- His maternal grandfather was former Major League baseball player "Marvelous" Marv Throneberry (1933-1994), a feared Minor League power-hitter but best remembered as an integral part of the legendarily inept 1962 New York Mets.
- Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Terrence Howard in Hustle & Flow (2005).
- Spent most of his childhood in Memphis, Tennessee.
- He named his favorite films as Matewan (1987), The Blues Brothers (1980), The Celebration (1998), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Purple Rain (1984).
- His mother, Gail Brewer, was Meredith Patterson's drama teacher at College Park High School in Pleasant Hill, California.
- Named among Fade In Magazine's "100 People in Hollywood You Need to Know" in 2005.
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