Antwon Tanner as
Skills Film and TV actor Antwon Tanner was born on April 14, 1975 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Corliss and King High Schools. In 1993, he graduated from Rosemead High. He used to be a sports buff but after high school, he gave up athletics to focus on his music inclination.
In 2005, Antwon Tanner was cast as Worm in the award-winning sports film Coach Carter. He played the role of a teenager, when in reality he was already 30 years old. Other movies he was part of are Brothers in Arms, Never Die Alone, Brother, The Wood, One Eight Seven and Sunset Park.
On Boston Public, he was seen as Kevin Jackson. Tanner’s other notable TV appearances were on shows CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NYPD Blue, Moesha, The Client, The Tick and Touched by an Angel. In 1998, he was also part of the made-for-TV action movie Inferno.
Tanner is also Hack on the video games Soviet Strike and Nuclear Strike.
Tanner looks up to BAFTA-winning actor Samuel L. Jackson and names him as his role model.
Tanner has a set of well-defined goals in life and is keen on pursuing them. He is vocal about his faith in God and in his belief that every success he achieved is a result of God's handiwork.
In every task he partakes in, Antwon Tanner always considers the welfare of his son. “That's my little 'Mooter,' right there. Everything I do I try to keep in mind that I have him to take care of.” His number one inspiration is, of course, also his son.
Antwon Tanner plays Skills on the teen TV drama One Tree Hill. A show created by Mark Schwahn, One Tree Hill premiered on WB in 2003. In 2006, WB and UPN merged and started the CW network, and the show’s fourth season started airing on CW.
Exclusive Interview: Antwon Tanner of 'One Tree Hill' (Image courtesy of the CW)