Donald FaisonFilmography

Born:: June 22, 1974 in New York, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Comedic actor Donald Faison began his acting career with bit parts in gritty urban dramas like Juice and Sugar Hill before breaking through with a supporting role in the hit 1995 comedy Clueless. A year later, he was one of the few cast members to make the leap to the film's TV spin-off and stuck...Read More

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Next Day Air

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Donald Faison, Mike Epps, Darius McCrary, Mos Def, Wood Harris, Yasmin Deliz, Omari Hardwick, Emilio Rivera, Cisco Reyes

Synopsis: An overnight drug shipment is sent to the wrong recipient, prompting a frantic race to recover the package before the contents are revealed in this fast-paced crime comedy starring Donald Faison, Mos Def, and Mike Epps. When Brody (Epps) and Guch (Wood Harris) receive a package containing ten Read More

5/8/09
Scrubs: Season 08

Actors: Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Donald Faison, John C. McGinley, Judy Reyes

2009
Your Life, Your Money

Synopsis: Young viewers can learn about various aspects of personal finance through this instructional special. Scrubs' Donald Faison hosts this program that explains concepts such as insurance and loans. ~ Kimber Myers, All Movie Guide Read More

2009
Scrubs: Season 07

Actors: Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Donald Faison, John C. McGinley, Judy Reyes

2007
Something New

Actors: Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker, Mike Epps, Donald Faison, Blair Underwood

Synopsis: A woman discovers that when it comes to love, sometimes opposites really do attract in this romantic comedy-drama. Kenya (Sanaa Lathan) is a successful African-American lawyer in her mid-thirties whose personal life is not going as well as her career. While she's attractive and intelligent, Kenya Read More

2/3/06
Scrubs: Season 05

Actors: Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Donald Faison, John C. McGinley, Judy Reyes

Synopsis: Many more trials and many more tribulations await the staff of Sacred Heart Hospital in the fifth season of Scrubs. Carla (Judy Reyes) wants to "make a baby" with husband Turk, who exhibits enormous reluctance but finally gives in. And troubled (and troublesome) Dr. Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke) Read More

2006
Scrubs: Season 06

Actors: Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Donald Faison, John C. McGinley, Judy Reyes

Synopsis: By this time a key element of NBC's Thursday-night sitcom lineup, Scrubs launches its sixth season as protagonist/narrator J.D. Dorian (Zach Braff), an attending physician at Sacred Heart Hospital, learns to his astonishment that his urologist girlfriend Dr. Kim Briggs (Elizabeth Banks) is Read More

2006
Homie Spumoni

Actors: Donald Faison, Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Joey Fatone, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: Donald Faison, Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Joey Fatone, and Whoopi Goldberg star in actor-turned-writer/director Mike Cerrone's identity crisis comedy concerning a young black man raised as an Italian-American. Renato may be black, but don't tell him that. Ever since he was just a young boy Renato was Read More

2006
King's Ransom

Actors: Anthony Anderson, Jay Mohr, Kellita Smith, Nicole Ari Parker, Regina Hall

Synopsis: A multi-millionaire plans a scam that goes wrong in a great many ways in this comedy. Malcolm King (Anthony Anderson) is a wildly successful businessman who has gotten used to having things his own way. When King decides to divorce his wife, she's none too thrilled at the prospect and makes it Read More

4/22/05
Bachelor Party, Vegas

Synopsis: Some folks say that "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," and for five pals on a trip to Sin City to give their best friend one last taste of the wild life before settling down, they better hope that the old adage holds true. Anything can happen in Las Vegas on any given day; give a group of Read More

2005
Scrubs: Season 04

Actors: Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Ken Jenkins, John C. McGinley, Judy Reyes

Synopsis: Series star Zach Braff begins double duty as actor (in the role of young Dr. J.D. Dorian) and director during the fourth season of the NBC hospital "dramedy" Scrubs. In addition to such familiar series regulars as Donald Faison (Dr. Chris Turk), Sarah Chalke (Dr. Elliott Reid), Judy Reyes (Nurse Read More

2004
Good Boy!

Actors: Molly Shannon, Liam Aiken, Kevin Nealon, Brittany Moldowan, Hunter Elliott

Synopsis: For his debut feature, John Hoffman wrote and directed this effects-heavy family film based on the story Dogs from Outer Space by Zeke Richardson. Produced by Jim Henson Productions, Good Boy! presents the idea that dogs are actually an intelligent alien species sent to earth thousands of years Read More

10/10/03
Uptown Girls

Actors: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison, Jesse Spencer

Synopsis: In this comedy from director Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans), Brittany Murphy stars as Molly Gunn, the daughter of a dead rock star, who lives off her inheritance and has never worked a day in her life. When her father's estate is swindled away from her, Molly suddenly finds her life of luxury Read More

8/15/03
Scrubs: Season 03

Actors: Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Ken Jenkins, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: Season three of Scrubs is distinguished by the spectacular fashion makeover undertaken by sexy Dr. Elliott Reid (Sarah Chalke), who, after concluding that she has had nothing but bad luck since signing on at Sacred Heart Hospital, figures she has nothing to lose by changing her appearance. Read More

2003
Big Fat Liar

Actors: Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Bynes, Amanda Detmer, Donald Faison

Synopsis: Former co-stars of the TV sitcom Head of the Class teamed up to write the story and script for this teen comedy. When junior high-school student Jason Shepherd (Frankie Muniz) realizes that his class paper has been ripped off and turned into a hit motion picture called "Big Fat Liar," he takes Read More

2/8/02
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

Actors: Steve Whitmire, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz

Synopsis: What would life amongst the Muppets have been without their unofficial leader Kermit the Frog? That's the question posed by this made-for-TV confection, which not only spoofs the Yuletide classic It's a Wonderful Life, but also takes satirical aim at such pop cultural phenomena as Moulin Rouge and Fear Factor Read More

2002
Scrubs: Season 02

Actors: Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Ken Jenkins, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: The second season of Scrubs opens as the various staffers try to come to grips with surprising season-one revelations. Meanwhile, in his characteristically demonic fashion, chief of medicine Bob Kelso (Ken Jenkins) deliberately steps up the competition amongst the younger staffers of Sacred Heart Read More

2002
Double Whammy

Actors: Denis Leary, Elizabeth Hurley, Steve Buscemi, Luis Guzman, Victor Argo

Synopsis: A cop tries to sort out his personal life while a wave of odd behavior sweeps through his apartment building in this quirky comedy. Ray Pluto (Dennis Leary) is a New York City police detective who has been in an emotional slump since his wife and daughter died in an accident several years earlier. Read More

2001
In the Mix: School - Making the Grade

2001
Scrubs: Season 01

Actors: Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes, John C. McGinley, Ken Jenkins, Neil Flynn

Synopsis: Season one of the NBC hospital "dramedy" Scrubs gets underway with Dr. J.D. Dorian's (Zach Braff) first day as an intern at Sacred Heart Hospital, with his best friend and roommate, Dr. Chris Turk (Donald Faison), at his side. Nicknamed "Bambi" by the Sacred Heart nurses because of his wide-eyed Read More

2001
Remember the Titans

Actors: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Donald Faison, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst

Synopsis: A high school football coach finds himself fighting for stakes much higher than the State Championship in this drama based on actual events. In 1971, a court order forces three high schools in Alexandria, Virginia (two white, one African-American), to integrate their student bodies and faculties Read More

9/29/00
Trippin'

Actors: Deon Richmond, Donald Faison, Maia Campbell, Guy Torry, Aloma Wright

Synopsis: A high-school senior finds himself walking a fine line between daydreams and reality in the comedy Trippin'. Gregory Reed (Deon Richmond) is soon to graduate from high school, and he frequently drifts into a Walter Mitty-style fantasy land where he's the coolest guy in town, has money to burn, and Read More

5/12/99
Supreme Sanction

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Michael Madsen, David Dukes, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Donald Faison

Synopsis: A hired killer (Kristy Swanson) joins forces with one of her targets after seeing him with his son, but while this saves one man's life, it also means the one-time killer is now a hunted woman, with operatives of a classified government agency hot on her trail. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

1998
New Jersey Drive

Actors: Sharron Corley, Gabriel Casseus, Saul Stein, Gwen McGee, Andre Moore

Synopsis: New Jersey Drive opens with Jason (Gabriel Casseus) heading off to juvenile detention then unfolds in flashback as, chronologically, the incidents leading to his arrest surface one by one. First the audience sees his violence and poverty-ridden project; next his go-nowhere delinquent friends are Read More

1995
Clueless

Actors: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: Jane Austen might never have imagined that her 1816 novel Emma could be turned into a fresh and satirical look at ultra-rich teenagers in a Beverly Hills high school. Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Dionne (Stacey Dash), both named after "great singers of the past that now do infomercials," are Read More

1995
Waiting to Exhale

Actors: Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, Gregory Hines

Synopsis: A surprise Hollywood hit, this film is based on the novel of the same name by Terry McMillan and centers on four well-to-do African-American women and their relationships with men and one another. All of them are "holding their breath" until the day they can feel comfortable in a committed Read More

1995
Sugar Hill

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright, Theresa Randle, Clarence Williams III, Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright play druglord brothers who have a mob-like crime empire in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. Through flashbacks, we see how Roemello Skuggs (Snipes) and Raynathan Skuggs (Wright) entered the drug culture, with Raynathan helping his mother inject heroin. She died Read More

1994
Juice

Actors: Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine Hopkins, Khalil Kain, Cindy Herron

Synopsis: Cinematographer Ernest R. Dickerson directed and co-wrote this crime drama about a group of friends who get involved in a robbery. Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Q (Omar Epps), Raheem (Khalil Kain), and Steel (Jermaine Hopkins) are four Harlem friends who spend their days skipping school, getting in Read More

1/17/92