LeJon
Role:
Deja
Type:
Cast
LeJon is a native of Southern California, born in Inglewood and raised in Compton & Carson. LeJon's first theatre experience was at the age of 11 when he played Travis in "A Raisin In The Sun" with The All Peoples Community Theatre group. He danced on Soul Train in H.S. In college he was an English Major & Minored in Theatre Arts. After College he attended Loyola Law School for 1 year. That summer he obtained employment for a private practice law firm in Century City. A year later he was hired at an Entertainment Business Mgmt Firm. Gene Hackman, Boz Scaggs, Kelly LeBrock and Apollonia were his clients.
LeJon married his College sweetheart, purchased a home in the Inland Empire and eventually became a teacher for the Colton School District and taught K-6, Middle (At Risk) & H.S.(Special Ed. & Drama).
On summer break from teaching he was cast as a background actor for the film Boogie Nights. On set, that night he had an epiphany that it was time to pursue an acting career. He joined SAG in 1998 and AFTRA in 2000 and worked at an Extras Casting Co. choosing background work to augment his journey pursuing an acting career.
In 2005 Disney Studios & Jerry Bruckheimer Films auditioned 800 actors for Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest. LeJon was cast as a Black Pearl Pirate, Capt.Jack Sparrow's Rifleman. Gore Verbinski used the name Lejon for his role which miraculously made LeJon a Disney character. He is defined in Wikipedia as an African American Actor raised in Southern California as well as Character Lejon, the Black Pearl pirate who was found on the Island of Tortuga by Capt.Sparrow. Disney & Lego immortalized LeJon by creating a lego figurine that sells with the Bone Cage apparatus named Lejon. He also took a wide range of Acting classes with the American Film Institue and was cast in several student films.
LeJon can also be seen in Thomas Haden Church's "Cardboard Boxer",Television shows "Community", "Parenthood", "FX Legit", TV movie "Art Prison", Netflix 2024 "Down for the Count" and more.
LeJon is also known for National commercials for Mercedes Benz directed by Michael Bay, McDonalds, Reebok, Regional commercial directed by Hype Williams for Mountain Dew with Busta Rhymes and Super Bowl commercial for "The Voice". Korean Airlines chose LeJon to be in an International Print Ad & commercial.
LeJon has been a member of The Sky Pilot Theatre Co.for the past 9 years and stars in a scripted Podcast entitled NPRmageddon. He currently has 10 features that stream on Netflix, Amazon Prime and/or Tubi. In Dec. 2023 he was awarded a Channy Award for Best Supporting Actor, by Channel 101, created by Dan Harmon & Rob Schrab. In a previous year LeJon won Best Supporting Actor and Best Villian for his role as the Leprechaun of Cream.
He is currently working on "Loose Ends" by J. Luksetich and recently cast in Nestor Vinelli's "Echoes of the Forrest"
Recently LeJon was interviewed LIVE by Arica TV (Chile) and will be featured in Original MAGAZINE (UK) in the May 2024 Issue.
