Cedric_Yarbrough

Cedric Yarbrough

Cedric Yarbrough

American actor


Cedric Percelle Yarbrough (/ˈsdrɪk/; born March 20, 1973) is an American actor and comedian. He has starred in the series Reno 911! as Deputy S. Jones and as Kenneth on the ABC sitcom Speechless, as well as voicing Gerald Fitzgerald on the Netflix comedy Paradise PD, Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface on the Netflix comedy-drama BoJack Horseman, and Tom DuBois and Colonel H. Stinkmeaner on the Adult Swim sitcom The Boondocks.

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Early life

Yarbrough was born in Burnsville, Minnesota. He attended Burnsville Senior High School and later Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is also an alumnus of Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis.

Career

Yarbrough starred on the Comedy Central television series Reno 911! as Deputy S. (Sven) Jones which aired from 2003 to 2009 on Comedy Central. The series returned for a seventh season in 2020 on Quibi and for an eighth season in 2022 on The Roku Channel as Reno 911! Defunded. He also appeared in both of the feature length films, 2007's Reno 911!: Miami and 2021's Reno 911! The Hunt for QAnon.

He also starred in the film “Meet the Fockers” in 2004 as the role of a prison guard. Later, he provided the voice of Tom DuBois and Colonel H. Stinkmeaner on The Boondocks, Chocolate Giddy-up on Black Dynamite, and Firestorm and Black Lightning in the animated film Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.

From 2016–2019, he co-starred in the ABC sitcom Speechless as Kenneth Clements.[1] He has also had recurring roles in series including The Goldbergs[2][3] and Rake.[4] On Carol's Second Act, which premiered in 2019, he stars as Nurse Dennis, which started out as a recurring role before being promoted to series regular early in the first season.[5]

Filmography

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References

  1. "Cedric Yarbrough | Speechless". ABC. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  2. Harris, Will (November 1, 2016). "Cedric Yarbrough on Speechless, Reno 911!, and getting a Jheri curl for The Goldbergs". TV Club. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  3. Yarbrough, Cedric [@cedricyarbrough] (January 24, 2014). "Hey gang! Watch me threaten #GregKinnear in a gay way on "Rake" tonight 9/8c after "American Idol"! Only on Fox!!" (Tweet). Retrieved February 27, 2020 via Twitter.
  4. Petski, Denise (November 5, 2019). "'Carol's Second Act': Cedric Yarbrough Upped To Series Regular On CBS Comedy". Deadline. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  5. "Cedric Yarbrough (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved October 5, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.

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