American Actor and Comedian, Anthony Anderson celebrates birthday in Ghana

Although Wikipedia lists his birthday as August 15, American actor, producer, creator and all around funnyman, Anthony Anderson on Saturday, August 13 celebrated his 42^nd birthday with fans in Ghana. The actor is in Ghana as the grand host for ‘The Spirited Actor: Search for Africa’s Next Hollywood Star’ reality TV series.

After recording the performance show for the Nigerian contestants and the announcement of the finalists who would head for New York to pursue their Hollywood dreams on Friday, Anthony announced to the audience that the following day was his birthday and he invited the public to come celebrate with him at the Boomerang Nightclub in Accra. And that’s exactly what the Ghanaian fans did on Saturday night when they trooped to the venue for the celebrity bash.

Before the event, Anthony put on his Twitter page, “Ghana come and celebrate my birthday tonight at Boomerang”. And after the celebrations he tweeted, “just getting from birthday celebration in Ghana! i haven’t seen the sun come up in a while!”
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Some of the tweet mentions on his experience in Ghana so far include:

“shoutouts to boomerang, aphrodisiac, exel, and office nightclubs in Ghana! Great night!”

“I’m about to hit the streets of Ghana! Who got the Banku?”

“strange thing happened today a male radio personality called me fine as he was interviewing me. It was a lil awkward to say the least!”

“In Ghana and twitter isn’t working on my crackberry! I was recognized as JayZ today! I guess we do all look alike! looking for my lookalike!”

” Aww shit! My twitter is working for now in Ghana!”

He however seemed to have problems with twitter as he was unable to sent pictures from Ghana to fans and familily on the micro-blogging social network. He wrote, “Sorry tweet fam. Messages are posting but not my pics from Ghana. Damn twitter!”

Anthon Anderson’s television work includes a lead role in the teen series Hang. He had many one-off and guest roles on major series such as NYPD Blue, Malcolm & Eddie, In the House, and Ally McBeal.  He also had many recurring roles on several series such as ‘Til Death and The Bernie Mac Show. He was the central character in the series All About the Andersons, which lasted for one season on The WB. Anderson joined the cast of the long-running NBC crime drama television series, Law & Order in 2008. He previously starred in two other crime series, Fox’s K-Ville and Fox’s cable channel FX’s The Shield.

Since his film debut in Liberty Heights, Anderson has been performing as an actor, often in comedic roles, for many years. Among his more prominent feature films are: Kangaroo Jack, My Baby’s Daddy, Hustle & Flow, and Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London.[6] In June 2010, he was cast in a minor role in Scream 4.

In 2009, Anderson directed a one-minute short film featuring his Law & Order co-star, Jeremy Sisto. The short was made for the Responsibility Project, a joint initiative of NBC and Liberty Mutual Group. The short aired during the Law & Order episode “Reality Bites” on October 16, 2009.

(Bio quoted cautiously from Wikipedia  lol)