Khleo Thomas is a former child and teen actor who instantly grabbed the attention of pre-teen and teen girls in 2003 with the release of Disney’s “Holes” where he played the role of Zero. The role made him an instant fan favorite and catapulted him into other roles through the 2000s and into a recording career as a Hip-hop, Contemporary R&B artist.
Before “Holes” the little-known actor had appeared on an episode of Bill Cosby’s “Kids Say the Darndest Things” guest roles on the series “Family Law” and “City Guys” and a small role in the 2002 film “Friday After Next.” Then came “Holes” adapted from Louis Sachar’s Holes of the same name and that changed things.
Thomas was born in Anchorage, Alaska, the son of an army officer who at the time was stationed in Alaska. His mother is a Jewish immigrant from Morocco and his father is African-American Khleo lived in Germany with the family returning to the United States when he was four.
Looking back to the days when this site was still going and there were no other sites that featured young stars and with a Khleo website and a forum the young fans came by the thousands and lifted the forum on Delphi at that time to number two on the entire system and that was not an easy feat.
After “Holes” he landed a role in the film “Baadasssss!” Later that same year and was followed up by a guest spot on the series “E.R.”, the TV movie “Going to the Mat: and the feature film remake “Walking Tall.” The next year his fame continued with roles in the film “Roll Bounce,” “Dirty” and series such as “The Bernie Mac Show.”
His recording career stemmed from the film Holes and the song “Dig It” which garnered some popularity in the music field. Things took off after he became associated with Bow Wow and his LBW label; he also became associated with Soulja Boy’s label SODMG Entertainment. Khleo’s recording career continues to this day kicking off in 2010 with his debut mixtape The World Is a Cartoon which had over 100,000 downloads.
Khleo Thomas continues today to be active with film and television roles.
I appreciate the condense and simple look back info with no sensational gossipy info.
Walking Tall with The Rock was a good kick-butt movie that he was in.
Holes was a very cool movie when I saw it as an 11-year-old at the cinema.
Holes is an awesome movie, I have seen all his early movies on DVD, Rool BOunce, Walking Tall etc. So was he a big hit back then JWillis?
OMG! was I ever in a mad crush with Khleo Thomas back in 2003 when Holes came out. lol here I am now 26 years old. damn it has been 15 years since Holes..wow I feel old AF. 😛