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Charles Dutton
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
This actor's truelife story is as amazing as anything ever depicted on screen: Dutton quit school, spent time in reform schools, and then went to jail at the age of 17 for killing a man in a street fight. He spent some eight years in and out of prison and gradually developed an interest in theater, acting with other inmates in a drama group. When he was released in 1976, Dutton studied theater and was later accepted at the Yale School of Drama. There he met director Lloyd Richards who chose Dutton to star in August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" on Broadway; the performance earned Dutton a Tony nomination. He had similar Broadway triumphs in Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" and "The Piano Lesson" and, around that time, began appearing in films like No Mercy (1986), "Crocodile" Dundee II (1988), Jacknife (1989), and Q & A (1990). He has been busier than ever, with strong supporting roles in Alien3 (1992, as a hard-headed inmate in a prison of the future), Mississippi Masala (1992), The Distinguished Gentleman (1992), Menace II Society (1993), and Rudy (1993). He is also familiar to TV audiences as the title character of the TV series "Roc," a name taken from his former street nickname |  |
