‏Akeem Mair‏
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Akeem was born on September 16, 1988, in Pasadena, California, to entrepreneur Erol James Mair and Queen Alice Mair, a public service professional. Akeem was named after Eddie Murphy's character in the box office hit Coming to America. He is the oldest of four siblings.

Akeem first became interested in acting as a child at Linda Vista Elementary school in Pasadena, California, performing in many school productions. "I fell in love with the excitement and reactions my on stage talents affect it had in People. To be in any character I wanted to be gave me escape from my everyday life." He then attended John Marshall Fundamental High School in Pasadena, California, receiving his High School Diploma in June 2007. Having a solid educational background was huge for his parents.

Since graduating high school, Akeem has taken college courses at Pasadena City College in pursuit of a business degree to become a financial banker. It was not until one day at his daytime job where a loyal customer made a big impact on his passion to pursue acting. "You have this huge charismatic personality that radiates positive energy in people, are you an actor?" Everything changed since that day and made the decision to pursue acting as his passion and career.

Akeem Jamahl Mair has booked several principle and leading roles in various California Universities, Warner Brother productions, various independent filmmaker productions. These include some well-known and popular remake titles produce from the Los Angles Film School such as Hannah and her Sisters as Norman who was portrayed by actor Tony Roberts and Good Will Hunting as Will who was originally play by Matt Damon. He made appearances in Art Institute of Hollywood's short films in Limbo as the basketball teenager who was killed due to a drug overdose, Silent Love as Felix a hopeless mime romantic, and Life of a Villain as Skrilla, a thug who was a bad influence on his best friend and eventually got them both killed.

At Columbia College of Hollywood productions Akeem was involved in two lead roles of All about the Money as Jim a lowlife who gets killed over never paying back his debts and A Wonderful World as the homeless man Frank Simmons who gets a second chance at life. At University of Southern California he booked leading roles in Spotted as Todd, the remake of Born Forth of July where Akeem plays Jerry Levine's character Steve Boyer. At the University of California, Los Angeles, he booked leading roles in Initiation as the BKE leader Brad, The old College Try as a robotic inventor named Anthony, and Adagio as a gym instructor named Marcus.

Two New York Film Academy films featuring Akeem, The Kidnap as one of the principle kidnappers in the film and Fine Line as Joe, a washed up film writer, were screened with Warner Brothers and garnered praise, spurring Akeem's motivation and resolve to succeed as an actor. The film Fine Line did so well that other members of New York Film Academy were asking the director, "who is this that guy?" Many find his upbeat, positive attitude to be infectious, bringing energy and high spirits to projects.

Akeem Mair has also booked some big independent films such as Red a black young male who sick of police officers killing unarmed black males which will be submitted and released at LA Film Festivals. He also starred in Jolly Boy as Rich Boy, a thug from a biker gang which will be entering the Sundance festival, Happy Birthday as Chris which will be entering many La Film Festivals, Gangster City as Police Officer Cueno, an officer who is taking on the whole corrupted police force and the local city's biggest gang, and a film written and produce by Andoni Zorbas which will be entering many LA Film Festivals. Another Crazy Christmas as Jimmy, a film produce by CL3 Productions which is being presented to producers such as HBO, Ice Cube, and Tyler Perry productions.

On the web, he was been involved in many web series episodes of Motivate Me, as himself getting help from his psychiatrist in episode 5 and as an excited band member, Ivory, who followed an ad that promise his band that they will get a huge record deal and break through on episode 11. He stars in the Web Series of Blood of the Dead as Allistair, A vampire seeking total extermination against all vampire hunters. He also stars in A huge YouTube channel called Girls going Viral.