Harry Joseph Lennix III is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Terrence "Dresser" Williams in the Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats and as Boyd Langton in the Joss Whedon television series Dollhouse. Lennix currently co-stars as Harold Cooper, Assista...
Harry Joseph Lennix , Harry Joseph Lennix III , Harry Lenix , Harry J. Lennix
Awards
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Drama
Nominations
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special, Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in...
Movies
Man of Steel, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, The Five Heartbeats, Love & Basketball, Ray, State of Play, Titus, The Human Stain, Guarding Tess, Stomp the Yard, Suspect Zero, Resurrecting the Champ, Mr. Sophistication, Mo' Money, Across the Universe, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, Get ...
TV Shows
Emily Owens, M.D., Dollhouse, Commander in Chief, The Blacklist
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Fact
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Stephen Colbert on The Late Show in Aug 2016 with guest Larry Wilmore recounted their post-White House Correspondents' Dinner speech experiences having to mingle with the people they had just skewered - many of whom apparently could not take a joke. Colbert recalled after his 2006 speech during which he had famously and mercilessly skewered then President George W Bush, said actor Harry J. Lennix - the talented, very dignified actor and classmate of his from Northwestern University, came up to the dais to compliment him. Colbert remembered telling Lennix that he didn't think anyone liked him. "Lennix leans back," Colbert recalled, "and with his deep voice goes, 'Fuck these people. That was good'.".
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Attended Northwestern University with Stephen Colbert.
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Has played husband to Valarie Pettiford in the movie "Stomp the Yard" and the TV series "The Blacklist".
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He is the trustee of the Robey Theater Company in Los Angeles, California. [June 2009]
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Had an uncredited role as a heckler of Esai Morales' character in Bad Boys (1983).
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Son of the late Harry Joseph Lennix II and Lillian C. Lennix of Chicago, Illinois.
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He graduated from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.
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He was awarded the 1997 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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He was awarded the 1989 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Caught in the Act" at the Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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He was awarded the 1988 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Musical or Revue for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" at the Pegasus Players Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
His first movie was The Package (1989), starring Gene Hackman and directed by Andrew Davis. It was filmed in Lennix's hometown of Chicago, where Davis (also a Chicago native) films most of his movies.
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