Халеед "Хлео" Томас: Актер, рэпер және кәсіпкердің өмірі мен мансабы

American actor, rapper, singer, and entertainer

Khaleed "Khleo" Leon Thomas (born January 30, 1989) is an American actor, influencer, gamer, host and entrepreneur. First garnering recognition as a child actor with his portrayal Hector "Zero" Zeroni in the film Holes (2003), he has since appeared in films including Walking Tall, Roll Bounce, Remember the Daze, and Hurricane Season, and on television shows including ER, The Bernie Mac Show, House, Sons of Anarchy, Bones, Being Mary Jane, Major Crimes, and Shameless. As a rapper, he has released two EPs and toured alongside Bow Wow, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Sean Kingston and Chris Brown. Thomas created and runs the lifestyle brands Slick Living and Goddess Living Among Men (GLAM). He appeared in the video game NBA 2K19, voicing the Nike representative. Since 2020, he has hosted a Twitch channel dedicated to gaming and pop culture.

Thomas was born in Anchorage, Alaska and lived in Germany until the age of four. His mother is a Moroccan Jew and his father is African American. After his family settled in Southern California, he began acting in commercials at age six.

In 1998, Thomas's first television appearance was on an episode of Bill Cosby's Kids Say the Darndest Things. He has since starred in such films as Friday After Next (2002), Holes (2003), Going to the Mat (2004), Walking Tall (2004), and Roll Bounce (2005). Thomas starred in the 2003 Disney film Holes, adapted from Louis Sachar's book of the same name. Thomas had not read the book before he was cast as Zero.