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Meagan Monique Good is an American actress. She first gained critical attention for her role in the film Eve's Bayou (1997), prior to landing the role of Nina in the Nickelodeon sitcom Cousin Skeeter (1998–2001). Good received further prominence after starring in the films Deliver Us from Eva (2003), Roll Bounce (2005), and Stomp the Yard (2007).

Meagan Good
Good in 2019
Born	Meagan Monique Good Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	DeVon Franklin ​ ​ (m. 2012; div. 2022)​
Relatives	La'Myia Good (sister)
Website	meaganmgood.com

In 2012, Good featured in an ensemble cast of the film Think Like a Man. The following year, she played Joanna Locasto, the lead character on the NBC drama series Deception; and starred in the comedy Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Furthermore, Good has had supporting roles in the films One Missed Call (2008), Saw V (2008), The Unborn (2009) and DC Comics' Shazam! (2019).

Early life and family

Good was born in the Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her mother, Tyra Wardlow-Doyle, worked as Good's manager into her teens, and her father, Leondis "Leon" Good, is an LAPD police officer.[1][2][3] Good has claimed that her maternal grandmother is "Jewish and African. My mother's father was Cherokee and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados."[4] Good was raised in Canyon Country (now known as Santa Clarita), California. She has three siblings, including older sister and fellow actress La'Myia Good.[5] She began her acting career around the age of four.[6]

According to Good, she grew up "super nerdy, super skinny, buckteeth, big ole afro and yet I had a sense of confidence about myself, like, 'they just don't get it yet'".[7] She was a fan of Justin Timberlake and Usher in her teens. Good did not have any role models until early adulthood, when she began admiring actress Charlize Theron.[8]

Career

Childhood

In the early stages of her career, Good worked as an extra on television shows such as Doogie Howser, M.D. and Amen.[6] When she was 13, she was cast in her first film, the 1995 comedy Friday.[1] She first gained critical recognition for her performance as the troubled teen Cisely Batiste in Kasi Lemmons' 1997 film Eve's Bayou; she received two award nominations, including her first NAACP Image Award nomination.

Adulthood

After taking on small film and television roles for the next few years, Good began to transition into more mature roles in the early 2000s. Good believes she was able to move into adult roles due to playing characters several years younger than her.[8] From 1998 to 2001, she appeared as Nina on Nickelodeon's TV show Cousin Skeeter. Good landed small roles in the films 3 Strikes and House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute.

In 2003, a major year for Good, she landed roles in the action-drama Biker Boyz and the romantic-comedy Deliver Us from Eva, which helped her transition from child to adult actress. She also appeared as the character Vanessa for one season of My Wife and Kids, before being replaced by another actor.[9] In 2004, Good starred alongside Jordana Brewster, Sara Foster, and Jill Ritchie in the action film D.E.B.S., and received a Best Actress nomination at the 2005 Black Movie Awards. She also had small roles in The Cookout, Lance "Un" Rivera's directorial debut, and the teen dance film You Got Served.

In 2005, Good co-starred in the horror film Venom, as well as the well-received neo noir film Brick. She played opposite rapper/actor Bow Wow in Malcolm D. Lee's Roll Bounce. In 2006, Good played the role of Coco, which she felt was her first true lead actress role, in the urban action-drama Waist Deep.[6] Good also voiced a character for the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours that same year.[10] The following year, Good landed a role in the dance movie Stomp the Yard, starring with Ne-Yo and childhood and personal friend Columbus Short.[1] In 2008, Good appeared in the horror film One Missed Call as an ill-fated college student, Shelley Baum. She appeared as an angry trophy wife in the Mike Myers comedy The Love Guru, and in the latter half of the year, she was one of the victims/gameplayers in Saw V. She starred in 2009's The Unborn with Gary Oldman and Odette Yustman.

She was part of the ensemble cast in 2012's Think Like a Man, a movie based on Steve Harvey's 2009 book Act like a Lady, Think like a Man. In 2013, Good starred in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Good returned to television from January to March 2013, starring in Deception. Good was contacted by her agents about the series while leaving a hair salon. She sat in her car "and cried for 30-minutes like a nerd, by myself."[11] In 2014, Good reprised her role for Think Like a Man Too, the sequel to Think Like a Man. Good stated she "had a really good time" while filming the sequel after initially being nervous "because there's so much energy that only Vegas can give." Filming Think Like a Man Too was Good's first time in Las Vegas shortly before she got married.[12]

Good has also appeared in many music videos, by artists such as 50 Cent, (21 Questions), Imajin, Isyss (of which Good's sister La'Myia Good is a member), Lil' Johnny, Memphis Bleek, Tyrese, and Will Smith.

She has started her own production company, Freedom Bridge Entertainment, with Marlon Olivera and fellow actors Tamara Bass and Ty Hodges.[13]

Good wore a royal blue dress designed by Michael Costello to the June 30, 2013 BET Awards ceremony. The dress featured a plunging neckline down to her midriff and a front slit that rose to midthigh,[14] It was sometimes compared to the Green Versace dress worn by Jennifer Lopez to the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards in 2000.[15] Fashion & Style editors selected Good as "worst dressed" at the ceremony.[16]

The dress was controversial also because Good was presenting the BET Award for Best Gospel Artist. According to Christine Thomasos of The Christian Post, Good has a history of defending her stylistic choices of presenting herself as a "sexy Christian". She had said earlier that year:

there is a classy way to do everything and there is nothing wrong with being sexy or having sex appeal and I think that I am definitely going to be someone who is boldly going to go out to the masses and be someone who say, 'Look! Women its okay' ...[16][17][18]

Good responded on Instagram, expressing sadness that judgment had been passed on her, her character and her husband over what she wore to the ceremony. She said she picked the dress because she liked it and tried to express her individuality in her dress.[17][19]

Personal life

Although she was not raised in the church, Good is a Christian, considers herself a spiritual person and has said in numerous interviews that she declines roles that she feels might "disappoint God."[20][21] She explained in an interview that Jesus tops her list of heroes, and the last book she read was the Bible.[1]

At age 22, Good chose to focus on her career rather than dating, as she explained in a 2004 interview.[8] In 2011, Good began dating DeVon Franklin, an executive for Columbia Pictures and Seventh-day Adventist preacher. They became engaged in early April 2012, and were married on June 16, 2012, at Triunfo Creek Winery in Malibu, California.[22][23] The pair stated that they remained chaste in their relationship prior to their marriage.[15] In December 2021, it was announced Good and Franklin were divorcing after 9 years of marriage.[24] Their divorce was finalized in June 2022.[25]

Filmography

Film

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Make a Wish, Molly	Jenny	Short
	Friday	Kid #2
1997	Eve's Bayou	Cisely Batiste
	Just One of the Girls	Starkeesha	TV Movie
1999	The Secret Life of Girls	Kay
2000	3 Strikes	Buela Douglas
	Cousin Skeeter: New Kids on the Planet	Nina
2001	House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute	Tina	Video
2002	Unglued	Herself
2003	Biker Boyz	Tina
	Deliver Us from Eva	Jacqui Dandridge
	Ride or Die	Fake Venus	Video
2004	D.E.B.S.	Max Brewer
	You Got Served	Beautifull
	The Cookout	Brittany
2005	Brick	Kara
	Venom	Cece
	Roll Bounce	Naomi Phillips
2006	Miles from Home	Natasha Freeman
	Waist Deep	Coco
2007	Stomp the Yard	April Palmer
2008	One Missed Call	Shelley Baum
	The Love Guru	Prudence Roanoke
	Saw V	Luba Gibbs
2009	The Unborn	Romy
	Good Hair	Herself
2011	Jumping the Broom	Blythe
	Video Girl	Lorie Walker
	35 and Ticking	Falinda
2012	LUV	Beverly
	Dysfunctional Friends	Ms. Stevens
	Think Like a Man	Mya
	Defeat the Label	Herself	Short
	The Obama Effect	Tamika Jones
	Dick Little	Megan
2013	Don Jon	Hollywood Actress #2
	Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues	Linda Jackson
2014	Think Like a Man Too	Mya
	Babylon Fields		TV Movie
2015	A Girl Like Grace	Share
	Charlie, Trevor and a Girl Savannah	Herself
2017	Deuces	Janet Foster
	Love by the 10th Date	Gabrielle Fateful	TV Movie [26][27][28]
2018	A Boy. A Girl. A Dream.	Free
2019	Shazam!	Super Hero Darla
	The Intruder	Annie Russell
	If Not Now, When?	Tyra
2020	Monster Hunter	Dash
2021	Death Saved My Life	Jade	TV Movie
2022	Day Shift	Jocelyn Jablonski	[29][30]
2023	Shazam! Fury of the Gods	Super Hero Darla	Post-production
TBA	Hot Stepper

Television

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Gabriel's Fire	Young Girl	Episode: "Birds Gotta Fly"
1994	On Our Own	Traycee	Episode: "Swiss Family Jerricos"
1996	ABC Afterschool Special	Janie	Episode: "Me and My Hormones"
1997	Pacific Blue	Shalona James	Episode: "Blood for Blood"
	Touched by an Angel	Nikki	Episode: "The Pact"
	The Gregory Hines Show	Pauley	Episode: "Three's Not Company"
1997–98	The Parent 'Hood	Ariana	Episodes: "No Soul on Ice" & "Flaked Out"
1998	Nothing Sacred	Carissa	Episode: "Signs and Words"
1998–01	Cousin Skeeter	Nina Jones	Main Cast
2000	Moesha	Nicole	Episode: "He Doth Protest Too Much"
	The Steve Harvey Show	Alicia	Episode: "Don't Stand Too Close to Me"
2001	The Division	Kara Taylor	Episode: "The Parent Trap"
	The Famous Jett Jackson	Tara Essex	Episodes: "Awakenings 1 & 2"
2001–02	Raising Dad	Katie	Recurring Cast
2002	The Jersey	Tamika	Episode: "The Playbook"
2003	My Wife and Kids	Vanessa Scott	Recurring Cast: Season 3
2005	Kevin Hill	Melanie West	Recurring Cast
2007	House	Amy	Episode: "Words and Deeds"
	All of Us	Katie	Episode: "Sins of the Father" & "She Blinded Me with Science"
2009	Cold Case	Beatrice Sloan (1970)	Episode: "Soul"
2011	The Game	Parker Keith	Recurring Cast: Season 4
2012	Californication	Kali	Recurring Cast: Season 5
	Harry's Law	Cecilia	Episode: "And the Band Played On"
2013	Deception	Joanna Locasto	Main Cast
2014	The Dead Diaries	Alexis	Episode: "Massacre"
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Paula Bryant	Episode: "Spousal Privilege"
2015	Mr. Robinson	Victoria Wavers	Recurring Cast
	Minority Report	Detective Lara Vega	Main Cast
2016	Code Black	Dr. Grace Adams	Recurring Cast: Season 1
2017	White Famous	Kali	Recurring Cast
2018	Star	Natalie Knight	Recurring Cast: Season 2-3
2019–20	Prodigal Son	Special Agent Colette	Recurring Cast: Season 1
2021	Harlem	Camille	Main Cast

Video games

Video games
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Scarface: The World Is Yours	Stacey	Voice

Music videos

Music videos
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Imajin: No Doubt	—
2003	50 Cent: 21 Questions	50 Cent's girlfriend
2018	Israel Houghton feat. Adrienne Bailon: Secrets	—	Director

Accolades

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
1998	NAACP Image Awards	Outstanding Youth Actor/Actress	Eve's Bayou	Nominated
1998	YoungStar Awards	Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama Film	Eve's Bayou	Nominated
2006	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Breakout (Female)	Waist Deep	Nominated
2007		Choice Movie Actress: Drama	Stomp the Yard	Nominated
2006	Black Reel Awards	Best Ensemble	Roll Bounce (Shared with cast)	Nominated
2007	MTV Movie Awards	Best Kiss	Stomp the Yard (Shared with Columbus Short)	Nominated
2008	NAACP Image Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture	Stomp the Yard	Nominated
2012	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actress Romance	Think Like a Man	Nominated

See also

• List of Puerto Ricans

References

External links

• Meagan Good at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Meagan Good

Meagan Monique Good (* 8. August 1981 in Panorama City, Kalifornien) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

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- [en] Meagan Good

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[es] Meagan Good

Meagan Monique Good (Panorama City, Los Ángeles, California; 8 de agosto de 1981) es una actriz y productora de cine estadounidense de ascendencia puertorriqueña y africana.[1][2]

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[ru] Гуд, Миган

Ми́ган Мони́к Гуд (англ. Meagan Monique Good; род. 8 августа 1981) — американская актриса и продюсер.

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