Don Wallace(III)

Prior to acting Don was an amateur and professional boxer, coming out of the famed Gleasons gym in Brooklyn New York; and was trained by hall of fame trainers Bob Jackson, Al Gavin, as well as Ring 8 trainer of the year Hector Roca. Don started boxing at 11 years old at the Foster Laurie PAL and won his first championship at age 12, winning the New York City kid gloves championship in Madison square garden. Don went on to win The New York City Spanish Gloves championship, was a two time Police athletic league champion, New York city Parks and recreation champion and was a New York City Daily news golden gloves finalist. Don also fought on the New York City/USA boxing team where he fought in Norway, Trinidad and Holland and then boxed several years in the professional ranks. Don started his acting career in the New York theater, performing in playhouses such as; LaMama theaters, Provincetown playhouse and Eugene O'Neil theater as well as many others. Don honed his craft at The new actors workshop, Robert X Modica studios with Robert Modica, Peter Miner, who was also a mentor and the late great Wynn Handman at Wynn Handman studios. Don soon landed roles on the small screen, his first role was a recurring guest star on the hit CBS show Dellaventura. His breakout role on the big screen was playing the role of "Ty" in the controversial Mirimax film A price above rubies, opposite, two time Oscar winning actress Renee Zellwegger and directed by award winning director Boaz Yakin. Don went on to play more roles on television and film and soon landed the role of Bugsy in the Charles Dutton directed, three time Emmy award winning HBO mini series The corner . Soon after moving to Los Angeles Don got an opportunity to showcase his boxing skills on the hit series Resurrection Blvd where he landed a recurring role opposite Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr. He also went on to guest star on many more network shows including NCIS New York, Cold Case, The Forgotten, Blue Bloods, Rookie feds, The Black Hamptons and so many others playing a variety of dynamic roles as well as leading and supporting roles in films. Don is also a writer, producer and wrote, produced and starred in the award winning feature film Blue the American Dream, where he met his wife and co star Daya Vaidya. The film won the Grand Jury prize for best film in the Hollywood Black film festival and audience award winner at the American Black film festival, winner of Newark international film festival, as well as being entered into the Chicago international film festival and was then bought by both Showtime and Starz cable networks. Don has also written and been supervising producer on a show for BET networks that has yet to be released. Don continues acting, writing and producing and was also recurring on the hit show NCIS Los Angeles where he played navy seal senior chief Frank Wallace on CBS network and also landed a recurring on All American as MIckey on the CW network. Don is also recurring on the Carl Webber, BET+ hit show The family business New Orleans, where he plays chief of staff Fontaine opposite Nicholas Turturro