Felton Eugene Kennedy II was born in Detroit, but grew up in Los Angeles with his mother until he was six years of age.

[2] Kennedy soon moved to Los Angeles and began to guest star on several shows including Six Feet Under, Blind Justice, Barbershop, Love, Inc., NYPD Blue, The Shield, Weeds and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

In 2005, Kennedy won a recurring role on the popular ABC primetime soap opera, Desperate Housewives where he played Caleb Applewhite, a fugitive who was being held captive in his mother Betty's (Alfre Woodard) basement.

Kennedy played Radon Randell, a quarterback starting over the main character, Alex Moran, in the Spike television series Blue Mountain State.

Kennedy played Gerald, the cousin of main character James Carter, on the CBS show Rush Hour.