Glynn Turman
Acting
Born January 31, 1947 · New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Glynn Russell Turman, born on January 31, 1947, in New York City, is a revered American stage, television, and film actor as well as a writer, whose career spans decades. He gained early recognition for his role as Leroy "Preach" Jackson in the 1975 film "Cooley High." Turman's talent shone on Broadway, earning a Tony Award for "The Great White Hope." He's renowned for TV work in "The Wire," math professor and retired Army colonel Bradford Taylor on the NBC sitcom "A Different World," fictional Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series "The Wire" and "House of Lies." His filmograp…
Known For · 40 titles
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Criminal Minds
Suits
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
ER
NCIS: Los Angeles
The Wire
Fargo
Scrubs
Murder, She Wrote
How to Get Away with Murder
FBI: Most Wanted
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Paradise
black-ish
Matlock
T. J. Hooker
Touched by an Angel
Room 222
The Neighborhood
American Playhouse
The Twilight Zone
American Gods
The Bernie Mac Show
Millennium
In Treatment
Mr. Mercedes
A Different World
House of Lies
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Power Book II: Ghost
STRAW
FlashForward
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Revolution
Freddy's Nightmares
Graves
Alcatraz
The Magnificent Seven