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Black Child Actors That Are Succeeding…And Struggling
Who is fairing well and who has fallen off…
Bad News: Orlando Brown
Who could forget the tiny cadet “Tiger” in the movie Major Payne? With his fear of the dark and priceless cabbage patch and Michael Jackson impression in the film, a young Orlando Brown was one of the best things about the film. And he did even bigger and better things after that first movie role: showing up as 3J on “Family Matters” and making hilarious cameos on shows like “The Jamie Foxx Show,” “Sister, Sister” and most notably, appearing as Raven-Symoné’s homie Eddie on “That’s So Raven.” I think it was on that show that we realized he wasn’t the adorable little boy we all remembered. Brown was reported missing at one point in 2008 when after a scheduled performance at a nightclub fell through, he left to go vent. He popped back up and apologized for the snafu later. And in 2007, the star was arrested for the possession of marijuana, which he claimed didn’t belong to him. But before we were ready to count him completely out, he returned this year on the show “The End.” and will appear in the films, The Maul and Christmas in Compton, due out this year and in 2012.
