| Occupation Actor Height 1.85 m Role Actor | Name Daniel Sunjata Years active 1998–present Nationality American | |
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| Born December 30, 1971 (age 51) (1971-12-30) Evanston, Illinois, U.S. Parents Catherine Condon, Bill Condon Education Tisch School of the Arts, New York University Movies and TV shows Rescue Me, One for the Money, The Dark Knight Rises, The Devil Wears Prada, Gone Similar People Aaron Tveit, Manny Montana, Vanessa Ferlito, Jason O'Mara, Serinda Swan Profiles | ||
Daniel sunjata
Daniel Sunjata (born Daniel Sunjata Condon; December 30, 1971) is an American actor who performs in film, television and theater. He is best known for his role as Franco Rivera in the FX television series Rescue Me.
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- Personal life
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- Views on the September 11 attacks
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Personal life
Sunjata was born and grew up in Chicago, the adopted son of Bill and Catherine Condon, a police dispatcher and a civil rights worker. His adoptive parents are of Irish and Italian-German descent. He is named in honor of the African king Sundiata Keita, founder of the Mali Empire; the name means "hungry lion." He was told his biological mother was a white teenage runaway and his father was black. He graduated from Mount Carmel High School in Chicago, where he played linebacker for two state championship football teams. He completed his undergraduate studies at Florida A&M University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He received a master's degree in fine arts from the Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Career
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 fashion designer in The Devil Wears Prada.
He starred as firefighter Franco Rivera on the television program Rescue Me. During the summer of 2007, he also starred in the ESPN miniseries The Bronx is Burning as Reggie Jackson. He appeared as a Special Forces Operative in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
In 2003, he won a 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.
Beginning in 2013 he played FBI agent Paul Briggs on Graceland which aired on USA Network. The show was canceled in 2015 after 3 seasons.
Views on the September 11 attacks
On April 30, 2009, Sunjata announced his participation as narrator in Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup, which was the last in a series of documentaries, collectively known as Loose Change, that argue that the September 11 attacks were planned by the United States government.
Sunjata has stated that he believes "absolutely, 100 percent" in this theory. Producers of Rescue Me, inspired by Sunjata's views, created a subplot of the show that year (the show's fifth season) in which Sunjata's character, Franco Rivera, stirs up controversy in the firehouse when he announces these same views to a journalist.