Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, he began acting in the early 1990s after training that secured his first television gig as Ben Price on the ABC soap One Life to Live (1993-94). Film appearances in Fresh and Bleeding Hearts preceded his breakout portrayal of Otis Williams in the 1998 miniseries The Temptations, which earned an NAACP Image Award nomination. He later anchored CBS’s legal dram…
