Delvon Roe is an actor. He is a retired basketball player who played at Michigan State University. He was listed as a forward. He ended his career in September 2011 after three years at Michigan State due to degenerative knee pain.

High school basketball career

Roe played basketball at St. Edward High School in Lakewood,

Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...

. During his senior season, his team was ranked in the

USA Today ''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virgi ...

Super 25 (national rankings) and rated as a top-5 team in the Midwest. Roe would miss the rest of his high school career with a knee injury. He was one of the top recruits for the class of 2008, rated as a 5-star, 24th overall best player in the nation by Rivals.

College basketball career

Roe started and contributed often for the 2008-2009 Michigan State basketball team, averaging 18 minutes a game on the national runner-up Spartans. He was the only freshman to start in the National Championship Game. Increasingly effective as his knee healed, Roe was eventually named to the Big-Ten All Freshman Team. During the Big Ten Conference season, Roe had an offensive rebounding percentage of 14.0%, a defensive rebounding percentage of 22.3% and an effective field goal percentage of 57.6%. Going back to the 1996-1997 season, the only freshman from a BCS conference to do better than Roe in all three of those categories in conference play was

Kevin Love Kevin Wesley Love (born September 7, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a five-time NBA All-Star Game, All-Star, a two-time member of the All-NBA ...

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

in the 2007-2008 season. In his sophomore season, Roe averaged 6.4 points per game and 5 rebounds per game. During Roe's junior year, 2010–2011, he averaged 6.1 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 1.2 blocks per game. On September 29, 2011, Roe announced he was ending his basketball career due to degenerative knee pain, and would miss his senior year.

Acting career

Roe earned his BFA in acting from Michigan State in two years. Roe played the role of Isaac in the film '' Love and Honor'', which was sold at the

Marché du Film The ''Marché du Film'' (french for "Film Market") is one of the largest film markets in the world.Marc ...

at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.. It premiered in the United States in 2013. Roe was under contract for the fil
"Race to Judgement"
a story covering the real-life 1973 murder of a young black woman in

Howell, Michigan Howell is the largest city and county seat of Livingston County, Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 9,489. The city is mostly surrounded by Howell Township, but the two are administered autonomously. Howell is part o ...

, that centers on the involvement of the Ku Klux Klan and Rev. Robert Miles, who was once a grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. Delvon is to play the role of Tre, the older brother of the murder victim. In 2019, he began a recurring role on the new BET TV series '' Games People Play''.

References

External links

*
Michigan State Spartans bioSynopsis for the movie: Race to Judgment, and Roe's role of "Tre"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Roe, Delvon 1989 births Living people African-American male actors American male actors Basketball players from Ohio Michigan State Spartans men's basketball players Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball) Power forwards (basketball) Small forwards Sportspeople from Lakewood, Ohio St. Edward High School (Lakewood, Ohio) alumni American men's basketball players 21st-century African-American people 20th-century African-American people