find out what the Boyz N The Hood cast looks like nowadays and what they’ve been up to since the movie came out in 1991.
Cuba Gooding Jr. tops the Boyz N The Hood cast as protagonist Tre Styles who is sent by his mother to live with his father in South Central Los Angeles. Gooding went on to receive a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscars for his role in the 1996 romantic comedy Jerry Maguire and more recently appeared in critically acclaimed movies like The Butler and Selma.
Angela Bassett played Tre’s struggling mother Reva in Boyz N The Hood, but she’s probably best known for her Academy Award-nominated performance as Tina Turner in the biopic What’s Love Got To Do With
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