Born in Newport News, Virginia, Frankie Faison studied drama at Illinois Wesleyan University before earning an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1974, launching his career with a New York Shakespeare Festival production of King Lear. A Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway debut of Fences followed, and he entered television with the short-lived series Hot Hero Sandwich (1979). Film w… Read more
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