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Actor Dorian Harewood is available for personal appearances at your next event!

Dorian Harewood has had his dreams come true several times in his singing and acting career. He has sung on the same bill with the legendary Four Tops on a sold-out tour of Europe. He has had the opportunity to vocally jam on stage with the incomparable Stevie Wonder in the gospel production, "Mama Don't". And he has had the distinct honor of performing on the largest and most prestigious stage in Las Vegas: the Las Vegas Hilton, with the great Gladys Knight.

dorian harewood In the world of television, Dorian holds the unique distinction of having portrayed the two largest roles in the most widely seen network AND non-network mini-series in the history of television! In the role of Simon Haley (father of the author Alex Haley) in "Roots: the Next Generations", the three-time NAACP Image Award winner aged from 17 to 70 years old, creating the largest role in the combined 26 hours of "Roots" I and II. And he is probably most recognized from his award-winning portrayal of 1936 Olympic champion and American hero Jesse Owens, in "The Jesse Owens Story".

jesse owens story Dorian has starred in several television series, including most recently "Seventh Heaven" for Aaron Spelling, "Viper" for NBC, "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill" with Sharon Gless (CBS), "Strike Force" with Robert Stack (ABC), "Trauma Center" (ABC), "The Hoop Life" (Showtime), "Glitter" (NBC) and the highly acclaimed NBC series "I'll Fly Away", for which he won the NAACP Image Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series. He has most recently starred in the soon-to-be -released "Walter & Henry", directed by Daniel Petrie and produced by Norman Jewison, "The Triangle" for TNT, "The Last Debate", directed by John Badham and "The Jimi Hendrix Story". He was the voice of baseball's Hall of Fame slugger Hank Aaron in the Academy Award nominated documentary "Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream", narrated the 4 hour A&E special "Christianity: The Second Millenium" and has starred in numerous television movies and series guest appearances, including "Siege", "Foster and Laurie", "High Ice", "God Bless the Child", "China Beach", "Matlock", "Murder She Wrote", the Disney musicals "Polly" and "Polly: One More Time" and the CBS kidnap thriller "The Cradle Will Fall".

Dorian's feature film credits include Stanley Kubrick's phenomenal anti-war film "Full Metal Jacket", "Sudden Death" with Jean-Claude Van Damme, "Against All Odds", "Sparkle", "The Falcon and the Snowman", "Pacific Heights", "Looker", "Archibald the Rainbow Painter", "Sudden Impact" and "Tank". He starred in the prestigious remake of the 1957 Academy Award nominated MGM classic "Twelve Angry Men", directed by Academy Award winner William Friedkin and starring Academy Award winners George C. Scott and Jack Lemmon, and appears in Mariah Carey's feature film debut, "All That Glitters", which will be released in 2001 by Columbia/Tri-Star.

In the world of live theater, Dorian Harewood has performed before Broadway theater audiences as well as live theater audiences across the country, having starred in the Tony Award winning musicals "Kiss of the Spider Woman" with Chita Rivera, "Two Gentlemen of Verona", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Over Here" with the Andrew Sisters and most recently, "The Pajama Game" in Los Angeles, "Purlie" at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater in Washington D.C., and "Crumbs From The Table Of Joy", for which he won his third NAACP Image Award. He has also starred in the Broadway dramas "Streamers" directed by Mike Nichols, "Don't Call Back", "The Mighty Gents" and the fateful musical "Miss Moffat", opposite the late great Bette Davis, the woman responsible for his decision to become an actor.

Dorian Harewood is available for your next event - contact us today to arrange an appearance.