Desi Banks (born May 9, 1993) is a famous actor, comedian, Instagram Star, YouTube Star, and digital genius known for his unique pranks, challenges, reaction, comedy videos, and vlogs on his channel. ^[1]

Desi Banks was also a popular Vine star and had gotten more than 430,000 followers before the app was no more. ^[2]

Desi Banks was born on May 9, 1993 in Atlanta, Georgia. There is no much information about his family, background and early life. ^[2]

He attended Georgia State University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology .^[3]

He started his career on the Vine app as a social media comedian, posting short comedic videos portraying unique characters like Keshia and Lil Johnny.

Over time he gained huge fame, attracting over 430 thousand followers before the app was discontinued.

He later started his YouTube and uploaded his first video on Mar 16, 2015 titled “Lil Johnny at his auntie/babysitter house.” which gained a lot of views .^[1]

One of his most popular video is “When Your Friend Fresh Out Of Jail” with more than 4.9 million views.

His channel has gained over 934 thousand subscribers.^[1]

He has done many stand up comedies like fresh off of the 30 cities and you’re my boyfriend tour with B.simone.

He developed a passion for acting and desired to go into full-time acting, this inspired him to create Desi Banks production.

His production company has produced over 2,000 original videos currently.

Desi Banks Productions gives writing and production opportunities for aspiring actors and provides a platform to showcase creative compelling content to audiences.

He got his first lead role in the short film Flexin’ which gave him another big supporting role in the movie Love By Chance.

In 2019, he had a role in the Will Packard Production film, Little starring Issa Rae and Regina Hall. ^[3]

He has appeared in other film like Jaded Blueprints, BLOOM, Daddy’s Home and Strangers with memories.

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His acting skills which he continues to improve has led to more appearances and opportunities to audition for leading roles in major films.

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He has over 554 thousand followers on his Twitter account and more than 4.8 million followers on his Instagram accoun t.^[1]

He is in a relationship with someone but he has not mentioned her name.

However, she has a child with him.

On April 1, he posted a picture of the duo captioning