Carl Lumbly
Carl Lumbly was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States on August 14th, 1951 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 72, Carl Lumbly biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Carl Winston Lumbly (born August 14, 1951) is an American actor.
Marcus Petrie, a CBS detective, a spy consultant for Cagney & Lacey, CIA Agent Marcus Dixon on ABC's ABC mystery drama Alias, and as the voice of the Martian Manhunter for the ABC espionage drama Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, as well as the direct-to-DVD animated film Justice League: Gods Among Us, are among his many titles.
On Supergirl from 2017 to 2019, Lumbly portrayed Martian Manhunter's father, M'yrnn.
Early life and background
Lumbly was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Jamaican immigrants. He graduated from South High School and Macalester College in nearby St. Paul.
Lumbly's first job was as a writer in Minnesota. He was cast as an actor while on assignment for a story about a workshop theatre. He worked with the improvisational company for two years and then migrated to San Francisco, where he discovered a newspaper ad looking for "two black actors for South African political plays." He auditioned and found one of the roles (along with then-unknown Danny Glover). Lumbly toured with Glover in Athol Fugard's Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island.
Personal life
Lumbly has been married twice and has one son. From 1987 to her death in 2010, he was married to actress Vonetta McGee. They had one son, who was born in 1988. Deborah Santana, a writer who married Lumbly in 2015, and the couple divorced in 2019.
Career
His first major role was Detective Marcus Petrie on the television series Cagney & Lacey (1982–1988), where his character was paired with Detective Victor Isbecki (Martin Kove). In 1985, he appeared as Theseus in The Gospel At Colonus, an African-American musical iteration of the Oedipus legend on PBS' Great Performances series.
In 1987, he garnered positive reviews for his portrayal of Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale in the HBO television film Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8. From 1989 to 1990, he portrayed ongoing character Earl Williams (named for the prisoner in Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's story The Front Page), a teacher falsely accused of the rape/murder of a female student, in the hit TV series L.A. Law.
In 1990, he co-starred in Charles Burnett's critically acclaimed film To Sleep with Anger. From 1994 to 1995, Lumbly starred as the main character in the short-lived science fiction series M.A.N.T.I.S.. One of his most visible roles was as Marcus Dixon in the American television series Alias (2001–2006).
Other prominent roles include providing the voice for the Martian Manhunter in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, which is why he was cast as the father of the same character in 2017 for the TV show Supergirl. In Superman: The Animated Series, Lumbly voiced the mayor of Metropolis in the episode "Speed Demons" in 1997, and an alien military general in the episode "Absolute Power" in 1999. He voiced the villain Stalker on Batman Beyond.
In 2000, Lumbly portrayed activist and Congressman Ron Dellums in the Disney Channel original film The Color of Friendship. Although the film was focused on Dellums' daughter's friendship with a white South African girl, the film also discussed Dellums' role in ending apartheid in South Africa.
Also in 2000, Lumbly guest starred in the season one The West Wing episode "Six Meetings Before Lunch" as Jeff Breckenridge, a nominee for U.S. Assistant Attorney General who supports reparations for slavery. Lumbly appeared as Daniel "Bulldog" Novacek in the 2004 television series Battlestar Galactica. He also plays a role in the Kane's Wrath expansion pack for the video game Command and Conquer 3. More recently, he played police captain Joe Rucker on TNT's Southland.
In 2017, Lumbly had some guest spots on Supergirl as the Martian Manhunter's father M'yrnn J'onzz.
In 2021, Lumbly guest starred in several episodes of the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as Isaiah Bradley, which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
He was also cast as the father of Beth Pearson, Abraham Clarke, in the series, This is Us.
Awards and nominations
- 1980: Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Lead Performance - Eden