Personal Info
Birth date
1968-06-14 (57 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Also known as
Langston Faizon Santisima
Faison Love
فیژن لاو
Faizon Love
Biography
Faizon Andre Love (born Langston Faizon Santisima; June 14, 1968) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his roles in the comedy films The Meteor Man, Don't Be a Menace, Friday, B*A*P*S, Elf, The Replacements, Made, Mr Bones, and Couples Retreat, as well as the voice of Sean "Sweet" Johnson in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and his role as Wendell Wilcox on The Parent 'Hood. He got his start as a stand-up comedian and made his acting debut Off-Broadway at the age of nineteen. His motion picture debut, Bebe's Kids had him providing the voice of late comedian Robin Harris. He then had a role in The Meteor Man starring Robert Townsend. Townsend then cast Love in a co-starring role on his sitcom The Parent 'Hood. He followed up this role with a breakout performance as the drug dealer Big Worm in the 1995 film Friday. Follow-up films have included Elf, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Money Talks, Wonderland, The Fighting Temptations, and Idlewild. Love gained wider appeal when he co-starred in the 2009 film, Couples Retreat, a comedy chronicling four couples who partake in therapy sessions at a tropical island resort. His most recent role is that of Kurtis Kool in 2011’s Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son. Many gamers may also know him for his role as Sean "Sweet" Johnson, simply known as Sweet, in the Rockstar North game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Filmography
The Wendy Williams Show
6
Overview:
Radio personality Wendy Williams is the host to her own live syndicated talk show. Wendy injects her television series with the same style that characterizes her radio show, and divides on-air time between probing celebrity interviews and advice-giving to audience members.It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
8.277
Overview:
Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better.My Name Is Earl
7.666
Overview:
When petty criminal Earl Hickey wins the lottery, he sets off on a quest to repair his questionable karma.The Parent 'Hood
7.3
Overview:
The Parent 'Hood is an American sitcom that aired on The WB airing from January 18, 1995 to July 25, 1999. The series starred Robert Townsend and Suzzanne Douglas. Originally to have been titled Father Knows Nothing, the series was one of the four sitcoms that aired as part of the original Wednesday night two-hour lineup that helped launch The WB network.The Wayans Bros.
7.1
Overview:
The Wayans Bros. is a situation comedy that aired from January 1995 to May 1999 on The WB. The series starred real-life brothers Shawn and Marlon Wayans. Both brothers were already well-known from the sketch comedy show In Living Color that aired from 1990 to 1994 on Fox. The series also starred John Witherspoon and Anna Maria Horsford.That's So Raven
7.2
Overview:
No ordinary teenager; Raven Baxter can see glimpses of the future! Watch her schemes and misadventures as she enlists the help of friends, including best friends Eddie and Chelsea, to change life's little outcomes. Raven's younger brother, Cory, is obsessed with money and creates get-rich-quick schemes to try to earn cash.black-ish
7.2
Overview:
A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.The Upshaws
7.8
Overview:
Bennie Upshaw, the head of a Black working class family in Indianapolis, is a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess just trying his best to step up and care for his family and tolerate his sardonic sister-in-law, all without a blueprint for success.Step Up
7.349
Overview:
Twins Tal and Janelle relocate from Ohio to Atlanta, where at their new school High Water is always a beat.Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
7.024
Overview:
When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?Friday
7.122
Overview:
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.The Luau
8.5
Overview:
Having just lost his job at a soul food take-out joint, Cedric (Brian Hooks) gets the bad news that a local female crime kingpin has picked the wrong time to call in a large IOU he racked up some time back. Needing a fast buck, Cedric and some friends decide to stage a Hawaiian luau, and charge people for the privilege of enjoying the feast. However, what was to be a small, exclusive party becomes a massive neighborhood blowout, and everyone who is owed money by Cedric (a sizable list in itself) shows up expecting free food and entertainment.The War with Grandpa
6.431
Overview:
Peter is thrilled that his Grandpa is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa moves into Peter's room, forcing him upstairs into the creepy attic. And though he loves his Grandpa, he wants his room back - so he has no choice but to declare war.Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
5.544
Overview:
FBI agent Malcolm Turner and his 17-year-old son Trent go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Posing as Big Momma and Charmaine, they must find the murderer before he finds them.Elf
6.655
Overview:
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.Couples Retreat
5.561
Overview:
Four couples, all friends, descend on a tropical island resort. Though one husband and wife are there to work on their marriage, the others just want to enjoy some fun in the sun. They soon find, however, that paradise comes at a price: Participation in couples therapy sessions is mandatory. What started out as a cut-rate vacation turns into an examination of the common problems many face.Torque
5.3
Overview:
Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival and biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey, leader of the most feared biker gang in the country. Ford is now on the run trying to clear his name from the murder with Trey and his gang looking for his blood.Zookeeper
5.4
Overview:
Kindhearted Griffin Keyes is one of the best-loved caretakers at the Franklin Park Zoo, but he's more comfortable with the animals than with females of his own species as proven by his failed marriage proposal to the self-absorbed Stephanie several years ago. The animals have listened to Griffin pine over her for years and, after she reappears in his life, they decide to help Griffin rekindle the relationship and become the alpha male she wants him to be. They inadvertently reveal their secret ability to talk and, after Griffin's initial shock, teach him the rules of courtship, animal-style. Surprisingly, the animals' advice really works and Griffin is about to get everything he's ever dreamed of--or is he?Just My Luck
6.2
Overview:
Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.The Last Stop in Yuma County
7.009
Overview:
While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty—or cold, hard steel—to protect their bloodstained, ill-gotten fortune.The Replacements
6.7
Overview:
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.Blue Crush
6
Overview:
Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters competition. Having transplanted herself to Hawaii with no one's blessing but her own, Anne Marie finds all she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene - until pro quarterback Matt Tollman comes along...Money Talks
6.046
Overview:
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.Bebe's Kids
5.7
Overview:
When Robin meets the lovely Jamika he thinks he's in heaven. But when he meets her friend Bebe's children, whom she is looking after, he knows he's in hell.Mr. Bones
5.9
Overview:
A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.The Paperboy
5.531
Overview:
As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.Idlewild
5.653
Overview:
A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-era South, out of the hands of gangsters who want to take it over.Wonderland
6.069
Overview:
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes.Acting
TBASell Your House as Self
2025STZ as Curtis
2024The Last Stop in Yuma County as Vernon
2023Back on the Strip as Desmond 'Da Body' Day
2023Prince of Detroit as Teddy Hall
2022Santa Games as Santa Charles
2022Block Party as Gus
2021The Upshaws (1 Episode) as Terry
2020The War with Grandpa as Store Manager
2020She Ball as Big Meat Tuna
2020Bulletproof 2 as Jack Carter
2018Step Up (30 Episodes) as Al
2017Ripped as Reeves
2017Grow House as Rollin' Reg
2017Dying Laughing as Self
2016She's Got a Plan as Dr. Funkman
2015Brotherly Love as Uncle Ron
2015November Rule as Theo
2014Tell as Dwight Johnson
2014black-ish (2 Episodes) as Sha
2014Q as Mr. Blue
2013All Star Comedy Jam: Live from Atlanta as Unknown
2013White T as Anthony
2012Backstage at Budz House as Unknown
2012The Paperboy as Comedian
2011Budz House as Big Shitty
2011The Cookout 2 as David Turner
2011Pauly Shore's Vegas is My Oyster as Self
2011Zookeeper as Bruce the Bear (voice)
2011King of the Underground as Faizon
2011Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son as Kurtis Kool (uncredited)
2009Couples Retreat as Shane
2009A Day in the Life as 'Black' Ike Smith
2009Steppin: The Movie as Unknown
2009Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy as Self
2009‘Friday’ Straight Up as Self
2008Of Boys and Men as Roman
2008Days of Wrath as Cash Flow
2008The Wendy Williams Show (1 Episode) as Unknown
2008Black Poker Stars Invitational (8 Episodes) as Self
2007The Perfect Holiday as Jamal
2007Who's Your Caddy? as Big Large
2006Idlewild as Ace
2006All You've Got as Coach Harlan
2006Just My Luck as Damon Phillips
2005My Name Is Earl (1 Episode) as Reverend Greene
2005It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1 Episode) as Coach
2005Animal as Double T
2004Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction as Sweet (voice)
2004The Big House (6 Episodes) as Unknown
2004Torque as Sonny
2003Elf as Gimbels Manager
2003Hustle and Heat as David Rabinowitz
2003Wonderland as Greg Diles
2003The Fighting Temptations as Prison Warden
2003That's So Raven (1 Episode) as Cyrus
2002Blue Crush as Leslie
2002Play'd: A Hip Hop Story as Domino Breed
2001Mr. Bones as Fats Pudbedder
2001Made as Horrace
2001The Luau as Hustle
2001Inhumanity as Unknown
2000The Replacements as Jamal Jackson
20003 Strikes as Tone
1998The Players Club as Peters
1997Money Talks as Cellmate
1997B.A.P.S as Tiger J
1996A Thin Line Between Love and Hate as Manny
1996Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood as Rufus
1995Friday as Big Worm
1995Sledgehammer O'Possum - Out and About as Sledgehammer O'Possum
1995What a Cartoon! (1 Episode) as Sledgehammer O'Possum (voice)
1995The Parent 'Hood (90 Episodes) as Wendell Wilcox
1995The Wayans Bros. (1 Episode) as Nigel Lovejoy
1994Fear of a Black Hat as Jam Boy 1
1993The Meteor Man as Maurice
1992Bebe's Kids as Robin Harris (voice)
Directing
2007Tao of The Golden Mask ... Director