Cast & creator
Tavis Smiley
Best known for The Daily Show, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report
Tavis Smiley is an American talk show host and author. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles.
Movies
12
film credits
Series
13
television credits
Career
21
1947–2022 · acting roles
Credit score
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (25)
Showing 25 of 25 credits
Series
★ 6.4
The Daily Show
Self
1996Series
★ 6.4
The Daily Show
Self - Guest
1996
Series
★ 7.0
The Colbert Report
Self
2005
Series
★ 6.0
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
Series
★ 6.2
Dancing with the Stars
Self - Contestant
2005
Series
★ 5.3
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Series
★ 4.6
Meet the Press
1947
Series
★ 5.2
American Dreams
Thurgood Marshall
2002
Series
★ 8.3
The Boondocks
2005Series
★ 8.3
The Boondocks
Tavis Smiley (voice)
2005
Series
★ 8.0
The Parkers
1999
Movie
★ 6.9
Sinister
Anchor
2012Movie
★ 6.9
Sinister
Thanks
2012
Series
★ 7.3
Tavis Smiley
Self - Host
2004
Series
★ 4.8
Fatherhood
2004
Movie
★ 7.7
Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.
Self (archive footage)
2018
Movie
Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation
Self
2005S
Movie
Stand
Self
2009S
Movie
Stand
Director
2009S
Movie
Stand
Executive Producer
2009S
Movie
Stand
Writer
2009
Movie
★ 7.1
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom
Self (archive footage)
2022
Movie
Fear of a Black Republican
Self
2011
Movie
★ 7.1
Still Bill
Self
2010
Movie