Tommy Lister Jr. - Wikipedia

Lister was mostly recognized as the antagonist known as Deebo from 1995's Friday.[10] He reprised the role in the film's sequel, Next Friday (2000), but did not appear in the third film of the series, Friday After Next (2002). He did, however, appear in Cube's directorial debut The Players Club. He played the role of Obodo in Mario Van Peebles' Posse (1993), along with Tone Loc.[9]

Lister had numerous guest appearances on TV series, including playing Klaang, the first Klingon to make contact with humans, in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.[11] He co-starred in a two-part episode of the courtroom series Matlock as Mr. Matlock's in-prison bodyguard. He appeared in season 7 episode 9 of In the Heat of the Night,[12] and in season 1 episode 15 of ER. He also starred in the sitcom 1st & Ten as Otis.

Lister's film roles included playing in The Dark Knight[8] and Austin Powers in Goldmember.[10][11] Lister was featured in The Fifth Element as the Galactic President.[8][13][14] He appeared in the Adam Sandler film Little Nicky as Nicky's older brother Cassius.[12]

Lister was the main police officer in Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" video and reprised his role as a police officer in Chamillionaire's 2012 single "Show Love". He has appeared in the Ice Cube videos for "Friday" (from the Friday soundtrack) and "You Can Do It" (from the Next Friday soundtrack). Lister appeared via both original footage and clips from the film. He was in the videos for Young Bleed's "How You Do Dat", French Montana's "I Told 'Em" and 50 Cent's "Many Men (Wish Death)". Lister portrayed Sancho in the Sublime music video "Santeria".[12]

In the Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown,[15] he played bail agent Winston, who "finds people who don't want to be found". In 2015, Lister filmed Busy Day in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[16] Lister had a supporting role in the 2016 Disney animated movie Zootopia as the voice of the diminutive fennec fox, Finnick.[8] He appeared in a commercial that year for Ball Park-brand beef jerky, advertised as "tough, but tender."[8][17]

In the 40 years of his acting career, Lister accumulated more than 200 acting credits.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]

Cast as a habitual "bad guy" in films, his career prospered. He was a frequent collaborator with Ice Cube. Lister later became the spokesperson for Monster Energy Drink in the 2010s.[33]