Background
Britt-Gibson was born in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is the son of author Donna Britt and her first husband.
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He attended University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he studied theater.
Career
Britt-Gibson has one full brother, Justin Britt-Gibson, and one half-brother, Skye Merida, from his mother"s remarriage to Kevin Merida. Britt-Gibson made his acting debut in the recurring role of Darius "O-Dog" Hill on Home Box Office"s crime drama television series The Wire, starring in 8 episodes from 2006 to 2008. He then appeared in the film Toe to Toe (2009) as Leron, and 2 episodes of the web series Monday Wednesday Friday, also writing one of the episodes in which he starred.
He has also guest-starred in episodes of many television series, such as Southland in the episode "God"s Work", Shameless in the episode "Cascading Failures", The Bridge in the episode "The Beetle", and Major Crimes in the episode "Risk Assessment".
In 2014, Britt-Gibson had recurring roles on the series Californication as Darrell, Power as Rolla, and You"re the Worst as Shitstain. Britt-Gibson was cast in the pilot of American Broadcasting Company"s crime drama series Wicked City in the role of Diver Hawkes, but was subsequently recast after the pilot was ordered to series.
In June 2015, he joined the cast of the upcoming comedy film Keanu, portraying a character named Trunk.
