Quincy (actor)

Quincy Brown
Born Quincy Brown
(1991-06-04) June 4, 1991[1]
New York City, New York, U.S.
Residence Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names
  • Quincy Combs
Occupation
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • model
  • actor
  • director
  • photographer
Years active 2008–present
Parent(s)
Website planetquincy.com

Musical career

Genres
Instruments Vocals, piano
Labels Independent
Associated acts French Montana

Quincy Brown (born June 4,1991) is an American actor, recording artist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his debut starring role in the 2015 film Brotherly Love and his music single Friends First.

Early life

Quincy was born in New York City to model Kim Porter and singer Al B. Sure!.[2] He was named after his godfather, music and entertainment icon Quincy Jones. In 1994, at the age of three his mother began a relationship with Sean Combs, who adopted and raised Quincy. The couple had three more children together, a son, Christian, and twin daughters D'Lila and Jessie.[3][4][5] For his sixteenth birthday Combs and Porter threw Quincy a celebrity studded party in Atlanta that was featured on MTV’s My Super Sweet 16.[6] His family moved around often but he spent most of his youth in Georgia and later moved to Los Angeles, California in his final years of high school and completed his education at Calabasas High School.

Career

Quincy's childhood dream was to become a professional baseball player, but he was barred from playing the sport in school due to his family constantly moving. It was then that he became interested in acting. He also began to model at an early age, as he got older he started to pursue modeling more seriously and became affiliated with the Wilhelmina Agency. In August 2012, Quincy walked in the Gaborone Fashion Weekend event in Botswana.[7] On February 19, 2015 he walked in Naomi Campbell's Ebola awareness show during New York Fashion week.[8] In June 2015, Quincy made his directorial debut with the music video for singer and actress Elle Winter's song No Words.[9]

Business ventures

He is the co-founder of the production company FourXample.[10][11] He also has a watch line called Chalk by Quincy, a jeans collection with Embellish and a start-up technology company.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2012 We the Party Reggeeeie
2015 Brotherly Love Chris Collins
2015 Dope Jaleel
2015 Street Dante

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2008 My Super Sweet 16 Himself 2 episodes
2015 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Trey Peach Episode: "Hero to Zero"
2016 The Haves and the Have Nots Daylon 3 episodes
2016 Keeping Up With The Kardashians Episode: "Rites Of Passage"

Discography

Singles

List of singles as lead artist, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name
Title Year Album
"Stay Awhile"[12] (feat. Kendré) 2012 N/A
"The First Thing" 2013
"Friends First"[13] (feat. French Montana) 2014
"Exotic" (feat. G-Eazy) 2015
"Record Straight"

Guest appearances

List of non-single guest appearances, with other performing artists, showing year released and album name
Title Year Other artist(s) Album
"Juice" 2015 M.i.C N/A
"Incredible" 2013 Xia Junsu Incredible

Music video appearances

Year Title Artist Role
2013 My Baby Zendaya Cameo
2015 Walk Away Jasmine V Love interest

References

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