Tommy D. Lister Jr. was an American character actor and occasional professional wrestler. He was best known as the neighborhood bully Deebo in the 1995 film Friday and its 2000 sequel and as President Lindberg in The Fifth Element. He had two short professional wrestling stints, with Hulk Hogan in the World Wrestling Federation after appearing as Zeus in the 1989 movie No Holds Barred. He reprised the role of Obodo in Mario Van Peebles’ Posse, along with Tone Loc. In 2015, Lister filmed Busy Day in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Tommy D. Lister Jr. was an American character actor and occasional professional wrestler. He was best known as the neighborhood bully Deebo in the 1995 film Friday and its 2000 sequel and as President Lindberg in The Fifth Element. He had two short professional wrestling stints, with Hulk Hogan in the World Wrestling Federation after appearing as Zeus in the 1989 movie No Holds Barred, and resuming the feud as Z-Gangsta in 1996 for World Championship Wrestling. He also had a distinguished track and field experience while in college. In his senior year, he won the national shot put title with a mark of over 61 ft 8 in. Lister was the 1982 NCAA Division II National Shot Put Champion. In the last 40 years of his career, his career prospered. He became a spokesperson for Monster Energy Drink for 40 years.
In 2015, Lister filmed Busy Day in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He appeared in the 2016 Disney animated movie Zootopia as the voice of the diminutive fennec fox, Finnick. He played Klaang, the first Klingon ever to make contact with humans, in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. He co-starred in a two-part episode of the courtroom series Matlock as Mr. Matlock’s in-prison bodyguard. He reprised the role of Obodo in Mario Van Peebles’ Posse, along with Tone Loc. He starred in the videos for Young Bleed’s How You Do Dat, French Montana’s I Told ‘Em and 50 Cent’s Many Men. He portrayed Sancho in the Sublime music video Santeria in the Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown, who played bail agent Winston, who \”finds people who don’t want to be found\”.
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