Dulé Hill
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Karim Dulé Hill (born May 3, 1975) is an American actor, best known as presidential aide Charlie Young on the television series The West Wing and as Burton Guster in the television dramedy Psych.
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[edit] Biography
Hill, born in Orange, New Jersey to Jamaican parents, studied tap dance from an early age. He performed in the musical The Tap Dance Kid. His first film role, in Sugar Hill, came in 1993 during his senior year of high school. Hill graduated from Sayreville War Memorial High School, in Parlin, NJ, in 1993.
During his time in college, he was cast in a starring role in Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk on Broadway.
Hill married actress Nicole Lyn on July 10, 2004.
[edit] Roles
In 1999, Hill was cast on The West Wing as Charlie Young, body man to President Josiah Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen). Hill starred as Charlie for six seasons before he chose to leave the show at the beginning of the seventh season (September 2005) to star in a pilot for the new television show Psych for the USA Network [1] which premiered July 7, 2006. However, when the announcement was made the The West Wing would be ending in May 2006, Hill returned for the show's last episodes.
Hill also had a minor role as Sam the Onion Man in the Disney movie Holes.
[edit] Trivia
- Hill participated in and won a game in Celebrity Poker Showdown during the show's second season. Hill returned to Celebrity Poker Showdown during the seventh season and won another game eliminating all of his opponents in sequential order.
[edit] Awards and nominations
- Dulé Hill was nominated for an Emmy in 2002 for his performances as Charlie Young in The West Wing in the episodes Hartsfield's Landing and Enemies Foreign and Domestic.[1]
[edit] External links
- Dulé Hill at the Internet Movie Database
- Articles
- Photos from Wireimage
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