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EXCLUSIVE: Independent Artist Group has signed character and comedian Cedric nan Entertainer for practice crossed nan board. IAG will besides correspond A Bird And A Bear Entertainment, Cedric’s accumulation institution pinch Eric Rhone, which has a first-look woody astatine CBS.
One of nan Original Kings of Comedy, on pinch Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, and Bernie Mac, Cedric nan Entertainer’s profession spans 3 decades. Currently starring arsenic Seth Holly successful nan deed Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, he tin besides beryllium heard voicing a domiciled other Michael B. Jordan and Juno Temple successful Netflix’s Swapped, which collapsed their single-week viewership grounds for an animated movie pinch 38.7 cardinal views.
Recently, Cedric besides starred successful and executive produced The Neighborhood, for which he won 2 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actor successful a Comedy Series from six nominations. The bid was CBS’s longest-running deed drama connected aerial erstwhile it concluded its eight-season tally successful May.
Other notable movie and TV credits see the Barbershop and Madagascar franchises, Johnson Family Vacation, Top Five, Paul Schrader’s Oscar-nominated First Reformed, The Original Kings of Comedy, The Soul Man, which he co-created and executive produced, The Steve Harvey Show, and Disney Channel’s animated series The Proud Family.
Also an author, Cedric’s first novel, Flipping Boxcars, released pinch HarperCollins/Amistad successful 2023.
“We are thrilled to invited Cedric to Independent Artist Group,” said IAG CEO Jim Osborne. “He is simply a generational talent whose effect connected comedy, television, film, and unrecorded intermezo is genuinely remarkable. Cedric has continually evolved arsenic a performer, producer, and entrepreneur, and we look guardant to moving pinch him to grow nan adjacent section of his singular career.”
Cedric continues to beryllium represented by Eric Rhone astatine Visions Management Group and Gordon Bobb astatine Del Shaw Moonves.
