TJ Hassan is a film

Film

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, television

Television

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 and stage

Stage (theatre)

In theatre or performance arts, the stage is a designated space for the performance productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience...

 actor and musician, perhaps best known for several supporting roles both in independent

Independent film

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 and mainstream

Mainstream

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 films and television.

Career

His first film role was in the Jerry Zaks

Jerry Zaks

Jerry Zaks is a German-born American stage and television director, and actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Drama Desk Award for directing The House of Blue Leaves, Lend Me A Tenor, and Six Degrees of Separation and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and Drama...

 directed 2008

2008 in film

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 biopic Who Do You Love?

Who Do You Love? (2008 film)

Who Do You Love? is a 2008 film named after the Bo Diddley song "Who Do You Love?". It is also known by its working title of Chess. It is a biopic of the record producer Leonard Chess and was directed by Jerry Zaks and written by Peter Martin Wortmann and Robert Conte. Leonard Chess was played by...

, playing Lonnie Johnson

Lonnie Johnson

Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson was an American blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos...

, an American blues musician, opposite Alessandro Nivola

Alessandro Nivola

Alessandro Antine Nivola is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles in the films Best Laid Plans, Jurassic Park III, Face/Off, and the first two films of the Goal! trilogy.-Personal life:...

 and Chi McBride

Chi McBride

Kenneth "Chi" McBride is an American actor. He starred as Steven Harper on the series Boston Public, as Emerson Cod on Pushing Daisies, and recently appeared in Fox's drama Human Target.-Early life:...

. Other supporting roles in films included Lottery Ticket, The Change-Up and For Colored Girls. Television appearances include guest starring as Major Brett Hagen, an Army psychiatrist on the Lifetime series Army Wives

Army Wives

Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, their families, and an army husband whose wife is in the army. The series, shot at ABC Studios, premiered on Lifetime on June 3, 2007...

, Detective Chico Cubbs on the Comedy Central

Comedy Central

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-produced series M'larky, along with Dan Fogler

Dan Fogler

Daniel Kevin "Dan" Fogler is an American actor, playwright, and filmmaker.-Personal life:Fogler was born in Brooklyn, New York, the second child of Shari, an English teacher, and Richard Fogler, a surgeon. Fogler is Jewish...

, Gilbert Gottfried

Gilbert Gottfried

Gilbert Gottfried is an American actor, voice actor and stand-up comedian, best known for his trademark comedic persona of speaking in a loud, grating tone of voice. He has played numerous roles in film and television, perhaps most notably voicing the parrot Iago in Disney's Aladdin , and...

, Jeffrey Ross

Jeffrey Ross

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, and Lennon Parham

Lennon Parham

Lennon Parham is an American actress and comedienne best known for co-starring on the sitcom Accidentally on Purpose from 2009–2010.-Early life:Parham attended high school at Parkview High School....

, and the ABC Family

ABC Family

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 film "My Future Boyfriend

My Future Boyfriend

My Future Boyfriend is a TV movie starring Sara Rue and Barry Watson. It premiered on ABC Family on April 10, 2011. It is directed by Michael Lange.-Synopsis:...

". He was also the face of the 2010 Coke Zero Playbook of Possibilities campaign.

Filmography

• Don Peyote (2012)
• Echo at 11 Oak Drive (2012)
• The Vampire Diaries
  The Vampire Diaries
  The Vampire Diaries is a young adult vampire horror series of novels written by L. J. Smith. The story centers around Elena Gilbert, a high school girl torn between two vampire brothers. The series was originally a trilogy published in 1991, but pressure from readers led Smith to write a fourth...
  
  (2011)
• My Future Boyfriend
  My Future Boyfriend
  My Future Boyfriend is a TV movie starring Sara Rue and Barry Watson. It premiered on ABC Family on April 10, 2011. It is directed by Michael Lange.-Synopsis:...
  
  Fred Smatters (2011)
• The Change-Up (2011)
• For Colored Girls (2010)
• Lottery Ticket (2010)
• M'larky: Detective Chico Cubbs (2010)
• Army Wives
  Army Wives
  Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, their families, and an army husband whose wife is in the army. The series, shot at ABC Studios, premiered on Lifetime on June 3, 2007...
  
  : Major Brett Hagen (2008–2010)
• Who Do You Love?
  Who Do You Love? (2008 film)
  Who Do You Love? is a 2008 film named after the Bo Diddley song "Who Do You Love?". It is also known by its working title of Chess. It is a biopic of the record producer Leonard Chess and was directed by Jerry Zaks and written by Peter Martin Wortmann and Robert Conte. Leonard Chess was played by...
  
  : Lonnie Johnson
  Lonnie Johnson
  Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson was an American blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos...
  
  (2008)

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