Dee Tails

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Dee Tails
Occupation(s)Actor, creature performer, rapper, dancer
Years active1995–present
Known for

Dee Tails is an English rapper, dancer and actor/creature performer best known for his work in the British boy band MN8, Star Wars: The Force Awakens , [1] Rogue One , [2] Star Wars: The Last Jedi [3] and Solo: A Star Wars Story . [4]

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Career

Tails started his career as a member of the R&B group MN8 [5] [6] where he achieved 7 top 25 hit singles in the UK [7] and international success in France, [8] Australia, [9] New Zealand [10] and the US. [11] Their first single, "I've Got a Little Something for You", was used on the Bad Boys soundtrack [5] and was notably one of the first ever remixes by P.Diddy [12] for his Bad Boy label. MN8 also supported Janet Jackson on the European leg of her tour in 1995. [5]

After MN8, Tails focused on his acting career where he did theatre work for many years playing Tommy the Cat in Dick Whittington, [13] quoted by The Stage as a "a real standout performance". [14] He also had a role in Batman Begins [15] as a Gotham City Police Officer in 2005. In 2013, he appeared in the film Captain Phillips [16] as a UKMTO Operator. In 2015, he appeared in four episodes of Jekyll & Hyde [17] for ITV where he played The Harbinger [18] with Richard E. Grant. [19]

In 2004, he appeared as a mystery guest on the identity parade in Never Mind the Buzzcocks . [20]

Tails had as a leading role in a Nescafe commercial in 2011, [21] filmed in South Africa which showed Tails with a piano in the commercial.

In 2015, Tails landed the role of Cratinus in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He then went on to perform as the character L-1 (also known as K-Ohn) in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in 2016. In 2017, he played the role of Slowen Lo [22] in Star Wars: The Last Jedi voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In 2018, Tails played Quay Tolsite in the film Solo: A Star Wars Story . [23]

Filmography

YearTitleRole
2005 Batman Begins Gotham City Police Officer
2009Barry BrownJules
2013 Captain Phillips UKMTO Operator
2015Art AcheSquid
2015 Jekyll & Hyde The Harbinger
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Cratinus
2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story L-1 (K-Ohn)
2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi Slowen Lo
2018The Round TableDee Tails
2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story Quay Tolsite

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