AKA: Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder, C.C.H. Pounder
Nationality: Guyanese
Birthdate: 12/25/1952
Birthplace: Georgetown, Guyana
biography
Though she was a busy performer in a variety of film and television roles for decades, actress CCH Pounder finally found her defining role when she was cast as the morally upright Detective Claudette Wyms on the dark, gritty cop show, “The Shield” (FX, 2002-08). Prior to that role, Pounder spent her illustrious career playing quiet, yet tough-as-nails women usually in positions of authority, as she did in a recurring capacity on television shows like “L.A. Law” (NBC, 1986-1994) and “ER” (NBC, 1994-2009). But it was her seven years playing Wyms, whose determination to take down crooked cop Vic
