Grew up on Harlem's 126th Street

Acted on daytime soaps, "The Guiding Light" and "Another World"

First major film role, "Go Tell It On the Mountain" (broadcast on PBS after festival screenings)

Acted on Broadway in "The Boys of Winter", a Vietnam drama

Notable TV guest spot, "Crime Story"

Portrayed Hasting Persuivant in the New York Shakespeare Festival's production of "Richard II"

Played the antagonistic general in director Peter Sellars' English tour of Sophocles' "Ajax"

Acted in regional theater

Breakthrough feature role, Field Marshall Cinque in Paul Schrader's "Patty Hearst"

Debut as a TV series regular, "Men", a short-lived ABC drama

TV-movie debut, "Rising Son", on TNT

Had featured role of Marcellus Ward in "Pulp Fiction"

Co-starred in the hit film "Mission: Impossible"

Starred in the HBO TV-movie "Don King: Only in America"

Co-starred in "Bringing Out the Dead"

Reprised role in "M:I-2", the John Woo-directed sequel to "Mission: Impossible"

Portrayed the somewhat shady boyfriend of the title character's mother in "Baby Boy"

Had recurring role as a drug dealer on the NBC fall series "UC: Undercover"

Played an officer in the L.A.P.D. during the 1992 riots in "Dark Blue"

Starred with Mekhi Phifer in the remake of the 1978 horror film "Dawn of the Dead"

Cast in the USA series "Kojack" as Lieutenant Theo Kojack, a remake of the original 70's series, which starred Telly Savalas

Reprised role for "Mission: Impossible III," opposite Tom Cruise

Cast in "Idlewild" a musical set in the 1930's