Daniel Sunjata

Daniel Sunjata in the 2004 film Brother to Brother

Daniel Sunjata (b. December 30, 1971 in Evanston, Illinois) is an actor who has performed in film, television and in the theater. In 2003, he won Theatre World Award for his breakout broadway performance in Take Me Out, the Tony award-winning play, which also earned him nominations for a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award.

An African-American also of Irish and German heritage, Sunjata grew up in Chicago, the adopted son of a police dispatcher and a civil rights worker. He graduated from Mount Carmel High School (Chicago). He did his undergraduate studies at Florida A&M University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He received his master's degree in fine arts from the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University.

[edit] Acting credits

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
2006	The Devil Wears Prada	James Holt
2006	Love Monkey	Diego
2005	Law & Order Season 15, Episode 12	Kenny Tremont	Appeared with Rescue Me co-star Andrea Roth
2000 to 2004	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	CSU Technician Burt Trevor (2002-2005)/ Bomb Squad Officer (2000)
2004	Melinda and Melinda	Billy
2004	Noel	Marco
2004 to current	Rescue Me	Franco Rivera
2004	Brother to Brother	Langston Hughes
2003	Take Me Out	Darren Lemming	winner, 2003 Theatre World Award, nominee, Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play, nominee, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor
2003	Ed episode The Case	Danny Martin
2002	ToCA Race Driver	Nick Landers/James Randall (voice)
2002	Bad Company	Officer Carew
2002	Sex and the City season 5, Anchors Away episode 67	Louis Leroy, the Navy sailor
2001	All My Children	Zachary Pell
2001	The Feast of All Saints	Christophe Mercier
2000	D.C.	Lewis Freeman
1998	Twelfth Night, or What You Will	Valentine