Omar Cook is a 21x award winning actor and filmmaker born in Riverside, California. From an early age, Omar thrived in sports eventually going on to play collegiate football at Southern University. His collegiate career landed him an opportunity to play professional football where he played 4 seasons in the Indoor Football League. Omar began his journey into entertainment doing stunts as a motion capture actor with the Madden Video Game Series earning credits in Madden ’18, ’19, ’20, ’21, ’22, & ’23. This led to further opportunities doing sports stunts in Hollywood for shows such as Ballers for HBO and All American on The CW, and Colin in Black & White on Netflix. He is most known for his work on The CW series All American for his role as “Troy”, a South Crenshaw high school football player as well as doing football stunt work and doubling for the characters “Jabari Long” and “Cameron” appearing in 21 episodes over 3 seasons.
Omar has built a successful career in entertainment working on multiple movies, short films, major network TV shows, and video games including supporting roles in feature films The 4 Points, Fortunate Son, God of Dreams, Lost in the Moment, and Expunged. He directed three multi award winning films including Coke Boys, SKANDALOUZ and Deadly Thoughts which collectively racked up 21 awards including multiple debut filmmaker awards, Best Actor, Best short film awards and more.
His award winning short film Coke Boys is what caught the eye of of entertainment mogul T-Dawg Da Don who says Omar put together a short so compelling and having nostalgic vibes from when good movies like Menace 2 Society and Belly was being made Omar is a very talented artist who needs the world to see his work and that's what we're here to partner with Mr Cook to achieve with our Digital Distribution platform CNS Distribution.
