Harold Perrineau is an American musician and actor. He is known for his roles in such projects as "On the Edge" (1997), "Woman from Above" (2000), "Prison OZ" (1997 - 2003), "Unusual Detective" (2009), "Konstantin" (2014 - 2015), etc. In the article, we will take a closer look at the biography and filmography of the actor.
Biography
Harold Perrineau (photo below) was born in 1963 in Brooklyn (New York). But he got this surname from his mother Sylvia Perrino. After all, his father Harold Williams did not dare to marry her. He attended Shenandoah Private Liberal Arts University but for some reason did not graduate.
Since 2012, Harold has been married to Barbara Perrineau, an American actress and model who once worked with Liz Claiborne and fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger. Moreover, before marriage, they met for about 10 years and already raised their first daughter.
Career start
Harold Perrino's filmography began in 1986, when he played the role of a dancer in the serial musical drama Fame (1982 - 1987) for 18 episodes. After that he startedclimb the career ladder. He landed a small role in James Glickenhouse's crime thriller Blackmail (1988). And starred in one episode of the American NBC comedy series The Cosby Show (1984 - 1992).
In 1989, Harold Perrino got the role of the second (or even third) plan in Abel Ferrar's crime thriller King of New York. Then, after several episodic roles, he took a place in the cast of Paul Auster and Wayne Wang's comedy-drama "Smoke" (1994). Then he was invited to shoot Baz Luhrmann's melodrama Romeo + Juliet (1996).
A year later, Harold Perrineau played one of the main characters in Lee Tamahori's action adventure "On the Edge" (1997). He landed the role of Julian Murchison, an expert on working with disadvantaged children, in Malcolm D. Lee's comedy-drama The Best Man (1999), as well as crossdresser M. Jones in Fina Torres' fantasy comedy The Woman on Top (2000).
Matrix in black and white
In 2001, the actor starred in Desmond Hall's drama A Day in Black and White. He played another main character in the drama of Jed Weintraub “On_Line. Sex, Lies and the Internet (2001). From 1997 to 2003, he was August Hill, a disabled prisoner, in the serial drama OZ by Tom Fontana (1997 - 2003), as well as an operator on board the anti-gravity ship "Nebuchadnezzar" named Link in the second and third parts of the fantasy action movie of the Wachowski brothers The Matrix.
In the film about Rick Roman Waugh's prison "Criminal" (2008), Harold Perrineau playedLieutenant Jackson. The role of detective Leo Banks, who was worried that he was destined to die at the age of 42, he received in the comedy detective Noah Hawley's "Unusual Detective" (mini-series, 2009). And as a sales agent named Dixon, he appeared in Mark Young's crime drama The Deadly Insult (2010).
Hungry rabbit on the road
Mike Dawson, one of the survivors of the plane crash, Harold played for 63 episodes of the sci-fi drama Lost. He played one of the main roles in Roger Donaldson's thriller The Hungry Bunny Attacks (2011), and also received a supporting role in Catherine Bigelow's thriller Target Number One (2012).
In 2012, as Damon Pope, he took part in the filming of 12 episodes of Kurt Sutter's crime drama Sons of Anarchy. He played Stevie in the American TBS mini-series "Rock and Roll on the Road" (2012 - 2013). And then got a small role in David Ayer's action movie Sabotage (2013) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Future projects
From 2014 to 2015, Harold Perrineau played Manny, an angel sent to oversee the actions of John Constantine, in the DC drama Constantine. He also played one of the main characters in Akiva Goldsman's fantasy horror film Stephanie.
As for future projects, several more films starring Herold Perrineau are expected to be released. For example, the shooting of Michelle Schumacher's drama "I'm Not Here" has already been completed.and fantastic melodrama Corey Cataldo "Without care". And little-known projects, The Dancing Bull and When We Were Pirates, are likely to appear next year.
