Nate Parker - Biography

Parker was conceived in Norfolk, Virginia, to Carolyn Whitfield, a 17-year-old single parent. In spite of the fact that Parker's mom did not wed his natural father, Parker had an association with his dad until his dad kicked the bucket from disease when Parker was eleven. Parker's mom's initially spouse gave Parker his surname. After a separation, Parker's mom at that point wedded her second spouse, Walter Whitford, who was in the United States Air Force and was positioned in Bath, Maine. Parker has four more youthful sisters. At 14 years old, after issues at home with his stepfather, Parker moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia, to live with his maternal uncle, Jay Combs. Brushes, a previous wrestler, urged Parker to join the wrestling group at Princess Anne High School. He at that point went to Churchland High School and proceeded on their wrestling group, before moving to Great Bridge High School before going to Penn State University on a wrestling grant in 1999. After an assault assertion, he later exchanged to and moved on from the University of Oklahoma in 2002, where he was on the wrestling group and got a degree in administration science and data frameworks. 

Parker set third in the Virginia High School League state wrestling titles as a lesser while going to Churchland High School. Parker's mom moved to the Great Bridge High School locale so Parker could take an interest in its powerhouse wrestling program. He was an individual from the 1997– 98 state champion Great Bridge wrestling group and was a state champion 135-pound (61 kg) wrestler who put third in the High School National Wrestling Championships, while turning into a secondary school All-American. 

Parker earned a full grant to wrestle at Penn State University. At Penn State, Parker was broadly positioned as a first year recruit. Subsequent to exchanging to the University of Oklahoma, Parker kept on being positioned as a redshirt junior 141-pound (64 kg) wrestler. In 2002, Parker put fifth at the National Collegiate Athletic Association wrestling titles and turned into an All-American at Oklahoma. Following his fifth-put complete, he was positioned second broadly as a redshirt senior. 

Parker at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Parker was found while going to an occasion in Dallas with a model companion. Los Angeles ability administrator Jon Simmons saw Parker, had him try out, put himself on tape, at that point urged Parker to move to Los Angeles where he continuously looked for some kind of employment as an on-screen character. In 2006, Parker played the male lead in Rome and Jewel, a hip-jump go up against Romeo and Juliet that got retired and re-discharged in 2008. Parker's title character, who should be the current Romeo, was a Compton youth with both delicacy and durability. In spite of a beset content, Parker's rap execution earned correlations with Will Smith from Nathan Lee of The New York Times. In 2007, he had a little part in Pride, around an African American swim group. Parker was entrusted with delineating the visual desires of an athletic capability that was unfamiliar to him yet exceptionally well-known to the gathering of people. 

In 2007, Parker assumed the part of Henry Lowe in the Denzel Washington-coordinated film, The Great Debaters. The character depended on the genuine debater, Henry Heights from Wiley College. Parker went to an open deliberation training camp to make his execution more bona fide. He depicted a multifaceted character. Stephen Holden of The New York Times depicted Parker's depiction as having portrayed a "great looking, clean-cut youth with a sneaking terrible kid streak". While John Clark of the New York Daily News depicted the part as that of an "expressive speaker and women's man". Different analysts additionally noticed the subtleties of the character. Parker additionally performed on the soundtrack. Parker and co-stars Forest Whitakerand Denzel Washington were altogether designated for the 2008 NAACP Image Awards in the best supporting performer class, which Denzel Washington won. Parker would build up a proceeding with association with Wiley College. 

Parker next performed in a couple of low spending motion pictures: Felon and Tunnel Rats. Regardless of these early light parts, Parker's onscreen appeal and general je ne sais quoi appeared, procuring Parker correlations with Paul Newman. In Felon, Parker played a newbie protect managing inward turmoil. In 2008's The Secret Life of Bees, Parker played the great hearted cherish enthusiasm of Alicia Keys' character. Parker's character needs to manage the difficulties of spurned love. The motion picture was composed and coordinated by Gina Prince-Bythewood in light of the book of a similar name by Sue Monk Kidd. In the 2010 film Blood Done Sign My Name, which depended on a genuine story of residential community racial turmoil set in a scenery of overdue isolation in 1970, Parker plays a 22-year-old Benjamin Chavis. Parker's Chavis was an educator who had been naturally introduced to a princely African-American family and would later turn into the Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P. A. O. Scott of The New York Times depicted Parker as "modest" and his depiction as "astute, ethically genuine". Steven Rea of the Philadelphia Inquirer takes note of that occasions in the film move Parker with both "resolve and fury": Roger Ebert depicted Parker's Chavis as "invigorated and infuriated" in one of the two primary storylines of the film that began with Chavis driving a financial blacklist after an unfavorable court decision. Parker's character was "fringe" as per The New York Post's Kyle Smith and upstaged by Scott and Ebert. In any case, Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune noticed that Parker's depiction implanted measurement into Chavis, whose cousin's demise was the subject of the film. Phillips noticed that the part demonstrated that with the correct decisions Parker could be a major star later on. 

In 2012, Parker showed up as a World War II squadron administrator in Red Tails, a film depicting Tuskegee Airmen. Parker's character beverages to adapt to the worry of the military pilot way of life. Lou Lumenick of the New York Post applauded then-obscure on-screen characters Parker and David Oyelowo. In the motion picture, Parker plays Marty "Simple" Julian who ordered the escorts for the World War II aircraft notwithstanding Nazi military aircraft. While Peter Travers of Rolling Stone noticed that Parker sparkled in his part, Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe understood Oyelowo stood. Despite the fact that the story is a fictionalization, Bilge Ebiri of New York and Holden take note of that the connection between the two is the story's focal one. Holden contrasted Parker's essence with that of Denzel Washington. In Arbitrage, Parker's abilities were underutilized as the child of a driver who gets got in a murder cover up, as indicated by David Denby of The New Yorker. In any case, Ty Burr of The Boston Globe takes note of that Parker's depiction of the Harlem local is the main thoughtful character of the film. Travers takes note of the part gives Richard Gere's elitist character with his lone co operations with a different character in the film. Parker's third and last film of 2012 was in Spike Lee's Red Hook Summer. Parker played a group part named Box, whose part was not integral to the film movement as indicated by Phillips, albeit convincingly threatening as per Smith. 
In 2013, he had a supporting part in Ain't Them Bodies Saints that Richard Brody of The New Yorker depicted just like a bar proprietor who is among an "alluring cluster of characters".The part was minor as indicated by Scott. 

Kate Taylor of The Globe and Mail depicted Parker's execution as an author with an inability to write in the 2014 film About Alex as one of the all the more genuine exhibitions in the film in spite of the "stated" feel to the enthusiastic advancements. Mike D'Angelo of The A.V. Club likewise found the emergencies and clashes that Parker's character was associated with to be trivial. Parker's free short film #AmeriCan was assigned in the Outstanding Independent Short class at the Black Reel Awards of 2015and won. That same year, Parker rejoined with Prince-Bythewood playing the male lead in her film Beyond the Lights. His execution was named for a 2015 Black Reel Award for Best Actor and an Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture. In Parker's part as a cop working two jobs as a guardian, his onscreen science with co-star Gugu Mbatha-Raw was lauded by Dana Stevens of Slate. Stevens noted Parker was bound for more substantive exhibitions. The story was hailed as an elegantly composed credible sentiment with profundity by numerous critcs, for example, Travers and Ebiri, gaining a 82% endorsement rating at Rotten Tomatoes 

In the plane psychological warfare riddle film Non-Stop, Parker plays a PC software engineer, who before the finish of the film, is uncovered as one of the two criminal driving forces behind the film's coercion plot. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times takes note of that Parker's abilities are very much utilized in his supporting part. In Every Secret Thing, Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times discovered Parker and his criminologist accomplice to Elizabeth Banks to have been overpowered in their parts. Travers likewise observed the detective work to be uncompelling. Straight to the point Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter discovered Parker's execution to have had its minutes. In 2012, Parker coordinated a short film called, #AmeriCAN, which included La Anthony and is a considered growing up as a youthful dark individual in a racially-separated America. For more than seven years, Parker took a shot at making a film in view of the life of Nat Turner. In 2014, he reported that he had financing and was taking a shot at collecting his group, and that the film would be known as The Birth of a Nation, in an amusing re appropriation of the notoriously bigot 1915 film of a similar name. Notwithstanding composing and coordinating, Parker give himself a role as Turner. Aja Naomi King, Armie Hammer and Gabrielle Union were additionally thrown in key parts. 

In August 2016, Parker was respected with the Sundance Institute's Vanguard Award. In assessing the effect of general society's response to Parker's affirmed 1999 assault of a kindred Penn State understudy, a film maker disclosed to The Hollywood Reporte