Daniel Sunjata Condon (b. December 30, 1971, in Evanston, Illinois) is a Tony Award nominated actor who has performed in film, television and in the theater. In 2003, he won Theatre World Award for his breakout broadway performance as a gay Major League Baseball player who comes out to the public in Take Me Out, the Tony award-winning play, which also earned him nominations for a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award. Image File history File links Daniel_Sunjatan. ... is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Incorporated City in 1872. ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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. ... MLB and Major Leagues redirect here. ... Take Me Out is a Tony Award-winning play by Richard Greenberg which deals with homosexuality in baseball. ... 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. ... Created in 1955, the Drama Desk Award was created to recognize Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows in addition to Broadway shows. ...

Sunjata played the role of a sailor on shore leave on the first post-9/11 themed episode of Sex and The City. He has portrayed Langston Hughes in the film Brother to Brother and James Holt, a fictitious fashion designer in The Devil Wears Prada. He currently co-stars on the television program Rescue Me. During the summer of 2007, he also is starring in the ESPN miniseries The Bronx is Burning as Reggie Jackson. Sex and the City is a popular American cable television program. ... Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and newspaper columnist. ... Brother to Brother is a film written and directed by Rodney Evans and released in 2004. ... The Devil Wears Prada is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 comedy-drama film, a loose screen adaptation of Lauren Weisbergers 2003 novel of the same name. ... Rescue Me is a critically-praised American television drama that premiered on the FX Network in 2004. ... The Bronx Is Burning is a television drama that debuted on ESPN on July 9, 2007 following the 2007 MLB Home Run Derby. ... Reginald Martinez Reggie Jackson (born May 18, 1946), nicknamed Mr. ...

Early life

An American of African, German and Irish 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 in Chicago, where he played center for two state championship football teams. He completed his undergraduate studies at Florida A&M University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He then received his master's degree in fine arts from the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University. Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... Mount Carmel High School is an all boys Catholic high school in the city of Chicago, Illinois. ... Center (C) is a position in American football. ... Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, commonly known as Florida A&M or FAMU (pronounced fam-you), is a historically black university located in Tallahassee, Florida, the state capital, and is one of eleven institutions in Floridas State University System. ... The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, or UL Lafayette,[1] is a coeducational public research university located in Lafayette, Louisiana, in the heart of Acadiana. ... Tisch School of the Arts (known more commonly as Tisch or TSOA) is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University (NYU). ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ...

Partial filmography

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Trivia

• Named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 2003.
• Is scheduled to appear as a guest at a "9/11 Truth" event in new york city, sept 2007.
• Has been photographed wearing a t-shirt in support of alternative theories regarding the September 11th 2001 Attacks on New York City. http://www.wearechange.org/uploaded_images/danielsunjata-719920.jpg

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References

External links

• Daniel Sunjata at the Internet Movie Database
• Daniel Sunjata at the Internet Broadway Database