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• Was a running back on his high-school football team.
• Originally wanted to study medicine until he saw the film Glory, which inspired him to pursue a career in acting.
• Played the role of Lovborg in Ellie Heyman's stage production of Hedda Gobler.
• In 2011, played the roles of Elegba and Marcus in Company One's trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays for which he won the Elliot Norton Award from the Boston Theater Critics Association for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Small/Fringe Theater.
• Performed the role of Mr. Antrobus in a stage production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth in 2013.
• Introduced Forest Whitaker when he was honored at Boston University as a Martin Luther King Fellow in 2013.