Bronsonn Taylor

Bronsonn "Booda" Taylor is an Actor/ Stuntman. who is originally from Louisiana but was raised primarily in Texas. Bronsonn is known by his family and close associates as Booda Bear (Boo the Bear), earning this moniker for his rough exterior but also his kind heart. While in high school Bronsonn joined the U.S. Army Reserves as a field artilleryman and attended basic combat training during the summer of his junior year. After graduation Bronsonn enlisted as a full time active-duty Soldier, serving the next 25 years in various capacities and duty assignments around the world. While stationed in Japan Bronsonn began his music career as an underground hip hop artist under the stage name Shadeaux and L'il Sleepy. While performing in a nightclub in Yokohama Bay, Bronsonn caught the attention of a concert promoter who signed Bronsonn to open for all the major recording artists touring Japan, most notably Outkast, DMX, Soul 4 Real, and Public Announcement. This earned Bronsonn a recording contracts with PnP Records, Soundboy Entertainment, and Ghetto Soundtracks based in Los Angeles, CA. Unfortunately, Bronsonn's music career was cut short due to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Bronsonn served six combat tours of duty as an artilleryman, radio operator, geospatial intelligence analyst, and aerial reconnaissance surveillance (drone strike) team leader. Bronsonn was also a competitive heavy weight bodybuilder for the National Physique Committee (NPC) bodybuilding competition under the name "Beast Bronsonn." As a bodybuilder Bronsonn earned endorsements from seven sports nutrition and apparel companies, receiving a pre-workout supplement aptly named "Beast Blu" in his honor by UXO supplements. While transitioning out of the military a friend mentioned that a movie production company was searching for a compelling military story to include in their documentary. After interviewing hundreds of applicants, Bronsonn was selected as a feature story and the face of "The Portal," which subsequently led to a book publishing deal. After filming The Portal, Bronsonn began attending acting classes at Actor's Breakthrough in Atlanta Georgia, founded by accomplished veteran actor Greg-Alan Williams. Williams signed Bronsonn to his agency, Alan Artists, after his first semester. Bronsonn also attended stunt and fight training to hone the skills he learned from the military and apply them to acting. Bronsonn is credited with choreographing and performing stunts for "The Premier," "Home," "Blood or Not," and "Inimicus." Bronsonn is a certified expert on small arms; automatic weapons; weapons safety; close quarters combat (hand-to-hand); stage combat; military tactics and procedures; drama training; Cajun dialect which he used in Joe Kenda's Homicide Hunter; African (Nigerian) dialect that he utilized in the Nollywood production, Vengeance; boxing, martial arts, and football. Since beginning his acting career in the fall of 2019 Bronsonn has appeared in 50 television, film, theater, and commercial projects. Perhaps his most notable roles are the Mr. Perry's bodyguard in Buried in Barstow and Leo the thug in the hit stage play A Gentleman, A Lady, and A Thug. Bronsonn identifies as a method actor and has been lauded for his authenticity. Bronsonn's acting philosophy is "If you do not fully embrace the character you are portraying to the point that your own family and close friends cannot tell you apart from your role then you are not fully committed which will supremely effect the delivery, subsequently causing you to fail."