Chico Benymon

Chico Benymon
Born	Theron Benymon (1974-08-07) August 7, 1974 Amityville, New York, U.S.
Occupations	Actor singer musician fashion designer
Years active	1999–present

Chico Benymon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor, singer, musician, and fashion designer best known for his role as Andre "Spencer" Williams on the UPN comedy Half & Half. He also starred in the Nickelodeon TV series The Haunted Hathaways.

Career

Chico began his career in 1999 as part of a R&B/Hip hop vocal trio named Trā-Knox, who were Will Smith's protégé and appeared on his studio albums Willennium and Born to Reign as well as the Wild Wild West and Men In Black II soundtracks. Their most notable featured single Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head) peaked at number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June 2002. Trā-Knox was signed to Will Smith label Overbrook Entertainment/Westbrook in 2000 with Chico Benymon, Ramon Adams and Tony Brisby who completed the vocal group. The band was short lived as the members decided to separate and venture off into other endeavors before the EP album production was to be completed.

Before the group's disbandment, he sought opportunity into television and film, making a brief appearance on Moesha before his most notable role on the sitcom Half & Half. Benymon then furthered his career into television films and starred alongside Fantasia playing her boyfriend in the 2006 television biopic film Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story based on the memoir of the same name. He began to return to music in the early 2010s as he began writing and producing his own music releasing music as singles on over the internet with hopes of releasing a studio album. In 2013, he became part of the cast of the Nickelodeon's family series The Haunted Hathaways for two seasons playing a father of two children who are all haunted ghosts residing where new tenants moved in. Years later, he teamed with Redman to collaborate on a single titled "Good Time" and after a long process of finding a platform to release his music, he distributed his debut independent album Don't Talk, Just Listen in 2019 on streaming platforms, from his previous recordings.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000, 2001	Moesha	Lamont	Episodes: "Paying the Piper", "The Player"
2001	Ali	Hampton House Announcer	Credited as Theron Benymon
2002–06	Half & Half	Andre "Spencer" Williams	Main role
2005	Love on Layaway	Reggie
2006	Where Is Love Waiting	James
	Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story	Rodney Birks	TV movie
2007	The Game	Damon Ainsley	Episodes: "Media Blitz", "The Truth Hurts"
2008	Cuttin Da Mustard	Jury
	Nite Tales: The Movie	Mitch	"Storm" role
2009	See Dick Run	Bash
	Steppin: The Movie	Bryan
2010	Perfect Combination	Suave
	Speed-Dating	Dog
2011	The Trap Door	Bruce
	Streets	Detective Alba
2012	Let's Stay Together	Bakari	Episode: "U Say He's Just a Friend"
	House Arrest	Chris
	Guardian of Eden	Rahim
	Because I Love You	Adam	TV Movie
	In Sickness and in Health	Norman	TV movie
	Hollywood Heights	Rick	Episodes: "The Text Spoof", "Loren Talks Business"
2013	24 Hour Love	Chance
	Act Like You Love Me	Russell
2013–15	The Haunted Hathaways	Ray Preston	Main role
2014	The Thundermans	Ray Preston	Crossover episode: "The Haunted Thundermans"
	Blood Lines	Stanley
	One Love	Nate Winters	8 episodes
2015	Death's Door	Bruce
	The Cheater	John	Short film
2016	Soul Ties	Anthony
2018	Do's and Don't's of Dating	Scott Hall
	When It Comes Around	Randal
2019	Bunk'd	Randy	Episode: "Lake Rancid"
2019	A Second Chance	Darius Cole	Tubi original film
2020	The Perfect Mate	Jesse James
2021	Lazarus	Twitch

Music

Studio album

• Don't Talk, Just Listen (Finao Music Group, 2019)

Unreleased singles

as solo artist

• "I Need Your Love" - (single produced by Tim & Bob)
• "Good Time" - (single featuring Redman)
• "Want It" - (single featuring Fabolous)
• "Weakness"
• "Mixed Up"
• :"All of It"

*All selected tracks appear on YouTube, but didn't make the final official album release, majority of songs from the debut album also appear on the unofficial "Good Time" EP

as Trā-Knox

• "All I Do" (cover)
• "Special" (written by Wanya Morris)
• "A Lil' While"
• "Something's Got To Give"
• "Believe N My Love"
• "Goodbye" (a father's dedication to Trā-Knox members, written by Chico Benymon)

*All selected track were unreleased, featured on Chico Benymon's official YouTube channel

Vocal appearances

Featured as Trā-Knox

• "I'm Comin' (featuring Trā-Knox) - Album: Willennium, Will Smith
• "Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)" (featuring Trā-Knox) - Albums Born to Reign, Will Smith / Men in Black II Soundtrack
• "Lucky Day" (featuring Trā-Knox) - Album: Wild Wild West Soundtrack

Featured as solo artist

• "Stay the Night" - K. Smith featuring Chico Benymon
• "Streets" - Naam Brigade featuring Chico Benymon (appeared in the film "Streets" soundtrack - 2011)
• "You're All I Want" Maurice Benymon featuring Chico Benymon - 2019 (Music video appearance and background vocals)

Tours and appearances

• The Love Again Tour (featuring Soul For Real & Hi Five, w/ opening acts Intro & Chico Benymon) - 2018
• NYC International Ball (featuring Slick Rick w/ Allure & special guest Chico Benymon) - 2017
• The R&B Extravaganza (featuring Carl Thomas, Case, Lil Mo', Intro & Chico Benymon) - 2017

Music Videos

as independent artist

Year	Title	Album
2012	All of It	Unreleased single
2016	Love Affair	Don't Talk, Just Listen (2019)
2018	Good Time feat. Redman	Unreleased single
2019	Nympho	Don't Talk, Just Listen (2019)
	I Love You
	My Day 1
	My Love is Real
2021	Lies About Us

External links

• Chico Benymon at IMDb
• Chico Benymon at AllMovie
• Chico Benymon on Myspace