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Actor/choreographer Columbus Short was born in 1982 in Kansas City, Missouri, but moved to Los Angeles when he was five years old. Columbus began his career in Youth Theater and went to attend Orange County High School for the Arts. He made his film debut as a dancer in the 2004 breakdancing movie "You Got Served," and this led to the role of Hands in the college comedy film "Accepted." His television credits include guest parts in the shows "ER," "Judging Amy," and "That's So Raven," and the major role as apprentice writer Darius Hawthorne on the NBC series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip." Columbus is best known for being the choreographer for the Britney Spears' "In the Zone" tour, and in 2004 he was nominated for an American Choreography Award.

A screen performer from his early twenties, Columbus Short began his career as a movie actor with somewhat conventional roles in youth-oriented films, such as the twin 2006 releases Save the Last Dance 2 and Accepted. He worked his way into more serious and substantial material in the years to follow, however -- beginning with the series role of Darius on Aaron Sorkin's critically-praised but short-lived show business drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006). Short received critical kudos and added attention for his contribution to the family-oriented ensemble comedy This Christmas, playing an African American man who arrives at his family's home to celebrate the yuletide holiday -- sans telling them that he has married a Caucasian woman. Additional assignments included the lead role in Quarantine (2008), directors John E. Dowdle and Drew Dowdle's remake of the Spanish horror film [REC in director Darnell Martin's ambitious homage to the blues in 1950s Chicago, Cadillac Records (2008). Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide



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