Columbus Short Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A screen performer from his early twenties, Columbus Short began his career as a movie actor with somewhat conventional roles in youth-oriented films, such as the twin 2006 releases Save the Last Dance 2 and Accepted. He worked his way into more serious and substantial material in the years to...Read More

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Quarantine

Actors: Columbus Short, Jay Hernandez, Johnathon Schaech, Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris

Synopsis: Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, and Johnathon Schaech star in this remake of Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's successful, Spanish-language horror film [REC], which follows a television reporter and her cameraman as they fall under a mysterious quarantine issued on an inner-city apartment Read More

10/17/08
Whiteout

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short, Alex O'Loughlin

Synopsis: A U.S. marshall tracking a vicious murderer through the Antarctic must locate the killer before the sun sets for six months, or risk being trapped in the dark with the madman for months on end in director Dominic Sena's adaptation of the graphic novel series by Greg Rucka. U.S. marshall Carrie Read More

9/19/08
Cadillac Records

Actors: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Cedric the Entertainer, Beyoncé Knowles, Columbus Short

Synopsis: The story of the blues in 1950's Chicago is told in Sony BMG Film's Cadillac Records, a musical drama written and directed by TV veteran Darnell Martin. The film stars Adrien Brody as Chess Records' founder Leonard Chess, with Jeffrey Wright portraying r&b legend Muddy Waters, Cedric the Read More

1/1/08
Armored

Actors: Matt Dillon, Columbus Short

Synopsis: Vacancy director Nimrod Antal helms the crime thriller Armored, starring Matt Dillon as an armored truck guard that gets wrapped up in a heist scheme hatched by his friends in the Screen Gems Entertainment. Stomp the Yard's Columbus Short co-stars in the James V. Simpson-scripted production. Read More

1/1/08
This Christmas

Actors: Delroy Lindo, Idris Elba, Loretta Devine, Chris Brown, Keith Robinson

Synopsis: Upon gathering together under one roof for the first time in seven years, an estranged family celebrating Christmas rediscovers long forgotten bonds in this holiday family reuniondrama starring Delroy Lindo, Regina King, and Mekhi Phifer. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

11/21/07
Stomp the Yard

Actors: Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Ne-Yo, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Brian J. White

Synopsis: A young man finds that the moves he learned on the street may help him make a better life for himself in this youth-oriented musical drama. DJ Williams (Columbus Short) is a 19-year-old growing up in Los Angeles; while DJ is at heart a good kid and a gifted street dancer, he runs with a dangerous Read More

1/12/07
Accepted

Actors: Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Adam Herschman, Columbus Short, Maria Thayer

Synopsis: When the weight of rejection begins to set in after being denied entry to every college he has applied to, a high school burnout attempts to placate his mom and dad and win the heart of his dream girl by scheming with his friends to create a fake university in a hilarious comedy of artificial Read More

8/18/06
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip [TV Series]

Actors: Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford, Amanda Peet, Steven Weber, Sarah Paulson, D.L. Hughley, Nathan Corddry, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: One of the two NBC series debuting in the fall of 2006 which took place backstage at a Saturday Night Live-style comedy show (the other was 30 Rock), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was the brainchild of The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin. This weekly, hour-long dramedy concerned itself with the Read More

2006
Save the Last Dance 2: Stepping Up

Actors: Izabella Miko, Columbus Short, Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: As Sarah Johnson (Izabella Miko)'s ultimate dream of attending Julliard and becoming a professional ballerina begin to take roots in reality, her interest in the art of hip-hop dance threatens to sideline her education in this sequel to the popular 2001 dance drama. Sarah Johnson may be at Read More

2006