Nigerian-American actor Gogo Lomo David was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania but grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, where his Dad taught business analytics at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
He graduated from Dad's school (free tuition!) in 2013. Summa cum laude, with two degrees: a B.F.A. in Professional Theater and a B.A. in Business Management.
Gogo has 28 acting credits listed on the IMDB, quite a lot for someone whose screen career began in 2014. Well, except for a short, Wrap It Before You Slap It (2011).
His first major screen role was Israel in Field of Lost Shoes (2014), which, he tells us, won Best Dramatic Feature at the GI Film Festival (for movies about military veterans). It's about the cadets at the Virginia Military Academy drafted into the Civil War, oddly presenting them, and every Confederate, as not at all racist.
Other significant roles include:
Loterna in a 2015 episode of Zoo, with Jason Wolk as the leader of a team trying to figure out why animals are starting to attack.
Danjuma Okafor in two episodes of the crime drama Shameless (2019), "Adios Gringos" and "Sparky." The character is not listed in the fan wiki or wikipedia synopsis.
Gogo's biggest role to date is Craig Simkins, the younger brother of the Simkin siblings, arch-rivals of the Gemstones, in the Righteous Gemstones. He defeats Jesse at car racing in Episode 3.1 and defeats Kelvin at Bible Bonkers in Episode 3.9.
And he'll be back in Season 4, maybe as an ally of Big Bad Vance Simkins, maybe working against him.
His resume says that he appeared in Iron Man 3, Banshee, Homeland, and Under the Dome, but they aren't listed on the IMDB. Maybe he was a background player.
Also commercials for Bojangles, Inforeach, Republic Wireless, the North Carolina Lottery.
And theater: A Raisin in the Sun, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Shadow Box, Black Nativity, Midnight of the Soul, and The Wiz.
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