Khamani Griffin

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Khamani Griffin
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Griffin in 2010
Born (1998-08-01) August 1, 1998 (age 26)
OccupationActor
Years active2002–present

Khamani Griffin (born August 1, 1998) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Bobby James on the UPN/The CW sitcom All of Us as well as Tolee in the animated television series Ni Hao, Kai-Lan . He starred as Ben Hinton in Daddy Day Care (2003) [1] and appeared in Grey's Anatomy, ER, and My Name Is Earl. He has been nominated for three Young Artist Awards for Daddy Day Care and All of Us.

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He also made an appearance in Lil' Kim's music video for her song "Download". Khamani had a main role on the first syndicated season of the popular game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? in 2009.

Filmography

Film

YearFilmRoleNotes
2003 Daddy Day Care Benjamin "Ben" HintonDebut
2006 Barnyard ChickVoice
2006 Happy Feet OtherVoice
2007 Norbit Norbit (Age 5)
2008 Surviving Sid Beaver SonVideo Short
2009Hip-Hop HeadstrongTimmy
2011 The Little Engine That Could MarcusVoice
2012 Rise of the Guardians CalebVoice
2012Sofia the First: Once Upon a PrincessPrince KhalidVoice
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Cal DevereauxVoice

Television

YearTelevisionRoleNotes
2003–2007 All of Us Robert "Bobby" James Jr.88 episodes
2005 ER Clayton DavisEpisode: "Alone in a Crowd"
2006 My Name Is Earl Younger AlbyEpisode: "Boogeyman"
2007 Without a Trace Andrew PratsEpisode: "Skin Deep"
2007–2008 Carpoolers Aubrey's Kid #3 / Aubrey's Kid #2 / Brady4 episodes
2008 Entourage Karate KidEpisode: "The Day F***ers"
2008–2010 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan Tolee / Howard / Ant #237 episodes
2009 NCIS Jared VanceEpisode: "Knockout"
2009 Grey's Anatomy Wallace AndersonEpisode: "Invest in Love"
2009–2011 Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? HimselfTV series Regular
2010 Brothers & Sisters AlexEpisode: "The Science Fair"
2010 The Life & Times of Tim Boy ScoutVoice, episode: "The Girl Scout Incident/Rodney Has a Wife?"
2013–2018 Sofia the First Prince KhalidVoice, 3 episodes
2013 Modern Family Davis2 episodes
2014 Love That Girl! CordellEpisode: "Gullible Is as Gullible Does"
2017 The Mick Clown #2Episode: "The Haunted House"

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References

  1. "Ben From Daddy Day Care Is All Grown Up & A Real Stud! Remember Ben?!". www.hit.com.au.