Sean Blakemore- Bio, Net worth, Movies, Wife, 10 Unknown Facts

Sean Blakemore is an incredibly talented individual who has worked hard for the recognition he now enjoys in the movie industry today. For someone who started off his career in entertainment as a model, and someone who started off his acting career with nothing but his determination and skills behind him, he has sure come a long way. After several years of nominations, Sean has gone ahead to win his first Daytime Emmy Award in 2016.

Biography of Sean Blakemore

Born on the 10th of August 1967 in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S, Sean was the 5th child of his parents 7 children. He has 5 sisters (Kim, Sharon, Yvonne, Yvette, and Rechelle) and one brother (Ronnell) and they were all single-handedly raised by their mother. He attended Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis.

What is his Net worth?

Blakemore has been in the movie industry for more than two decades and has featured is several successful roles. According to reports, his net worth is estimated to be around $3 million.

Movies

Blakemore has had quite a career in the movie industry with his first appearance as Grace’s husband in the 1996 movie titled Soul of the Game. He has gone ahead to feature in 15 films, 4 videos and 35 television series.

Some of his very notable roles include the role of Shawn Butler in General Hospital. Even though he was on a contract role between 2011 to 2016 when he appeared on the show, his role got him loads of recognition including a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2012 before he finally won the award in 2016. Moreover, he was a part of OWN’s Greenleaf season 4 and 5 where he featured as Phillip Demars, who works for Harmony & Hope.

In 2002, he featured in the romantic drama film Big Ain’t Bad as Ric Jackson and won an Auds honours at the Hollywood Black Film Festival for his performance.

His other movie roles are in Can’t Let Go (2001), Dahmer (2002), Keepin’ It Real (2003), Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004), Hot Tamale (2006), Blackout, Young Cesar (2007), Columbus Day (2008), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Ad Astra (2019) just to mention a few.

Meet the Wife of Sean Blakemore

Sean Blakemore is a private person and has kept personal details about himself and his family from the media. Despite all this, it is known that he married Nadyia Jones on the 19th of June 2010. After being together for 3 years, the couple welcomed a daughter (Jersey Nariah) in May 2013.

Facts You Didn’t Know About Him

1. Life growing up

After his Emmy win in 2016, Sean shared rare insights about how life was while growing up and how privileged he felt to have been successful enough to win an Emmy. According to him, his mother was dumped at age 25 to raise 7 children all by herself. They lived in extreme poverty for several years but in all, she taught them to be self-sufficient, to have self-respect which has led all of them to lead successful lives today.

2. Modelling Career

Even though Sean has grown to become the actor that we celebrate today, he didn’t start out his career in entertainment in acting. While relating his experience, he shared that he once had a very successful modelling career but he chose to move to Los Angeles in July 1998, to pursue his dream of acting.

3. Sean Blakemore has had a career as an artist

Asides acting which he obviously enjoys doing, one of Sean’s other hobbies is painting. Ironically, he has been able to monetize this aspect of his career and his works have earned him several awards and have been sold and featured is various galleries all around the world.

4. He is a humanitarian

For more than fifteen years now, Sean has worked with several charities on projects that he continues to hold dear. Some of them include Habitat for Humanity, LA.org, My Friends’ House,  Feed the Homeless LA and Portfolio Gallery Mentorship amongst others. Sean has never been shy to air his views and is of the opinion that we all need to get involved to evolve. He continues to lend his voice to youth advocacy in the United States.

5. Social media

Sean is quite active on social media especially Instagram with more than 4616k followers and Twitter where he has close to 20k followers. He uses his page to share his views about politics and sports which are of great interest to him.

6. Physique of Sean Blakemore

From all indications, Sean does work hard to keep fit. He has an athletic physique with broad shoulders and well-muscled arms. It must take a lot of work to keep in shape but for a man like Sean, whose wife is a fitness instructor that shouldn’t be difficult.

7. Sean accredits his success to the values his mother instilled in him while growing up

He describes his mother as an incredible person who taught him and his siblings respect, elegance, pride, proper diction, proper presentation, positivity and to always remain strong. She was their protector, comfort, healer, the voice of reasoning, encourager, love and their everything. All her investments are what has contributed to the success he enjoys in his career today.

8. Love for family

Even though he is constantly in the public eye due to the nature of his work. Sean is a dedicated family man and he tries as much as possible to protect his family from media scrutiny. Although he has on some rare occasions shared pictures of his daughter on his page.

9. Sean’s wife also has a career in entertainment but as a dancer

Nadyia Jones Blakemore has featured in a number of movies as a dancer. Some of them include Days of Our Lives (2011), Gangster Squad (2013), and Walk At Home’s New Year’s Walk Challenge (2018). She is a certified group fitness and prenatal/postnatal fitness instructor. She is also a very dynamic performer, choreographer, author and the CEO of Nadyia Blakemore Empowerment Fitness.

10. Even Sean was surprised by his first DaytimeEmmmyAward nomination

When Sean got his first Emmy nomination, he was as shocked as his counterparts as he hadn’t been on the show for a long time. Even though he didn’t win the award in 2012, according to him, he was excited to be recognized and it was such an honour and humbling experience.

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