Eriq La Salle

Eriq La Salle (droit), 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.
Il a également joué dans le film original Hallmark Channel, Relative Stranger, dont la première sur Mars 14, 2009. Dans le film étaient également Cicely Tyson ainsi que l'ancien castmates ER de La Salle Michael Michele (Dr. Cleo Finch) et Michael Plage (Al Boulet).
Dans 2010, La Salle a joué le Secrétaire général des Nations Unies dans la finale de la série de 24 et guest-stars dans un épisode de Covert Affairs en Août de la même année.
Dans 2011, il a joué deux rôles récurrents – un comme un leader de la communauté des Caraïbes qui se sont mobilisés contre le produit Rasta Monsta dans HBO Comment faire en Amérique, le second comme le neuropsychiatre E-Mo à CBS’ A Gifted Man.
Dans 1996, La Salle a fait ses débuts de réalisateur dans le film Rebound HBO a fait pour la télévision: The Legend of Earl “La chèvre” Manigault, mettant en vedette Don Cheadle, James Earl Jones et 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.
Dans 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: New York, Ringer and A Gifted Man. Dans 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, mais, 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.

Dédicaces ce dimanche – avec Eriq LaSalle – “Les lois de la dépravation.”
NATE HOLDEN & EBONY Repertory Theatre'S
Où: 4718 West Washington Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90016
Quand: Dimanche 09-16-12 @ 15:00
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