33 Facts About Meagan Good

Meagan Monique Good was born on August 8,1981 and is an American actress and model.

Meagan Good first gained critical attention for her role in the film Eve's Bayou prior to landing the role of Nina in the Nickelodeon sitcom Cousin Skeeter.

In 2012, Meagan Good featured in an ensemble cast of the film Think Like a Man.

Meagan Good co-produced and starred in Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black for Amazon Prime Video.

Meagan Good was born on August 8,1981 in the Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Meagan Good's mother, Tyra Wardlow-Doyle, worked as Good's manager into her teens, and her father, Leondis "Leon" Good, is an LAPD police officer.

Meagan Good was raised in Canyon Country, California.

Meagan Good has three siblings, including older sister and fellow actress La'Myia Good.

Meagan Good began her acting career around the age of four.

When she was 13, Meagan Good was cast in her first film, the 1995 comedy Friday.

Meagan Good first gained critical recognition for her performance as the troubled teen Cisely Batiste in Kasi Lemmons' 1997 film Eve's Bayou; she received two award nominations, including her first NAACP Image Award nomination.

From 1998 to 2001, Meagan Good appeared as Nina on Nickelodeon's TV show Cousin Skeeter.

Meagan Good believes she was able to move into adult roles due to playing characters several years younger than her.

In 2003, a major year for Meagan Good, she landed roles in the action-drama Biker Boyz and the romantic-comedy Deliver Us from Eva, which helped her transition from child to adult actress.

Meagan Good appeared as the character Vanessa for one season of My Wife and Kids, before being replaced by another actor.

Meagan Good had small roles in the teen dance film You Got Served, and Lance "Un" Rivera's directorial debut, The Cookout.

In 2005, Meagan Good co-starred in the horror film Venom, as well as the well-received neo noir film Brick.

In 2006, Meagan Good played the role of Coco, which she felt was her first true lead actress role, in the urban action-drama Waist Deep.

Meagan Good voiced a character for the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours that same year.

In 2008, Meagan Good appeared in the horror film One Missed Call as an ill-fated college student, Shelley Baum.

In 2010, Meagan Good started her own production company, Freedom Bridge Entertainment, with Marlon Olivera and fellow actors Tamara Bass and Ty Hodges.

Meagan Good was part of the ensemble cast in 2012's Think Like a Man, a movie based on Steve Harvey's 2009 book Act like a Lady, Think like a Man.

In 2013, Meagan Good starred in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.

Meagan Good returned to television from January to March 2013, starring in Deception after being contacted by her agents about the series while leaving a hair salon.

Meagan Good wore a royal blue dress designed by Michael Costello to the June 30,2013 BET Awards ceremony.

The dress was controversial because Meagan Good was presenting the BET Award for Best Gospel Artist.

Meagan Good responded on Instagram, expressing sadness that judgment had been passed on her, her character and her then-husband DeVon Franklin over what she wore to the ceremony.

Meagan Good said she picked the dress because she liked it and tried to express her individuality in her dress.

In 2014, Meagan Good reprised her role for Think Like a Man Too, the sequel to Think Like a Man.

Meagan Good appeared in the movies Monster Hunter and Day Shift.

In 2024, Meagan Good had a lead role in Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black.

At age 22, Meagan Good chose to focus on her career rather than dating, as she explained in a 2004 interview.

In 2011, Meagan Good began dating DeVon Franklin, an executive for Columbia Pictures and a Seventh-day Adventist preacher.