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Tavis Smiley
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Film & TV
Gulfport, Mississippi, USA
Tavis Smiley is an American talk show host and author. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles.
Known for
- Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom — Self (archive footage)2022
- Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. — Self (archive footage)2018
- Protection Not Protest: The People of Standing Rock2016
- Sinister — Anchor2012
- Fear of a Black Republican — Self2011
- Still Bill — Self2010
- Stand — Self2009
- Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation — Self2005
- The Boondocks2005
- The Colbert Report — Self2005
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Gulfport
- Occupation
- television producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- www.tavistalks.com
- Image
- Tavis smiley 2014.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1964-09-13
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- Commons category
- Tavis Smiley
- start of work period
- 1991-00-00
- social media followers
- 307387
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