Quincy (actor)

Quincy
Born Quincy Brown
June 4, 1991[1]
New York City, New York
Other names Quincy Combs
Occupation Actor, entrepreneur, singer, model, director, producer
Years active 2004–present

Musical career

Genres Hip hop, R&B, Pop, Urban
Instruments Vocals, Piano
Labels Independent

Quincy (born June 4, 1991) is an American actor, recording artist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his debut starring role in the 2015 film Brotherly Love and his music single Friends First.

Early life

Quincy was born in New York City to model and actress Kimberly Porter and singer Al B. Sure!.[2] He was named after his godfather, music and entertainment icon Quincy Jones. In 1994, his mother began a relationship with Sean Combs. He adopted and raised Quincy and the couple had three more children together, a son Christian and twin daughters D'Lila and Jessie.[3][4] For his sixteenth birthday Combs and Porter threw Quincy a celebrity studded party in Atlanta that was featured on MTV’s My Super Sweet 16.[5] His family moved around often but he spent most of his youth in the Southern State of Georgia and later moved to Los Angeles, California where he attended and graduated from Calabasas High School.

Career

Quincy's childhood dream was to become a professional baseball player, but he was barred from playing the sport in school due to his family constantly moving. It was then that he became interested in acting. He also began to model at an early age, as he got older he started to pursue modeling more seriously and became affiliated with the Wilhelmina Agency. In August 2012, Quincy walked in the Gaborone Fashion Weekend event in Botswana.[6] On February 19, 2015 he walked in Naomi Campbell's Ebola awareness show during New York Fashion week.[7]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2004 The Game Don't Differ Que
2012 We the Party Reggie
2015 Brotherly Love Chris Collins Lead role
2015 Dope Jaleel
2015 Street Dante

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2006 Literature Alive Self Canadian TV documentary
2008 My Super Sweet 16 Self
2015 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Trey Peach Season 15, Episode 15 (“Hero to Zero”) [8]

Music video appearances

Year Title Artist Role
2010 All Black Everything Soulja Boy Cameo
2013 My Baby Zendaya Cameo
2015 Walk Away Jasmine V Love interest

Music career

Singles

Year Title Featuring Artist Notes
2012 Stay a while Kendré [9]
2013 First thing
2014 Friends First French Montana [10] First major release

Business ventures

He is the co-founder of the production company FourXample.[11][12] He also has a watch line called Chalk by Quincy and a start-up technology company.

References