Dennis Haysbert

Dennis Haysbert in Focus Films' Far From Heaven - 2002 Photo: David Lee

Biography

Born 06/02/1954

Dennis Haysbert's big break came when he was chosen to star opposite Michelle Pfeiffer in the civil rights road picture-cum-romance "Love Field" (filmed in 1990; released in 1992). Yet, like so many other Hollywood stories, "Love Field" was not a part that came knocking for the tall, physically...
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Awards

  • In 2002, received Washington Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • In 2000, received Saturn Award for TV Supporting Actor

Highlights

  • In 2007, Co-starred in "Breach," a thriller about FBI traitor Robert Hanssen played by Chris Cooper
  • In 2007, Portrayed Nelson Mandela in "Goodbye Bafana" a drama about Mandela's relationship with his censor officer and prison guard, based on the book Goodbye Bafana: Nelson Mandela, My Prisoner, My Friend by James Gregory
  • In 2006, Cast as Jonas Blane in CBS's special forces drama "The Unit" created by David Mamet

Family & Companions

  • wife: briefly wed; divorced in 1984
  • Lynn Griffith: wife (met in 1987; married c. 1989; divorced in 2001)

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