Biografía

Second cousin of Viola Davis. His paternal grandmother and her maternal grandfather were siblings.

His brother is a secret service agent.

Gained 30lbs by the time Marvel's Luke Cage began filming.

Received his M.F.A. from Rutgers University in 2001 with classmate Andrea Anders.

Graduated from Calhoun County High School where he was voted most ambitious in his Senior Class.

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.

Ridley Scott was part of the production team on 'The Good Wife.' I auditioned on my iPhone, and it moved very quickly after that, as they thought I was right for the role, and pretty soon I was filming in Iceland for two months.

I'm always game for creating a new character, and I liked the idea of putting something new into the 'Halo' universe.