Mario Cain "Chip" Van Peebles (born January 15, 1957) is an American film director and actor best known for directing New Jack City in 1991 and USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage in 2016. He is the son of actor and filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, whom he portrayed in the 2003 biopic Baadasssss!, which he also co-wrote and directed.Mario Cain Van Peebles was born in Mexico City, Mexico, the son of writer, director, actor and musician Melvin Van Peebles and German actress and photographer Maria Marx.Mario graduated from Saint Thomas More School in Connecticut in 1974 and from Columbia University in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in economics.In 2017, he acted in four episodes of Bloodline, one of which he also directed, and he directed an additional episode his character didn't appear in.That year, he created and produced the TV series Superstition, directed eight episodes, and acted in ten, and in some of them he performed both roles.^[

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