Sunjata, Daniel

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SUNJATA, Daniel

(Daniel Sunjata Condon)

PERSONAL

Full name, Daniel Sunjata Condon; born December 30, in Evanston, IL. Education: University of Southwestern Louisiana, B.F.A.; New York University, M.F.A; also attended Florida A&M University.

Addresses: Agent—Billy Lazarus, United Talent Agency, 9560 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Manager—Meg Mortimer, Principal Entertainment, 1964 Westwood Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90025.

Career: Actor. Also known as Daniel Sunjata Condon.

Awards, Honors: Theatre World Award, Lucille Lortel Award, League of Off–Broadway Theatres and Producers, outstanding lead actor, Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best featured actor in a play, and Drama Desk Award nomination, outstanding actor in a play, all 2003, for Take Me Out.

CREDITS

Stage Appearances:

Lord Sand, Henry VIII, Public Theatre, Delacorte Theatre, New York City, 1997.

Mbongeni, Woza Albert!, Lincoln Center Institute Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1998.

Valentine and understudy for Orsino, Twelfth Night, or What You Will, Lincoln Center, Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York City, 1998.

First officer, Camino Real, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA, 1999.

Sebastian, Twelfth Night, or What You Will, Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 2000.

Ethan, A Breath Short of Breathing, Epic Theatre, 2001.

Darren Lemming, Take Me Out, New York Shakespeare Festival, Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London, then Anspacher Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, both 2002, later Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 2003–2004.

Television Appearances; Series:

Lewis Freeman, D.C., The WB, 2000.

Zachary Pell, All My Children (also known as All My Children: The Summer of Seduction), ABC, 2001.

Crime Scene Unit technician, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order: SVU and Special Victims Unit), NBC, 2002–2004.

Franco Rivera, Rescue Me, FX Channel, 2004—.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Christophe Mercier, Feast of All Saints (also known as Anne Rice's The Feast of All Saints), Showtime, 2001.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Valentine, Twelfth Night, or What You Will (also known as William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night), PBS, 1998.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Bomb squad officer, "Remorse," Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order: SVU and Special Victims Unit), NBC, 2000.

Louis Leroy, "Anchors Away," Sex and the City, HBO, 2002.

Himself, "The Body Politic," In the Life, PBS, 2003.

Danny Martin, "The Case," Ed (also known as Stuckeyville), NBC, 2003.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

Lewis Freeman, D.C., The WB, 2000.

Franco Rivera, Rescue Me, FX Channel, 2004.

Film Appearances:

Officer Carew, Bad Company (also known as Ceska spojka), Buena Vista, 2002.

Langston Hughes, Brother to Brother, 2004.

Noel, Neverland Films, 2004.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

People Weekly, May 12, 2003, p. 158.

Playbill, October 29, 2003; July 4, 2004; July 22, 2004.

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