
Aqeel Ash-Shakoor
Acting
Biography
Aqeel Taahir Ash-Shakoor was born in Murfreesboro, NC. He is known for Law & Order: SVU Season 24 (NBC) Precinct Commander Inspector Borsits; FBI Season 5 (CBS) as Geoff, MTA Mechanic; Chicago Med Season 4 (NBC) as Shrapnel Man and Season 7 as FBI Agent Russo; The Staircase (HBO Max) as State Police 2; and A League of Their Own (Prime Original Series) as Pastor Donald Turner. In 2022, in his first major industry big screen production, Aqeel played Frank, a construction worker with great concerns, in "On Sacred Ground." In 2023, Aqeel will play James Farmer in the John Ridley directed "Shirley," based on the life of Shirley Chisholm, played by Regina King.
Known For

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.
FBI

An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases inspired by topical events, forging fiery relationships in the pulse-pounding pandemonium of the emergency room.
Chicago Med

Based on the true events during the 2016 construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota on land that is owned by the Lakota “Sioux” Tribe. The film follows Daniel, a journalist and Afghanistan War military veteran, and Elliot, an oil company executive, who find themselves on opposite sides of the fight during the construction of the contentious pipeline.
On Sacred Ground

Keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer; but sometimes it's hard to tell them apart. When disloyalty, deceit, jealousy and betrayal infiltrate a circle of close friends, secrets are revealed. Bonds are broken, lives are destroyed, everyone is out for revenge and the only person left to trust is yourself.
These Men for Everybody

Following the discovery of a reverend’s body, a retired detective uncovers corruption and murder in a Rust Belt community.
Hayseed

The traumas of childhood differences and disappointments leads two brothers on totally different paths. Finding their way back to one another, will the childhood traumas they've endured be too much and drive them even further apart?
Cain and Abel

This is a TRUE STORY of how lust, love, lies, and sex can lead you down a dark path full of passion, jealousy, hate, betrayals, and ultimately your demise. Yazmin has been in a sexless, loveless marriage for the past two years. She is content but not happy. That is until the charming and powerful Jai comes strolling into her life. He is everything she desires in a man; charming, handsome and with just the right amount of street swag. Little does Yazmin know; Jai is not the man he portrays himself to be. Jai is controlling, abusive and used to getting what he wants by using his power and money to control the people around him. When their two worlds collide, a whirlwind romance will quickly turn into the fight of Yazmin's life.
He Played Me

Teen son of black couple is murdered during a robbery. Murderer gets 40 years and has cute son (6-8yrs). Mother of murdered son wants to take-in/adopt the boy, husband objects. Kid's dad objects.
Turn of the Cheek

It follows two friends who come to a crossroads when one of them decides that street life isn't what he wants.
Street Code Broken

The tragic true story of Doctor Ossian and Gladys Sweet, a prominent young Black couple in 1920s Detroit.
One Sweet Night

Every year on the 4th of July, local rapper Jackpot The Juice, who plays a high octane version of himself, is a self indulgent wanna be rapper famed for putting on a super firework show every single year.
Fireworks Fireworks

Two young girls ready for college find themselves and unpredictable situation when they have to do the unthinkable to survive going to the lives of two young girls who want college and everything and one small situation makes it crazy