Romany Malco: Where you’ve seen him

Where you’ve seen him Romany Malco’s breakthrough performance came in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” as Jay, the friend who actually has success with women. Notable appearances include: “Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story,” as the balloon-trousered rapper; “The Tuxedo”; “Blades of Glory”; “The Love Guru” and the first three seasons of Showtime’s “Weeds.” His rap group College Boyz had a hit in 1991 with “Victim of the Ghetto”; he went on to produce for CeCe Peniston, Randy Crawford and others. The fitness-minded Malco then launched an herbal-supplement Internet venture he says was wildly successful, but while working on music for John Leguizamo’s film “The Pest” (1997), Leguizamo persuaded him to try acting. “If it wasn’t for that man . . . ,” he says, shaking his head, “I’d probably own a building on Sunset.” -- Michael Ordoña