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Daniel Sunjata Born December 30, 1971
Evanston, IllinoisDaniel Sunjata (born Daniel Sunjata Condon;[1] December 30, 1971) is an American actor who performs in film, television and in the theater.
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Career
Sunjata played the role of a sailor on shore leave on the first post-9/11 themed episode of Sex and The City. He has portrayed Langston Hughes in the film Brother to Brother and James Holt, a fictitious fashion designer in The Devil Wears Prada. He starred as firefighter Franco Rivera on the television program Rescue Me. During the summer of 2007, he also starred in the ESPN miniseries The Bronx is Burning as Reggie Jackson. He was recently cast by Christopher Nolan for an unspecified role in The Dark Knight Rises.
In 2003, he won a Theatre World Award for his breakout Broadway performance as a gay Major League Baseball player who comes out to the public in Take Me Out, the Tony award-winning play, which also earned him nominations for a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award.
Personal life
Of Irish, German, and African-American heritage, Sunjata grew up in Chicago, the adopted son of a police dispatcher and a civil rights worker. He graduated from Mount Carmel High School in Chicago, where he played linebacker for two state championship football teams. He completed his undergraduate studies at Florida A&M University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He then received his master's degree in fine arts from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
9/11 Related Activity
In 2009, the fifth season of Rescue Me includes a 9/11 Truth subplot focused through the character of Franco Rivera (played by Sunjata) who stirs up controversy in the firehouse when he announces to a journalist that he firmly believes 9/11 was an inside job.[2]
On April 30, 2009, Daniel Sunjata announced his participation as narrator in Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup, a film directed by Dylan Avery and produced by Korey Rowe and Matthew Brown.[3]
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes 1998 Twelfth Night, or What You Will Valentine 2000 D.C. Lewis Freeman 2000 to
2004Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Bomb Squad Officer (2000)
CSU Technician Burt Trevor (2002–2004)2001 All My Children Zachary Pell 2001 The Feast of All Saints Christophe Mercier 2002 ToCA Race Driver Nick Landers/James Randall (voice) 2002 Bad Company Officer Carew 2002 Sex and the City
season 5, Anchors Away episode 67Louis Leroy, the Navy sailor 2003 Take Me Out Darren Lemming 2003 Theatre World Award,
Nominated - Tony Award
Nominated - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor2003 Ed
episode The CaseDanny Martin 2004 Melinda and Melinda Billy 2004 Noel Marco 2004 Brother to Brother Langston Hughes 2004 to
2011Rescue Me Franco Rivera 2005 Law & Order
Season 15, Episode 12Kenny Tremont Appeared with Rescue Me co-star Andrea Roth 2006 Love Monkey Diego 2006 The Devil Wears Prada James Holt 2007 The Bronx Is Burning Reggie Jackson 2008 Cyrano de Bergerac Christian de Neuvillette 2009 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Brad 2009 Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup Himself, Narrator Released on September 22, 2009 2009 Lie To Me Andrew Jenkins 2010 Patricia Cornwell's At Risk and The Front Detective Win Garano 2010 30 Rock Chris 2010- present Grey's Anatomy Nurse Eli 2012 One for the Money Ranger aka Ricardo Carlos Manoso 2012 Gone Powers References
- ^ "Daniel Sunjata on www.filmreference.com". http://www.filmreference.com/film/11/Daniel-Sunjata.html. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
- ^ Stelter, Brian. “The Political Suspicions of 9/11,” The New York Times. February 1, 2009.
- ^ Gil, Billy. “Microcinema Gets Rights to ‘Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup’,” Home Media Magazine. 4 May 2009.
External links
- Daniel Sunjata at the Internet Movie Database
- Daniel Sunjata at the Internet Broadway Database
- Philly
- Variety
Audio Interviews on 9/11:
- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3444675507397031384&q=daniel+sunjata+mark+dice
- http://www.radiodujour.com/people/sunjata_daniel
Categories:- 9/11 conspiracy theorists
- 1971 births
- African American actors
- American film actors
- American television actors
- American people of German descent
- American people of Irish descent
- People from Chicago, Illinois
- Living people
- New York University alumni
- People from Evanston, Illinois
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni
- American adoptees
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