About

Dorian Harewood 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: the role of Simon Haley (father of author Alex Haley) in Roots: The Next Generations, and the role of Jesse Owens, 1936 Olympic champion and American hero, in The Jesse Owens Story.

            Mr. Harewood has starred in several television series, including Viper for NBC, The Trials of Rosie O’Neill with Sharon Gless (CBS), Strike Force with Robert Stack (ABC), Trauma Center (ABC) 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 had a recurring role in the long-running fan favorite, 7th Heaven, as next-door-neighbor Reverend Hamilton, and appeared in both the NBC series, Las Vegas, starring James Caan, and the ABC series, Private Practice, a spinoff of the hit series, Grey’s Anatomy. He has starred in numerous television movies and guest-starred on several television series, including The Christmas Shoes, starring Rob Lowe, Showtime’s Walter & Henry, directed by Daniel Petrie and produced by Norman Jewison, The Triangle for TBS, The Last Debate, directed by John Badham, The Jimi Hendrix Story, Siege, Foster and Laurie, China Beach, Matlock, Murder She Wrote, the Disney musicals Polly and Polly: One More Time, and ABC’s The Practice.  He also 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.

            Mr. Harewood’s feature film credits include Stanley Kubrick’s anti-war film Full Metal Jacket, Sudden Death, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Against All Odds, Sparkle, The Falcon and the Snowman, Levity, starring Morgan Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton, Holly Hunter and Kirsten Dunst, Gothika, starring Halle Berry and Robert Downey, Jr., and Assault On Precinct 13, starring Laurence Fishburne and Ethan Hawke.

            An accomplished singer, Dorian Harewood has had the privilege of touring Europe with the legendary Four Tops, singing live onstage with the incomparable Stevie Wonder, and performing at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City as well as the Las Vegas Hilton with the great Gladys Knight.  He has performed on Broadway and in theaters across the country, starring in Kiss of the Spider Woman with Chita Rivera, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Jesus Christ Superstar, Over Here with John Travolta, The Pajama Game, Purlie, and Crumbs From The Table Of Joy, for which he won an NAACP Theatre Award.  Mr. Harewood also starred in the Broadway plays Streamers, directed by Mike Nichols, Don’t Call Back, and The Mighty Gents with Morgan Freeman.  But his most fateful job was his starring role in the musical Miss Moffat, opposite the late great Bette Davis, the woman responsible for his decision to become an actor.

Mr. Harewood has also enjoyed a prolific career as a voiceover artist, lending his distinctive sound to roles ranging from a purple “Monstar” in Space Jam, starring Michael Jordan, to the iconic theme song of Warner Brother’s Pinky and the Brain, to a myriad of superheroes, Saturday morning cartoons, and video game characters, to his current position as an announcer for NBC.