Acting Career
As an actor, he rose to prominence when he starred in John Singleton's Baby Boy in 2001, which Singleton has confirmed as a prequel of Boyz n the Hood, in which he wrote and directed 10 years earlier in 1991. Tupac Shakur was originally chosen to play the character of Joseph "Jody" Summers, but the role landed into Gibson's hands after Tupac's death. Baby Boy co-starred Taraji P. Henson and Snoop Dogg and it became a blockbuster hit. The film lead Gibson into doing two more films with Singleton in 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) alongside Paul Walker and Eva Mendes, and Four Brothers (2005), with Mark Wahlberg, André Benjamin (Andre 3000), and Garrett Hedlund. Both films were box-office hits in the summers of 2003 and 2005 respectively. Gibson went on to act in Waist Deep in 2006, starring Meagan Good. In 2007, he co-starred with the ensemble cast of Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Megan Fox, Anthony Anderson and Jon Voight in Transformers. It was a blockbuster smash that led to two more successful sequels; Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), playing his role of USAF Master Sergeant Robert Epps. In 2008, he co-starred opposite Jason Statham in Death Race, and then Legion in 2010. In 2011, he reprised his role of Roman Pearce in Fast Five, and will reprise the role in the upcoming 2013 film Fast and Furious 6.
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