1. Dennis Dexter Haysbert was born on June 2,1954 and is an American actor.
37 Facts About Dennis Haysbert
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Dennis Haysbert is known for his roles as baseball player Pedro Cerrano in the Major League film trilogy, Secret Service agent Tim Collin in the political thriller film Absolute Power, Sergeant Major Jonas Blane on the CBS military action drama series The Unit, God on the Netflix show Lucifer, and President David Palmer on the first five seasons of 24.
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Dennis Haysbert has appeared in the films Love Field, Navy SEALS, Heat, Waiting to Exhale, and Far from Heaven, as well as the science fiction series Incorporated.
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Dennis Haysbert is the eighth of nine children, having two sisters and six brothers.
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Dennis Haysbert has been acting in film and television since 1978, starting with a guest role in The White Shadow.
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In 1999, Dennis Haysbert starred with Eric Close in Now and Again, which was cancelled after one season.
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In 2001, Dennis Haysbert rose to prominence when he was cast in 24 as US Senator David Palmer, who served as the first black US President during the second and third seasons.
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Dennis Haysbert returned as a guest star in the last six episodes of season 4 and the first episode of season 5.
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Dennis Haysbert was nominated for a Golden Globe and for a Golden Satellite Award in 2002 for this role.
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Dennis Haysbert was the first actor to portray DC Comics character Kilowog, a member of the Green Lantern Corps, in a medium outside of comics.
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Dennis Haysbert provided the voice of Kilowog on various episodes of Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.
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Dennis Haysbert portrayed Nelson Mandela in Goodbye Bafana.
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Dennis Haysbert portrayed the lead character Sergeant Major Jonas Blane in the CBS military action-drama The Unit.
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Dennis Haysbert hosted and narrated the Military History Channel presentation of Secrets of Pearl Harbor, which documented his scuba dives with a film team on World War II-era Japanese and American warships in the Pacific Theater.
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On May 19,2014, Dennis Haysbert featured in the fifth episode of the fourth season of The Boondocks as Reverend Sturdy Harris.
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Since September 6,2015, Dennis Haysbert's has been the opening voice introducing NBC's Meet the Press.
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In November 2016, Dennis Haysbert began his co-starring role in Incorporated.
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Dennis Haysbert was cast to play God for the second half of the fifth season of Lucifer.
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In 1989, Dennis Haysbert made his first major role as Pedro Cerrano, a voodoo-practicing Cuban refugee baseball player, in Major League.
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Dennis Haysbert followed that up with a role in 1990's Navy SEALs, which starred Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn, before moving on to another baseball film, Mr Baseball with Tom Selleck.
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In 1994, Dennis Haysbert reprised his role as Cerrano in Major League II.
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In 1998, Dennis Haysbert made another appearance as Cerrano in Major League: Back to the Minors.
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In 1999, Dennis Haysbert played a police detective in three films: The Minus Man, The Thirteenth Floor, and Random Hearts.
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In 2002, Dennis Haysbert played the role of gardener Raymond Deagan in Far from Heaven.
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Dennis Haysbert won three awards for Best Supporting Actor for that role.
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In 2007, Dennis Haysbert returned to the big screen to portray Nelson Mandela in Goodbye Bafana and an FBI agent in Breach.
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Dennis Haysbert replaced the deceased Michael Clarke Duncan as Manute in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
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In 2014, Dennis Haysbert played the role of Dean Fairbanks in Dear White People and General Lyons Dead Rising: Watchtower.
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In December 2018, it was announced that Dennis Haysbert was to star in the Netflix psychological thriller Secret Obsession.
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Since 2013, Dennis Haysbert has appeared as the official spokesman for the Allstate Insurance Company.
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In 2008, Dennis Haysbert was featured in national television ads to raise public awareness about lending discrimination.
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In one of these ads, Dennis Haysbert warns consumers about lenders' targeting minorities for inferior loan products.
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Dennis Haysbert did it as a favor to his younger brother Adam, who played wide receiver at BYU in the early 1980s.
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Dennis Haysbert has done voice work for various video games, such as Irving Lambert in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, the narrator in Call of Duty: Finest Hour and reprising his television role of David Palmer in 24: The Game.
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In June 2010, Dennis Haysbert joined the cast of David Mamet's Race on Broadway as character Henry Brown, performing alongside actors Eddie Izzard, Richard Thomas and Afton Williamson.
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Dennis Haysbert was married to Elena Simms from 1980 to 1984, and Lynn Griffith from 1989 to 2001.
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Dennis Haysbert announced in April 2009 that he was starting a production company.