When not creating music or touring with Onyx, Sticky Fingaz can be found in a number of motion pictures and television shows. His acting career began in 1993 when his cousin and fellow Onyx member Fredro Starr played the lead role in Forrest Whitaker's directorial debut Strapped. Since then he's been a reoccurring character on the hit FX show The Shield and likewise for New York Undercover as well. For lead TV roles Sticky portrayed US soldier Maurice "Smoke" Williams on Steven Botchco's Over There, then being cast as Blade in the TV series based on the popular Wesley Snipes films. Big screen success came to Sticky early on in Spike Lee's Clockers, the gritty classic Dead Presidents, a lead role in Flight of the Pheonix alongside Dennis Quaid, and a role as a prison escapee in Ice Cube's hit film Next Friday. The aformentioned work only covers a small fraction of Sticky's work in films as his passion moved behind the cameras as he wrote, directed, and starred in two full-length motion pictures: A Day in the Life and Caught on Tape. Both films contain no typical dialogue; both films are entirely rapped - whether it be by Sticky himself, Michael Rappaport, Bokeem Woodbine, or an elderly lady from across the street. Sticky has wrapped up directing his directorial debut, A Day In The Life and the follow-up Caught On Tape under his indepndent label Major Independents. Following soon is another film where he describes how an independent director can get their film made in his documentary How To Make A Major Independent Movie.
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