Leroy "Twist" Casey
American actor
Leroy Casey (born January 22, 1973) is an American actor who served as DJ for the sketch comedy series In Living Color, from 1991 until 1994.
Career
Casey also appeared in the Keenen Ivory Wayans film A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994) as a young police officer, the Wayans Brothers comedy White Chicks (2004) as Tony, along with actor Terry Crews (of the UPN/The CW series Everybody Hates Chris), and in Dance Flick (2009) as the undercover police officer who arrests a student who was freestyling about a murder he committed. Casey, who has been friends with Shawn Wayans since childhood, also appeared with Shawn and Marlon Wayans in a guest appearance in an episode of The WB comedy The Wayans Bros. (he was credited as Casey Lee), UPN's In the House, opposite LL Cool J, and ABC-TV crime drama series NYPD Blue.
In 2010, Casey appeared in an Internet series titled Punanny Diaries, as the character "James".
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