As with his music, Mos Def has demostrated insight and passion in his acting career, appearing in Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" (2000), MTV's "Carmen: A Hip Hopera" (2001), the critically acclaimed "Monster's Ball" (2001), and the romantic comedy, "Brown Sugar" (2002) for which he received an NAACP Image Award nomination. That same year, he completed his Broadway debut in the Tony nominated, Pulitzer Prize-winning, "Top Dog/Underdog." In addition to performing, Mos Def hosted, co-executive produced and served as musical director for the HBO series, "Def Poetry Jam," as well as served as a writer, producer and actor on the MTV sketch comedy series "The Lyricist Lounge" (2000). In 2003, Mos Def successfully added comedy relief to the crime action feature, "The Italian Job," which starred Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron, and he appeared in the hard-hitting women-in-prison drama "Civil Brand." After psychologically antagonizing Kevin Bacon’s convicted child molester in “The Woodsman” (2004), he played the cynical, hard-drinking galactic hitchhiker Ford Prefect in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxay” (2005), the long-awaited film adaptation of Douglas Adams’ famed sci-fi novels.