BrownstoneJazz/ Award Winning VONDIE CURTIS HALL

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VONDIE CURTIS-HALL

After honing in on his craft at the Juilliard School and London's Richmond College, Vondie Curtis-Hall, who was a member of the original Broadway cast of the 1981 musical "Dreamgirls,” made his Broadway debut at age 25 in "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music" (1981). Five years later, in 1986, he starred as George Walker in the off-Broadway play "Williams and Walker" at the American Place Theatre, in New York, New York, for which he won the 1987 Audelco Award for Best Actor.

The talented actor then served as assistant editor, photography assistant, assistant editor and narrator on the documentary "Fall From Grace" (1987). In the following year, he landed his film debut in writer/director James Glickenhaus' action movie starring Peter Weller and Sam Elliott, "Shakedown," and as a basketball game vendor in John Landis' comedy film starring Eddie Murphy, "Coming to America" (both in 1988). He also made his early TV debut in the ABC prime time television series "A Man Called Hawk" in 1989.

Entering the new decade, Curtis-Hall co-starred with Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, and James Earl Jones in the TNT Primetime Emmy-winning movie "Heat Wave" and landed his first TV series regular role in a short-lived Steven Bochco television series on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), "Cop Rock," which was an attempt to combine musical theater with police drama.

Curtis-Hall subsequently played the recurring role of Joe Clay (1992-1993) on the NBC critically acclaimed television series set during the late 1950s and early 1960s, "I'll Fly Away." In 1994, he played a suicidal transsexual on the hit NBC medical drama series "ER," which earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

The mid 1990s saw Curtis-Hall join the cast of the CBS medical drama "Chicago Hope," playing Dr. Dennis Hancock from 1995 to 1999. For his work in the show, Curtis-Hall received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 1997 and 1998.

Curtis-Hall next supported Lynn Whitfield and Samuel L. Jackson in his wife's (Kasi Lemmons) drama film set in 1962 Louisiana, "Eve's Bayou" (1997), and was nominated for an Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. He also portrayed New Orleans-style rock and roll musician Lloyd Price in the biographical TV movie about the famous fight promoter and boxing manager, "Don King: Only in America" (with Ving Rhames in the title role), which won a Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. That same year, Curtis-Hall also made his feature film debut as director and screenwriter with the dark comedy "Gridlock'd" (1997), which was based on his actual life experience as a junkie during the 1970s.

After leaving "Chicago Hope," Curtis-Hall played the recurring role of Roger McGrath (2001) on the hit NBC series "ER." That same year, he also directed "Glitter," a feature that marked singer Mariah Carey's first leading role in film. Unfortunately, the film was largely panned by critics and audiences alike. It earned Curtis-Hall a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Director.

Curtis-Hall subsequently helmed the short-lived ABC medical drama series "Mds" (2002), starring William Fichtner, and directed Jamie Foxx and Lynn Whitfield in the critically-acclaimed HBO TV movie "Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story" (2004). Curtis-Hall' won a Black Reel Award for Best Director, Network/Cable Television.

Curtis-Hall next had a recurring role in the final season of the popular Showtime drama series "Soul Food," which was based upon George Tillman, Jr.'s successful 1997 film of the same name. The next year, he directed and wrote the screenplay of the action feature "Waist Deep" (2006; starring Tyrese Gibson and Meagan Good), which earned him a Black Movie Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Directing.

2007 saw Curtis-Hall co-star with Danny Glover in writer/director John Sayles' musical drama film "Honeydripper," and cast with Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor in the fact-based movie "Talk To Me," about Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene. The film that was directed by Curtis-Hall's wife Kasi Lemmons received favorable reviews from critics and won Curtis-Hall a Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast.

Recently, in 2008, he starred as an ex-con in Peter D. Gelles' 30-minute short crime film "Crenshaw Nights" and directed the episode "Glow in the Dark" of the ABC legal series "Boston Legal." Vondie will soon be seen alongside Kerry Washington, Shannyn Sossamon, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Brandon Routh in writer/director Buddy Giovinazzo's upcoming drama film based on Giovinazzo's novel, "Life is Hot in Cracktown."

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