- Height1.82 m
- Ricky Watson is an African American European stage, television, and film actor.
He was raised on the Delmarva Peninsula in North America. Upon relocating to Europe, he began to work initially in theatre, leading to the role of Thrash in the original cast for the Tony award-winning stage production "Rocky the Musical".
Ricky's introduction to feature films was for the role of Smitty in the Starz! production hit "Joe & Max," followed by "Speed Racer", "Race" and in the award-winning film "I'll Find You". Ricky shot his first starring film role in the independent Western cult classic "Snowblind", which won Best International Film at the Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival.
He also starred in RTL's TV hit series "All What Counts" as Dan Holbroke, Moritz' heartfelt African American father in search of forgiveness for past failures and longing for a new beginning. This character role in turn is followed by Ben, a brash New York busker in the award-winning film "I'll Find You," encouraging Rachel to re-awake her artistic passion. Then, most recently Ricky's role as Paul Tix in the Primetime Emmy-award winning "The Queen's Gambit", giving into Beth's subduing habituation.- IMDb mini biography by: Firmworthy Productions
- Sonorous, chasmic voice
- Brobdingnagian booty
- Tapdancer.
- Trained at the boxing club, Sparta 58 in Berlin, Germany for the roll of Joe Louis in the musical "The Fight of the Century".
- Learned to play the guitar for, composed, and performed the song "Up In The Mountains" in a scene for Snowblind.
- Graduate of The University of Michigan.
- Musical performer.
- [about the role in Queen's Gambit]: "To coin the words of the late, great Hattie McDaniel, I'd rather play a garçon than be one."
- [on his tap dance mentor Brenda Bufalino] Brenda noted simply, though quite poignantly, "Don't be a hack." At the time of my North European experience, that was one of the best things she could have said to me.
- [when interviewed for the project I'll Find You] "The female protagonist had what was unjustly taken away from her finally given back."
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