Shameik Moore

Shameik Moore (birthname: Shameik Alti Moore) has proven to be a multi-talented performer in live-action acting, voice acting for animation, R&B and pop singing, and rapping. Moore’s feature debut was a small supporting role in writer-director Todd Graff’s musical, Joyful Noise (2012), co-starring Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Courtney B. Vance, and Kris Kristofferson.

Moore’s breakthrough turn was as Malcolm in writer-director Rick Famuyiwa’s acclaimed coming-of-age Dope (2015), co-produced by Forest Whitaker, co-starring Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Kimberly Elise, Tyga, Zoe Kravitz, and ASAP Rocky, and premiering at the Sundance film festival. Under James Franco’s direction, Moore then co-starred with Jack Kilmer, Jane Levy, Juno Temple, Brian Cox, Dennis Quaid, and Franco in the widely-panned drama, Pretenders (2018).

Shameik Moore’s biggest role to date arrived in the form of the lead vocal role as Miles Morales in the huge hit, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), a freshly animated and reconceived version of the Spider-Man story, co-written by Phil Lord, and featuring the voices of Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Zoe Kravitz, Nicolas Cage, Liev Schreiber, and Lily Tomlin, earning smash results of $384.3 million on a $90 million budget.

Moore switched tones as the star of the well-reviewed RZA-directed heist movie, Cut Throat City (2020), with Demetrius Shipp Jr., Denzel Whitaker, Wesley Snipes, Ethan Hawke, Eiza Gonzalez, Rob Morgan, and Terrence Howard. Moore returned to the role of Miles in the second and third entries, the mega-hit Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2024), both co-directed by Joaquim dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, with co-writers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.