Omari Hardwick Net Worth

What is Omari Hardwick Net Worth?

Omari Hardwick net worth is US$ 5 Million as of Jan 2023.

Biography

Omari Latif Hardwick was raised in Georgia Decatur, after being born in Savannah, Georgia, to Clifford Hardwick III and Joyce. His parents named him Omari Latif, which means “most high,” to establish a standard. Hardwick began regularly writing poetry when he reached fourteen; This excitement would follow him for the rest of his life. He played football at the University. He said, “I’ve always been married to both my passions for painting and athletics,” after dominating high school basketball, baseball, and other sports. Even though he was a star on the field, Hardwick maintained his love of performing throughout university and minored in acting.

Hardwick moved to San Diego hoping to join the San Diego Chargers. He elected himself for the NFL draft but was not selected, and thus, he returned to acting. He decided to rediscover his initial acting enthusiasm and relocated to New York to further his craft-related education. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2000, Hardwick studied off-Broadway in New York. To afford acting school, he suffered as an artist and took on odd jobs, but the security work and sporadic replacement teaching employment were insufficient to sustain him. He spent a night in his car at one point.

In 2003, Hardwick got his big break when he was given his first significant part as a series regular in Spike Lee’s Sucker Free City. Hardwick worked on various projects from 2007 to 2009, including Next Day Air for Summit Entertainment and Miracle at St. Anna for Touchstone Pictures. He also appeared as a guest star on several television shows. He was cast as “Ty Curtis” in the TNT series Dark Blue in 2008. The first season aired in 2009.

When he was chosen to play the lead in the Starz series Power, his career continued to flourish. Critics highly praise Omari’s achievement, and the program generated several spinoffs for the network. Omari achieved a new level of talent and most notably starred alongside Tiffany Haddish in Boots Riley’s critically acclaimed Sorry to Bother You, Nobody’s Fool, against Toni Collette in Piece of Her, a Netflix production, and against Zack Snyder in Army of the Dead. Some of his roles include those in the Netflix films “The Mother,” which both feature Halle Berry and Jennifer Lopez.

Hardwick founded Plan B Inc. Theatres team and the Los Angeles Actor’s Lounge in addition to being an actor. In 2010, he also had large hopes for the growth of his production firm, Bravelife. Hardwick has produced more than 4,000 poems and still works on them.

Timeline

Early Life

Hardwick was born in Savannah, Georgia. While growing up in Georgia, Decatur, he regularly wrote poetry and engaged in various sports. While at Marist School in Brookhaven, Georgia, he played basketball, baseball, and football and got a football scholarship to the Georgia Institute. Despite being a star on the field, Hardwick carried on his passion for pursuing poetry and acting, and as a result, he minored in theatre.

Career

After graduation, Hardwick first focused on a football career, hoping to sign with the San Diego Chargers. He participated in the NFL Draft but wasn’t picked, so he returned to acting. Hardwick, an aspiring actor, relied on strange jobs to compensate for acting lessons. He even had to live in his car but got his big break in the 2004 television film Sucker Free City. Then he secured parts in the major motion picture The Guardian and a series regular position in Saved. He spent two years becoming a firefighter and paramedic in preparation for the part. In 2002, Hardwick appeared briefly as an extra in Floetry’s “Say Yes” video. In 2003 as well as 2004, he participated in National Music Slam, garnering accolades each time.

In 2010, Hardwick became a founder of the “Plan B Inc. Musical Group” and “Actor’s Lounge” at the Los Angeles Greenway Cinema. He also founded the production company Bravelife Pictures. In addition, Hardwick was featured in the holiday edition of the urban lifestyle publication Prominence Magazine. He garnered his finest film reviews to date.

As an unfortunate criminal, Chris Novak, who is headed to prison, Hardwick appeared in a cameo role on an episode of NBC’s Chase. On the Starz crime drama-thriller Power, Hardwick was chosen to play James “Ghost” St. Patrick, the series’ main character.

In 2016, the South African rapper Nasty C included him in the song “A Star Is Born.” On July 6, 2018, the comic science fiction ‘Sorry to bother you’ was offered in theatres, and Hardwick co-starred in it. Hardwick was cast in the Netflix movie Army of the Dead, directed by Zack Snyder, in July 2019. The appointment of Hardwick as Gordon Oliver in the Netflix suspense drama Pieces of Her, which the same-named novels by Karin Slaughter inspire, was made public in January 2021. It was revealed in April 2022 that Hardwick would co-star in the November 25 release of the Paramount+ movie Fantasy Football with Marsai Martin and Kelly Rowland.

Highlights

Here are some of the highlights of Omari Hardwick:

• Best Performance – Drama: Dark Blue (2009)
• Best Breakthrough Performance: For Colored Girls (2010)
• Vision Award [Nominee] (2011)
• Outstanding Supporting Actor, TV Movie or Mini-Series: Being Mary Jane (2013)
• Best Actor: Power (2014)
• Best Performance – Drama: Power (2014)
• Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series: Power (2014)
• Black Reel [Winner] (2014)
• NAMIC Vision Awards Vision Award [Winner] (2016)
• BET Award [Nominee] (2017)
• Sorry to Bother You (2018)
• Image Award [Winner] (2018)
• BET Award [Nominee] (2019)
• BET Award [Nominee] (2020)
• Image Award [Winner] (2020)

Favorite Quotes from Omari Hardwick

“I’m a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.”

-Omari Hardwick

“For me, I’m always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.”

-Omari Hardwick

“I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I’d be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.”

-Omari Hardwick

“When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list – even if it’s a mental list that you make – of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.”

-Omari Hardwick

“When it’s all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, ‘I am a male actor, and it’s okay for me to play a gay man.”

-Omari Hardwick

“As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, ‘Yo, you should rap,’ and I was like, ‘No.’ You know, the label was tough for me. I’m a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.”

-Omari Hardwick

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Summary

Omari Latif Hardwick is an American actor who was born on January 9, 1974. He is best known for playing James “Ghost” St. Patrick in Starz’s Power and Vanderohe in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead (2021). He is also well-known for his parts in the films Saved, Dark Blue, and Miracle at St.

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