AllMovie

A screen performer raised in Harlem and adept with material in multiple venues, from stage to cinema to television, Eugene Jones III entered Hollywood via the small screen with one-episode guest appearances on numerous prime-time series including Law & Order, Stella, and Without a Trace. Jones took his big-screen bow with a memorably difficult role as the adolescent African-American boyfriend of an Arab-American teen girl, in Alan Ball's scathing, disturbing evisceration of pre-Iraq War America, Towelhead (2007). The following year, Jones starred opposite Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symone in the Disney studios' G-rated family comedy College Road Trip.