Eamonn Roderique Walker was born on 12 June 1962 and is a British actor.
21 Facts About Eamonn Walker
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Eamonn Walker led the ITV television film Othello and had a further role in the Fox series Justice.
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Eamonn Walker's films include Young Soul Rebels, Once in the Life, Legacy, and A Lonely Place to Die.
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Eamonn Walker was born in west London to a Grenadian father and a Trinidadian mother, in 1962.
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Eamonn Walker attended Hungerford School in Islington and began studying social work at the Polytechnic of North London.
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Eamonn Walker trained as a dancer and later joined the Explosive Dance Theatre Company in London.
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Eamonn Walker studied at the New York Film Academy in the United States.
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Eamonn Walker made his professional acting debut in 1983 on stage in London playing an East End punk rocker in the musical Labelled with Love, based partly on the music of the pop band Squeeze.
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Eamonn Walker appeared in an episode of the detective series Bergerac on BBC1.
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Eamonn Walker followed this in 1995 with appearances in two more British sitcoms, on the BBC, The Detectives and Goodnight Sweetheart.
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The series was set in a fictional maximum-security prison, and the character Eamonn Walker played was a new inmate who was a devout Muslim.
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Eamonn Walker won the award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in the inaugural CableACE Awards for his performance in the first series of Oz in the ceremony held in Los Angeles.
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In 2000 Walker appeared in two films: the crime drama Once in the Life, acting alongside and being directed by Laurence Fishburne on his directorial debut; and the fantasy mystery Unbreakable, alongside Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson.
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Eamonn Walker appeared in the de facto series finale of Homicide: Life on the Street, Homicide: The Movie.
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Eamonn Walker appeared in an episode of the Fox Network drama series The Jury.
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Eamonn Walker starred in the Fox Network legal drama Justice, playing the part of Luther Graves.
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Eamonn Walker starred in three films: the action drama Blood and Bone; the biographical music drama Cadillac Records, about the 1950s musical era, in which he plays the influential blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player Howlin' Wolf, which was released on 5 December 2008; and the romantic war drama The Messenger, in which Walker plays Colonel Stuart Dorsett.
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Eamonn Walker appeared on the NBC drama series Kings, which was based on the biblical story of David.
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Eamonn Walker portrayed Reverend Ephram Samuels, an analogue of the biblical prophet Samuel.
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Eamonn Walker starred in the TV series The Whole Truth, alongside Maura Tierney and Rob Morrow, which premiered on 22 September 2010.
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In 2011 Eamonn Walker appeared on FX series Lights Out as trainer Ed Romeo, former trainer of Lights Leary's last opponent, Death Row Reynolds.