Artist. Poet. Activist. Actor.
Omari Hardwick is a multifaceted award winning artist that transcends all mediums and demographics. He started BRAVELIFE PRODUCTION℠, a multimedia production company in 2006.
Hardwick starred for 6 seasons as James 'Ghost' St. Patrick in the critically acclaimed and ratings hit "Power” earning him the 2020, 2019 & 2018 NAACP Image Award for leading actor in a drama series.
In May 2019, his production company BRAVELIFE℠ launched a podcast titled “Poetics” for the Luminary Network. The podcast features deep, in-depth conversations between Omari and rap’s biggest stars including Method Man, 50 Cent, Draymond Green, Dave East, Casanova, Big Daddy Kane, among others.
Upcoming, Hardwick can be seen in the Netflix original film, “Army of the Dead,” written and directed by Zack Snyder. The film takes place following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.
Hardwick recently wrapped production for the upcoming horror-thriller film “Spell,” that follows a man (Hardwick) who crashes his plane while en route to rural Appalachia with his family for a funeral and awakens to find himself totally alone and without his bearings. The film will be released in early 2021.
Additionally, in 2019 he completed “American Skin,” which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. In 2018, Omari starred in Tyler Perry’s Paramount film “Nobody’s Fool” opposite Tiffany Haddish, Max Martini’s “Will Gardner,” “A Boy. A Girl. A Dream: Love on Election Night” and Boots Riley’s dark social comedy “Sorry to Bother You” alongside Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer and Lakeith Stanfield.
His additional film credits include “Shot Caller”, Lionsgate’s “For Colored Girls,” Sony Pictures’ “Sparkle,” indies “Middle of Nowhere” and “I Will Follow,” both for director Ava DuVernay, 20th Century Fox’s “The A-Team,” Lionsgate’s “Kick-Ass” for director Matthew Vaughn, Touchstone’s “Miracle at St. Anna,” reuniting him with director Spike Lee, Touchstone’s “The Guardian” opposite Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher, and Columbia’s “Gridiron Gang.”
On Stage, Hardwick co-wrote and performed a one man show “HerO: A work in progress” at The Billy Holiday theater in 2018. The one night (2 performances), sold out immediately, examined his life, love and loss of a black man growing up in Georgia with big dreams.
In addition, Hardwick is an accomplished musician, poet, and spoken word artist. He has written over 4,000 poems, including “Little Black Boy Wonder,” performed and produced by Hardwick with Marlon Wayans, David Oyelowo, Eriq LaSalle, Jay Ellis, Sugar Shane Mosely, Bill Duke, among others. His full-length album is scheduled to be released later this year.
