At the age of 8, Khalid began learning how to channel his creative energy into local theater productions with The Finest! in Rockville, MD. He soon expanded his horizons - traveling to various cities for theater and eventually working his way into film and television.Khalid has performed in the DC Black Theater Festival, as well as on stages in Auburn and Tampa with A Change Gon' Come; an original work by Kashi Tara about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, and at the Union County Performing Arts Center with Stop the Funeral. With a penchant for humor, Khalid also once played both Homer and Arable in Charlotte's Web - talking to "himself" and switching characters with the switch of a hat.Khalid can be seen in a NBC Universal Campaign for the Amazing Spider Man 2 (2014) movie and a series of commercials for Al Packer Ford, playing opposite Baltimore Ravens Quarterback Joe Flacco. In Beneath the Surface, premiered at the Court Metrage (Festival De Cannes 2014), Khalid and Homeland's Danny Boushebel play a middle-eastern father-son duo who get bullied in a subway station.When not on stage or filming, Khalid can be seen performing with his sister at local restaurants and coffeehouses in the DC area, performing his original raps with his friends at school, or composing and recording his own music. Although piano and drums are his favorites, Khalid has never met an instrument he doesn't absolutely love. Show less «