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Romany Romanic Malco Jr. (born November 18, 1968) is an American actor, rapper, and music producer. He has been nominated for several awards, including an NAACP Image Award, MTV Movie Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. In film, he is best known for his roles in The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Baby Mama (2008), Think Like a Man (2012) and its sequel Think Like a Man Too (2014), and The DUFF (2015). In television, he is best known for portraying Conrad Shepard on the Showtime series Weeds (2005–2012) and Rome Howard on the ABC series A Million Little Things (2018–2023). He is also known for writing the rap lyrics for the character of MC Skat Kat in "Opposites Attract".Romany Malco interview, Wendy Williams Show, October 29, 2013.
As a young boy, Malco moved to Baytown, Texas, and he attended Ross S. Sterling High School.
Malco served in the United States Marine Corps from 1987 to 1991.
In 2008, he married former ice skater Taryn Dakha, the stunt/body double for Jessica Alba. They met in 2007 on the set of the 2008 film The Love Guru.
In 2015, Malco decided to move to Puerto Rico while filming Mad Dogs there. During an interview on ABC's The Chew, Malco said he "couldn't leave" and that living on the island made him feel he was "living the dream".
Malco has a son, born in 2021.
Malco is often mistakenly credited for performing one of the raps as MC Skat Kat on the Grammy Award–winning "Opposites Attract", a duet with Paula Abdul. On October 29, 2013, Malco told Wendy Williams that he wrote the rap, but did not perform it. He mentioned running into Paula Abdul and asking her, "Who keeps telling people that I'm the cat?" and she responded, "I do, it makes a better story." Malco said that Derrick "Delite" Stevens was the one that rapped the duet with Abdul.
He appeared in 2011's A Little Bit of Heaven and the Gulliver's Travels adaptation. In the fall of 2010, Malco appeared as a member of the ABC primetime one-hour drama No Ordinary Family. He also appeared as a guest host on the popular YouTube series, Equals Three, on the episode "T-Painful".
In 2013, he played a concierge in the movie Last Vegas, alongside Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline, and Michael Douglas.
Malco played Rome Howard on the ABC series A Million Little Things until the series ended.
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| Video short |
| Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Team (shared with Steve Carell, Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd) |
| Also writer and director |
| Episode: "Redeeming Love" |
| Episode: "The Hair Club for Men" |
| Series regular |
| Television movie |
| Episode: "Jive Turkey" |
| Series regular in seasons 1–3, season 8 guest star |
| Voice only, episode: "Camp Refoogee" |
| Episode: "The Case of the Lonely White Dove" |
| Series regular |
| 3 episodes |
| 10 episodes |
| 3 episodes |
| Series regular, voice only |
| 2 episodes |
| Episode: "Alien Impostors" |
| 12 episodes |
| Series regular |
| Series regular |
| Guest star, episode #77: "The Science of Triumph" |
| Guest star, episode #122: "The Belt Guru" |
| Guest star, episode #199: "Romany Malco" |
| Guest star, season #4 episode #12: "Romany Malco (The Black Guy from Everything) and Anthony Jeselnik" |
| Guest Host, episode 'T-Painful': "Romany Malco" |
| Guest, episode #202: "Romany Malco, David Huntsberger" |
| Guest, episode # 509: "Romany Malco" |
| Guest, episode # 135: "Prison Logic Attack (w/ Romany Malco)" |
| Guest, episode "How would you wear breaks off a p***y?" |
MTV Movie Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards
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