It’s Mario Van Peebles! For those of you who don’t know, he’s the son of writer, director and actor Melvin Van Peebles and his mother is German actress and photographer, Maria Marx. By the way, the little girl in the baby picture was his sister.
One of Mario’s most popular film’s is New Jack City, but of course he’s known for other roles in other projects like Sonny Spoon, One Life To Live, Panther, 21 Jumpstreet and many more. He’s also made his fair share of noise as an in-demand director throughout his 44 year career.
Mario was destined to be in entertainment because it was obviously in his blood.
On a sidenote, did you realize that his Pops created the first Black porn film to be featured in movie theaters? That film was…