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Harold Perrineau is an American actor who works in film, television, and voice acting. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1963, he began his work period in 1986. He is educated at Shenandoah University and speaks English as his native language.
Perrineau has received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. He is male and has five children, including Aurora Perrineau. His field of work is acting, and he writes in English.
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Film & TV
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Harold Perrineau (born August 7, 1963) is an American actor known for the roles of Michael Dawson in the U.S. television series Lost, Link in The Matrix films and games, Augustus Hill in the American television series Oz, and Mercutio in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet. He recently starred in ABC's comedy-drama television series The Unusuals, playing NYPD homicide detective Leo Banks.
Known for
- Getting LOST — Self (archive footage)2024
- Unicorn Boy — Guard Pantius (voice)2023
- LOST: Circle — Michael Dawson2023
- Without Ward2022
- FROM — Boyd Stevens2022
- The Best Man: The Final Chapters — Julian Murch2022
- Sherri — Self - Guest2022
- Cold Brook — Gil Le Deux2019
- Losers — Self2019
- Dumplin' — Lee Wayne / Rhea Ranged2018
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1963-08-07 ) August 7, 1963 (age 62) , New York City , U.S.
- Other names
- Harold Perrineau Jr., Harold Williams
- Alma mater
- Shenandoah University
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1986–present
- Spouse
- Brittany Robinson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2002 )
- Children
- 3, including Aurora
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Harold
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Child
- Aurora Perrineau
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Educated at
- Shenandoah University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- acting
- Official website
- www.haroldperrineau.com
- Image
- Harold Perrineau, Constantine, 2014 Comic Con (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 5
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- Commons category
- Harold Perrineau
- date of birth
- 1963-01-01
- start of work period
- 1986-00-00
- social media followers
- 52247
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Harold Perrineau (born August 7, 1963) is an American actor. His breakout role was in the independent film Smoke (1995), for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. He went on to appear as Mercutio in Romeo+Juliet (1996) and Link in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions (both 2003).
On television, he has starred as Augustus Hill in the HBO prison drama Oz (1997–2003), Michael Dawson in the ABC series Lost (2004–2010), and Sheriff Boyd Stevens in the MGM+ horror series From (2022–present).
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