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Home • Love & Sex

Eye Candy: Michael Ealy

Eye Candy: Michael Ealy
By Essence · Updated October 28, 2020
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Michael Ealy Lays Down the Law

We just can’t ever get enough of Michael Ealy, and we couldn’t be happier about it. Following on the heels of the success of his latest film Think Like A Man, Ealy starred in Common Law, a police drama on USA. Ealy played a sexy cop named Travis who caught the bad guys by day and the ladies by night.

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Tender Kisses

Ealy perfected his pout years ago and it only get more irresistible with time. This is certainly one of his smoothest moments.

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Opposites Attract

Ealy shows off his signature swag on the set of Common Law.

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Am I Dreaming?

Ealy’s electric blue stare is the ultimate distraction.

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A Man’s Man

Hot hunk Ealy, who hails from Silver Spring, Maryland, appears minus a shirt and wearing a smile more than a few times during the hit film Think Like A Man. Click that “like” button if you’re as excited for the sequel as we are.

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Born to Act

Ealy has had more delicious (and well-acted) roles than we could name in one caption, but if you’re a true fan of his work, you’ll never forget his standout performances in films like Their Eyes Were Watching God, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Miracle at St. Anna, and For Colored Girls. Now he’s leaving his mark on television.

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Multiple Personalities

Ealy can be whomever his fans need him to be on screen — effortlessly sliding between roles like the smooth lover boy he played in Think Like A Man to the no-nonsense cop, like his role in 2012’s Underworld: Awakening.

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Red Carpet Swag

When Ealy hits the red carpet he’s dripping swagu — especially in his signature paper boy hats.

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Mind Your Business

Michael Ealy attended the premiere of Screen Gems’ Underworld Awakening in Los Angeles in 2011 looking as dapper as ever in his three-piece suit. Whether he’s going for casual or formal, this brother’s always the number one stunner.

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A New Look

The ESSENCE Music Festival always brings out all of the cuties — in 2010, Ealy showed up with a new edgier, unshaven look and the ladies’ were pleasantly surprised.

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Eyes to the Sky

Michael Ealy sizzled in the 2005 made for TV movie Their Eyes Were Watching God, in which he played a hopeless romantic in the ’20s opposite Halle Berry.

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2 Cute

Remember his turn in 2 Fast to Furious as Slap Jack? He let his fro glow and his arms show.

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A Cut Above the Rest

In 2002 and 2004 cornrowed cutie Ealy played reformed bad body Ricky Nash in Barbershop and Barbershop 2.

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