Dennis Haysbert
Born	Dennis Dexter Haysbert June 2, 1954 (1954-06-02) (age 54) San Mateo, California, USA
Spouse(s)	Lynn Griffith (1989-2001) Elena Simms (1980-1984)

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Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 2.1 TV 2.2 Film 2.3 Commercials 2.4 Video games 3 Filmography 4 References 5 External links

Personal life

Haysbert was born in San Mateo, California, the son of Gladys (née Minor), a homemaker, and Charles Haysbert, Sr. San Mateo ( "san muh-TAY-o") is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States , a deputy sheriff. SHERIFF is a telecom fraud detection and management system originally developed by BT and MCI. ^[1] He is the eighth of nine children, having two sisters and six brothers. ^[2] After high school, measuring 6 feet 4. 5 inches (1. 94 m) tall, Haysbert was offered various athletic scholarships, but instead chose to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International Haysbert is a divorced father of two.

Career

TV

Haysbert has been acting in film and television since 1979, starting with a guest role in The White Shadow. The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27, 1978 to His television guest starring roles include Lou Grant, Laverne & Shirley, The A-Team, Dallas, Magnum, P.I., Buck Rogers in the 25th Century^[3], and Duckman. Lou Grant is an American television drama series starring Ed Asner as a newspaper editor Laverne & Shirley was a popular American television Situation comedy that ran on ABC from 1976 to 1983 The A-Team is an American action Adventure Television series about a fictional group of ex- United States Army Special Forces Magnum PI is an American Television show starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a fictional Private investigator Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. Duckman is an animated sitcom created by Everett Peck and developed by Peck Jeff Reno and Ron Osborn based on characters created by Peck in his Dark In 1993 he had a featured role in Return to Lonesome Dove as outlaw Cherokee Jack Jackson. Return to Lonesome Dove, written by John Wilder, is a TV Miniseries involving characters created in the Pulitzer Prize -winning western In 1999, Haysbert starred with Eric Close in Now and Again, which was cancelled after its first season. Eric Close (born May 24 1967, Staten Island, New York) is an American film and television actor Now and Again is an American television series which aired in the US from September 24 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS

In 2001, Haysbert became better known when he was cast in 24 playing U. 24 is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American action Drama Television series. S. Senator David Palmer, who served as America's first Black President (in the context of the show) during the second and third seasons. A senate is a Deliberative body, often the Upper house or chamber of a Legislature or Parliament. David Palmer is a fictional President of the United States played by Dennis Haysbert as part of the television series 24. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by He also returned as a guest star in the last six episodes of season 4 and the first episode of season 5. He stated in an interview for the show that the three men he admired most -- Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Colin Powell -- would collectively embody his idea of what a President should be. James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr (born October 1 1924 was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 and the recipient of the 2002 William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Colin Luther Powell, KCB (Honorary MSC, (born April 5, 1937) is a retired General in the United States Army. ^[4]

On March 4, 2006, Haysbert guest starred on the Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Natalie Portman as the host of a live action/animated TV Funhouse cartoon called Belated Black History Moment. Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Saturday Night Live ( SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute American Sketch comedy / Variety show based in New York City Natalie Portman (נטלי פורטמן born Natalie Hershlag June 9 1981 is an Israeli American Actress. Saturday TV Funhouse is the title of a recurring Skit on NBC 's Saturday Night Live featuring cartoons created by longtime In his role, Haysbert paid homage to fictional short-lived Saturday morning cartoons featuring African-American characters, such as "Ladysmith Black Mambazo in Outer Space". Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a male choral group from South Africa that sings in the vocal style of Isicathamiya and mbube.

Haysbert currently portrays the lead character Jonas Blane in the CBS action-drama The Unit, which is in its 3rd season. Sergeant Major Jonas Blane ( United States Army, callsign Snake Doctor) is a fictional character on the CBS television series The Unit The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real life Delta Force.

Film

In 1989, Haysbert got his first major film role portraying Pedro Cerrano, a voodoo-practicing Cuban refugee baseball player, in the Charlie Sheen movie Major League. Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3 1965 better known as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor Major League is a 1989 American Comedy film written and directed by David S In it, he uttered the memorable line: "Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum; is very bad". Haysbert followed that up with a role in 1990's Navy Seals, which also starred Sheen, before moving on to another baseball movie, Mr. Baseball with Tom Selleck. Mr Baseball is also the self-applied nickname of Bob Uecker, who appears in the Major League movies Thomas William Selleck (born January 29 1945 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American Actor, Screenwriter and In 1992, he co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in Love Field, a film about a series of events occurring contemporaneously with the assassination and funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Michelle Marie Pfeiffer ( IPA: /mɪˈʃɛl ˈfаɪfɜr/ born April 29 1958 is an American Actress. Love Field is a 1992 drama Independent film directed by Jonathan Kaplan and written by Don Roos. John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29 1917&ndashNovember 22 1963 often referred to by his initials JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of

In 1994, Haysbert reprised his role as Cerrano in Major League II. Major League II ( 1994) is a sequel to the 1989 film Major League. This was followed by low key appearances in Waiting to Exhale, Heat, and Absolute Power. Waiting to Exhale is a 1995 Romance film which stars Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett and directed by Forest Whitaker Heat is a 1995 American crime drama Film written and directed by Michael Mann. Absolute Power is a 1997 political thriller directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. In 1998, Haysbert made another appearance as Cerrano in Major League: Back to the Minors. Major League Back to the Minors is a 1998 movie distributed by Warner Bros In 1999, Haysbert played a police detective in three different films: The Minus Man, The Thirteenth Floor, and Random Hearts. The Minus Man is a 1999 film based on the novel by Lew McCreary. The Thirteenth Floor is a 1999 Film directed by Josef Rusnak, produced by Roland Emmerich and starring Craig Bierko Random Hearts is a 1984 novel by American author Warren Adler.

In 2002, Haysbert played the role of gardener Raymond Deagan in Far From Heaven. Far from Heaven is a 2002 film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Ryan Ward, Dennis He won three awards (Satellite Award, Black Reel Award, and Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award) for Best Supporting Actor for that role. In 2007, Haysbert returned to the big screen to portray Nelson Mandela in Goodbye Bafana and an FBI agent in Breach

Commercials

Haysbert is the official spokesman for the Allstate Insurance Company. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (xolíɬaɬa mandéːla born 18 July 1918 is a former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in fully representative Goodbye Bafana, also released under the name The Color of Freedom, is a 2007 drama film about the relationship between Nelson Mandela Breach is a 2007 American Docudrama directed by Billy Ray. The screenplay by Ray Adam Mazer and William Rotko is based on the The Allstate Corporation is the largest publicly held personal lines insurer in the United States and the second-largest of all personal lines insurers in the His commercials typically end with one of two the Allstate Corporation's official slogans, either Are you in good hands? or That's Allstate's stand. More recently however his commercials have combined the two with "That's Allstate's stand. Are you in good hands?". Haysbert also voices the Military Channel's commercials with their official slogan: "The Military Channel -- Go Behind the Lines. The Military Channel is a cable and satellite television network which broadcasts military and military history related programming "

Video games

In addition to his acting, Haysbert has also done voice work for various video games, most notably as Irving Lambert in Pandora Tomorrow the second installment of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series and narrator of Call of Duty: Finest Hour. A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. --> Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow is a third-person Stealth-based video game developed and published by Ubisoft Shanghai, while Ubisoft Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a series of Video games endorsed by American author Tom Clancy. Call of Duty Finest Hour is a First-person shooter for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube Video game consoles This

Filmography

• 227 (1986)
• The A-Team (1987)
• Major League (1989)
• Navy SEALs (1990)
• Mr. Baseball (1992)
• Love Field (1992)
• Return to Lonesome Dove (1993)
• Suture (1993)
• Alex Haley's Queen (1993)
• Major League II (1994)
• Heat (1995)
• Waiting to Exhale (1995)
• Absolute Power (1997)
• How to Make the Cruelest Month (1998)
• Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)
• Superman: The Animated Series Agent #1 - "Where There's Smoke" 042 September 19, 1998
• Now & Again (1999-2001)
• The Minus Man (1999)
• Random Hearts (1999)
• The 13th Floor (1999)
• Love & Basketball (2000)
• What's Cooking (2000)
• 24 (2001-2006)
• Far from Heaven (2002)
• Jarhead (2005)
• The Unit (2006 - Present)
• Goodbye Bafana (2006)
• Breach (2007)

References

External links

• Dennis Haysbert at the Internet Movie Database
• Dennis Haysbert Bio at CBS - The Unit
• Dennis Haysbert's bio at The Unit Headquarters

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