Charles Dutton (born January 30, 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actor/director. January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Monument City (by John Quincy Adams on a visit in 1827), Charm City, Mob Town, B-more Motto: The Greatest City in America (formerly The City That Reads; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Location Location of Baltimore in Maryland Government Country...

Dutton is most known for turning his life around after serving time in prison for fatally stabbing a man in a street fight. While incarcerated, he discovered a love of the theater and studied for a college degree.

In 1985, he debuted on the Broadway stage, winning a Theatre World Award plus a nomination for the Best Actor Tony Award for his performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. He was nominated for a second Tony Award as Best actor in 1990 for his role in The Piano Lesson. Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... The Theatre World Award is an American honor given annually to an actor or an actress in recognition of an outstanding breakout performance in their New York City stage debut. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Ma Raineys Black Bottom is a 1982 play; one of a ten-play cycle by August Wilson that chronicles 20th Century African American experience. ... August Wilsons The Piano Lesson was the 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama, and concerned a brother and a sister arguing about whether or not they should sell their family piano. ...

Mr. Dutton won Outstanding Guest Actor Emmy awards in 2002 and 2003 for his roles in The Practice and Without A Trace. An Emmy Award. ... The Practice was a long-running (March 4, 1997 - May 16, 2004, eight seasons) ABC legal drama TV series created by David E. Kelley about a Boston, Massachusetts law firm. ... Without a Trace is an American television show set in New York City. ...

Dutton gained acclaim for his show Roc shown on FOX television from 1991 to 1994, especially mid-run when the show was done live in one take. His work in this role won him an NAACP Image Award. He co-starred in the popular but short-lived 2005 CBS science fiction series, Threshold. Roc was a Fox network sitcom which ran from 1991 to 1994. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), but rarely as FBC, is a television network in the United States. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. ... CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System, the former legal name of the network) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Threshold was a science-fiction drama television series that first aired on CBS in September 2005. ...

In 2000, Dutton directed the critically acclaimed HBO mini series The Corner. The miniseries was close to his heart for Dutton grew up on the streets of East Baltimore. It was adapted from The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Broadway Books, 1997) by David Simon (a reporter for the Baltimore Sun )and Edward Burns (a retired Baltimore homicide detective). The Corner won several Emmys in 2000, including that for best miniseries. Dutton won for his direction of the mini series. The Corner Review The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood is a book written by Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon and former Baltimore homicide detective Edward Burns. ... The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood is a book written by Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon and former Baltimore homicide detective Edward Burns. ...

He starred in the 2003 made-for-TV movie D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear and appears in Season 2 of The L Word. D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear is a 2003 made-for-TV movie created by USA Network based on Beltway sniper attacks The movie chronicles the period when John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo went on a serial shooting spree in October 2002 in Virginia, Washington, DC, and... The L Word is a television drama series airing on Living TV in the United Kingdom, Showtime in the United States and Showcase Television in Canada. ...

He most recently guest starred on House MD As the father of Doctor Eric Foreman (Omar Epps). House, M.D. (commonly promoted as just House) is an American television series produced by the Fox Broadcasting Company. ... Omar Epps Omar Hashim Epps (born 23 July 1973) in Brooklyn, New York is an American actor, musician, songwriter, screenwriter and record producer. ...

Dutton owns a farm in Ellicott City, MD and is the ex-husband of actress Debbi Morgan. Deborah Morgan (born September 20, 1956 in Dunn, North Carolina) is an American television actress, most known for her role as Angie Baxter Hubbard on All My Children. ...

External links

• Charles Dutton at the Internet Movie Database
• The Corner Review