Comedian /Actor Vincent Cook has been in good professional company for quite some time. Having worked with Oscar nominated actor Will Smith and Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx in the movie ALI and Academy Award winning actress Halle Barry in director Robert Townsend's B.A.P.S., this talented comedian/actor is rapidly working his way toward Hollywood stardom and his own starring vehicle.The NAACP has nominated him for the theater award for his outstanding performance in the one man show that he wrote and produced ALI THE MAN THE MYTH THE PEOPLES CHAMPION for 2007 A polished and experienced stand-up comedian and all around entertainer, Vincent is equally at home on the comedy club stage, the theatre stage as well as the movie or television sound stage.



In playing the role of Will Smith’s boxing double in the film ALI, Cook stated that when auditioning, he had no clue he would be really fighting. But he was soon to find out. "Once they gave me a protective mouthpiece and told me to 'protect myself at all times,' I figured it out pretty fast. If those signs didn't do it, being hit by (and luckily ducking most of the punches of) heavyweight champions definitely did the trick," muses the multi-talented artist. Instantaneously, Vincent was brought back to his amateur boxing days, years before his comedy career took off. After being selected for the job by acclaimed director Michael Mann, Cook ran over one hundred miles and spent over twenty hours per week in the gym as preparation for the film.

In his amateur days Cook starred on the United States Boxing Team, won a gold medal and was a Golden Gloves Champion. Although Cook has always been quick with his hands, Comedy has always been his true passion. "My wit is even faster than my hands," Cook insists. In fact, with his ability to make people laugh, he was voted class clown throughout grade school, high school and in college, while being a young boxing champion.

In mastering Muhammad Ali’s boxing style and voice, ALI director Michael Mann, awarded Cook yet an additional role in the film. Cook was asked to play Jimmy Ellis, Ali’s famed sparring partner and former heavyweight champion of the world. During the making of ALI, Cook realized a childhood dream when he received the opportunity to meet his boxing idol, Muhammad Ali. Like Ali, Cook is also considered a hero as noted in The Washington Post. As a youngster Vincent was credited with saving six people’s lives from a burning building in Washington DC.

Cook’s comic ability, host of characters and master impersonations of Muhammad Ali, Don King, Sugar Ray Leonard, Howard Cosell, Ronald Reagan, Barrack Obama and many others, has given him the opportunity to tour as the opening act for the late great Luther Vandross, Patti Labelle, Kenny G, The Temptations, New Edition, Ray Goodman and Brown and many others. So impressed by Cook's talent was legendary comedian Richard Pryor, that he handpicked Vincent for his last live stand up comedy tour. Among Vincent’s proudest moments was opening for former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, as he played his Saxophone during the California Primary.

The producers of the hit television show, Blackberry Inn, on the BET Network immediately recognized Cook’s talents. He was cast in the starring role of Jewel in addition to being a contributing writer to the show. He's performed numerous times as a stand up on such groundbreaking television shows as BET's Comic View, HBO's Def Comedy Jam and Showtime At The Apollo.

Actor John Amos, a veteran of film and television, recently hired Cook to co-star as the zany attorney Cousin June Bug in Amos' 2004 film, The Watermelon Heist. Vincent can also be seen this fall in his breakout role as the street-hustler/stand-up comedian Curt The Tailor, in writer/producer/director Tony Spires' stand-up classic feature film Tears Of A Clown, starring fellow comedian/actor, from Friday and Friday After Next, Don "D.C." Curry and up and coming star William L. Johnson.

Vincent's latest endeavor is that of creator, co-writer and star of his first one man show, a salute to his hero, Muhammad Ali, ALI, The Man, The Myth, The People's Champion, which premieres at Colleges and Universities coming to a theater near you and Vincent is now appearing on Starz channel in the series 1st Amendment Martin Lawrence Presents.