Eriq La Salle

Eriq La Salle (right), Born and raised in Hartford, CT, as one of four children. Studied two years at Juillard and graduated from New York University graduate theater program with a B.F.A. degree in theater. Meanwhile he participated in the first of Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare productions at the Park theater company. Later he supported himself by acting on and off Broadway and as “Mike Rivers” in the soap “One Life to Live” (1968). After that he moved to L.A. to guest-star in numerous TV series and TV movies.

He then played a Jamaican gangster in the independent film Johnny Was[7] opposite Vinnie Jones, Samantha Mumba, Lennox Lewis, and Roger Daltrey. La Salle lived in Belfast, for four weeks while filming the movie, which he supported at the North American premiere of the film in 2006, at the American Black Film Festival in Miami.
He also starred in the Hallmark Channel original movie, Relative Stranger, which premiered on March 14, 2009. Also in the movie were Cicely Tyson as well as La Salle’s former ER castmates Michael Michele (Dr. Cleo Finch) and Michael Beach (Al Boulet).
In 2010, La Salle played the United Nations Secretary General in the series finale of 24 and guest-starred in an episode of Covert Affairs in August of the same year.
In 2011, he played two recurring roles – one as a Caribbean community leader who rallied against the product Rasta Monsta in HBO’s How to Make it In America, the second as the neuropsychiatrist E-Mo in CBS’ A Gifted Man.
In 1996, La Salle made his directorial debut in the HBO made-for-TV movie Rebound: The Legend of Earl “The Goat” Manigault, starring Don Cheadle, James Earl Jones and Forest Whitaker, in which La Salle also played a pivotal role. Shortly after that, La Salle also directed the pilot for Soul Food: The Series on Showtime.
In 2002 he produced the feature film The Salton Sea with Val kilmer and in the same year, he produced, directed and starred in the movie Crazy As Hell and in 2003 he wrote, directed and starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone.
Ever since, he has directed several episodics including multiple episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,[8] CSI: NY, Ringer and A Gifted Man. In 2012 he directed the Hallmark movie Playing Father.
After several years writing screenplays, Eriq decided to take on a new challenge and expanded his horizons by writing his first novel. The task wasn’t easy, but, inspired by the role he played in the 1999 movie Mind Prey (which he also produced for ABC), he tackled the thriller genre and in 2012 published Laws of Depravity.

Co-hosted Radio Free Friday & talked about his new book & book signing.

Book-signing this Sunday – with Eriq LaSalle –  “The Laws of Depravity.”
NATE HOLDEN & EBONY REPERTORY THEATRE’S
Where: 4718 West Washington Boulevard  Los Angeles, CA 90016
When: Sunday 09-16-12 @ 3pm
FOR MORE INFO CALL: PH# (323) 964-9768