Spice Greene

Spice Greene (born Kevin Keith Greene April 14, 1966 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an actor, screenewriter and film producer.
Early life
Spice Greene’s family originated from the Shinnecock Indian Nation, a Native American tribe located on the Shinnecock Reservation in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States. In the late 1800s his great-grand parents, Sarah Greene, a Shinnecock Native American, and Henry Jones, a runaway slave taken in by the tribe, married and moved to Bay Shore, Long Island, NY. Like Sarah Greene’s siblings, sent before her to work as housekeepers for the Vanderbilt family in the United States and the United Kingdom, Sarah worked in the Vanderbilt’s Long Island mansion where Henry also worked as a personal driver. They bought a home in the town of where they lived modestly. Their daughter, Helen Jones, Spice Greene’s grandmother, was a pregnant teen, sent away to Brooklyn, New York as a result of allegedly being raped by the son of the Shinnecock Indian Nation’s leader, Chief Osceola. Helen’s daughter, Thelma Greene, a factory worker and college student, gave birth to Spice Greene, born Kevin Keith Greene, April 14, 1966. His father, a U.S. Marine, whose family also originated from the Shinnecock Indian Nation, fell victim to heroin addiction, leaving Spice's mother and grandmother to raise him in a Housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where he grew up with 4 brothers, 3 sisters and 2 adopted brothers. He was given the nickname Spice by elementary school teachers who noticed silver streaks in his hair.
As a child, Spice Greene was a gifted artist with a huge imagination. His love for movies began at age 6 when his mother allowed him to stay up with her to watch late night TV movies. Inspired, he began developing his gift of storytelling by creating his own stories through writing and drawings. His first job in show business was at the age of 7 when he was cast as a member on the children's television show Romper Room. Consequently, he developed an interest in acting and played in several school plays and student films afterwards. As a teen, he survived the 1980s Crack epidemic while attending the Academy of Arts at Erasmus Hall High School, during which time his mother was forced to move to Cleveland, Ohio for his younger brother to receive a lifesaving surgery and regular treatment. He graduated and attended LaGuardia Community College, and then enlisted in the U.S. Armed forces. After completing his service, he returned to his neighborhood and began working as a barber at a local barbershop: using his earnings to help form D Squared Productions, a music production company he used as a platform to help produce the "Love Line commercial" the first television rap commercial in history, and write co-produce and perform the 1989 rap song “Pound On You,” sold in Germany, England, France and The Netherlands.
Career
Spice Greene later formed “Spice on the Hush,” a high-end private barbering business for celebrities. During this time, he cut the hair of celebrities such as Bernie Mac, Chris Rock, Tony Rock, Ed Lover, Doctor Dre, Bill Bellamy, Fabulous, Wendell Pierce and many more. Working on movie sets awakened his short forgotten love for movies, inspiring him to become a filmmaker. Spice discontinued his businesses to begin training while pursuing opportunities as an actor and screenwriter. Soon after, his son, Kevin K. Greene II, was born and circumstances lead him to become a broke single parent with delinquent student loans. He attended HB Studio for acting classes, often sneaking into film classes at New York University and purchasing books he saw the students using for screenwriting, directing and production. He was later selected to write his story along with Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, Reverend Conrad Benette Tillard formerly Minister Conrad Mohammed, L.A. Reid, Busta Rhymes, and Obba Babatunde in the book, “Souls of My Brothers, Black Men Break Their Silence, Tell Their Truths and Heal Their Spirits,” authored by Candace Sandy and Dawn Marie Daniels.
Years later, as a trained actor and self educated writer/filmmaker, Spice Greene played several TV and film roles and produced many independent films, eventually co-producing The Hip Hop Project, a film executive produced by Bruce Willis and Queen Latifah. In 2007, he formed Boss Entertainment US, Inc., a film and television development and artist management company, and produced "The Eddie Black Story” (based on an actual gang, “Decepticons,” taken from the villain robots of the 2009 mega movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen). He also played the role of a streetwise detective in the film, sharing the screen with Fredro Starr. He then began collaborative efforts with Mona Scott-Young, to develop and produce “the Larry Davis Story,” the story of shooting 6 NYPD officers in 1986. Interviews with Davis at Shawangunk Correctional Facility ended abruptly in 2008 when he was killed by an inmate.

Spice Greene is an actor, writer, producer and Chief Executive Officer of Boss Entertainment US. He also serves as a platinum member of The Book Bank Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates literacy in America through outreach programs.

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