Dennis Haysbert Biography

Fast Facts

• Was a defensive end on his high-school football team
• Graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Art
• Made TV debut in a 1979 Lou Grant episode; his movie debut was 10 years later in Major League
• Breakthrough movie was 1992's Love Field, opposite Michelle Pfeiffer
• Received acclaim for 2002's Far from Heaven, in his role as a gardener to whom a 1950s housewife (Julianne Moore) is attracted; the film was a reworking of 1955 tearjerker All That Heaven Allows
• David Mamet's series The Unit (2006-2009) is the sixth in which Haysbert was a regular, following 24, Now and Again, Just the Ten of Us, Off the Rack and Code Red