Herman Wilkins
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Herman De Woyne Wilkins III is an American actor/writer and filmmaker born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 27, 1974, though most of his childhood was split between Memphis and various villages and cities on Chicago's North Shore. His parents are civil rights activists and union organizer Herman Wilkins Jr. and Dorothy Ingram Wilkins. He is a cousin of NBA stars Dominique Wilkins and Gerald Wilkins and NAACP figure Roy Wilkins. On his mother's side he is related to Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard.
Herman prepared at the St. Paul's School in Concord, NH (while there, he also attended the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center in New York). He matriculated with the 1868 Prize for Writing. Afterwards, Herman attended Rhodes College in Memphis and then Lake Forest college in Lake Forest, Illinois, in both cases to be near to his family. After a brief stint at the School of Visual Arts in New York City Herman left for Los Angeles, California.
After landing in Los Angeles, Herman struggled for years to make a name for himself in the arenas of television and film. Herman appeared in A Clockwork Orange at The Greenway Arts Theater and he finally got a break when an agent saw him in The Lillies of the Field at the Santa Monica Playhouse. He has appeared in several television shows including HBO's From the Earth to the Moon, Fox's The Shield and Lifetime's The Division. He co-wrote Broken Cookies with Udo Kier. His first full length feature Three Boys Named Mario (2000) received a grant from Avid to be edited. His second film Affairs In Order has just completed in 2006. Herman has appeared in advertising campaigns for KIA Motors, Captain Morgan's and Nokia.
