\n\tCharles F. Porter, the actor and producer known for backing the 2025 film Finding Faith and playing the titular NASCAR phenom in ESPN\u2019s Wendell Scott: A Race Story, died on Monday after a long battle with cancer. His passing was announced by his wife, Candice Tab-Porter. He was 47. <\/p>\n
\n\tPorter was a multihyphenate in more ways than one. Born in the U.K., he went to college at Duke, where he played defensive end on the school\u2019s football team. After a back injury derailed his NFL hopes, Porter dropped 65 pounds and became an actor.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn the early 2000s, he made appearances on The Parkers, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Bones and House. <\/p>\n
\n\tIn 2011, he landed the lead in Wendell Scott: A Race Story. The ESPN TV movie was based on the story of Wendell Scott, who in 1963 became the first and only African-American to ever win a NASCAR Cup race. Porter was the lead.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n\tHe was also the lead and a producer on Image Entertainment\u2019s 2006 horror thriller Nailed. Additionally, he had a small part in STX\u2019s Jennifer Garner vehicle Peppermint.<\/p>\n
\n\tLast year, Porter produced Lifetime\u2019s Finding Faith starring Paula Patton, Stephen Bishop, Keith David and Nadine Velazquez. He also had a small part in the film as a bartender.<\/p>\n
\n\tPorter is survived by his wife, Candice, and two daughters, Juliette and Layla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles F. Porter, the actor and producer known for backing the 2025 film Finding Faith and playing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,379175,88,10756],"class_list":["post-906433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-charles-porter","tag-entertainment","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}