Early Career
Yousef Abu-Taleb was taking classes at the Blue Ridge Community College in Virginia in early 2005, when he decided to head to Los Angeles with $2,500 in his pocket to pursue his dream of becoming a movie star, despite the fact that he had no formal acting training at the time.
Abu-Taleb became a member of the Screen Actors Guild and signed with Alliance Entertainment. He landed an extra role in the film Dorm Daze 2, but was eventually cut from the film. He also landed an unpaid role in the independent film Stray, in which his character was beaten to death.
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