Glynn Turman
Acting
Awards
Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award
Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won
- 2008 Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Won In Treatment
Ovation Awards 1 won
- — Ovation Awards Won
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Glynn Russell Turman, born on January 31, 1947, in New York City, is a revered American stage, television, and film actor as well as a writer, whose career spans decades. He gained early recognition for his role as Leroy "Preach" Jackson in the 1975 film "Cooley High." Turman's talent shone on Broadway, earning a Tony Award for "The Great White Hope." He's renowned for TV work in "The Wire," math professor and retired Army colonel Bradford Taylor on the NBC sitcom "A Different World," fictional Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series "The Wire" and "House of Lies." His filmography includes impactful roles in "Gremlins" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." With a captivating presence, Turman continues to enthrall audiences, showcasing remarkable versatility and depth in his performances.
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Filmography
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Acting
52 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Criminal Minds
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Suits
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
NCIS: Los Angeles
Fargo
The Wire
ER
Murder, She Wrote
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
How to Get Away with Murder
Scrubs
Paradise
FBI: Most Wanted
black-ish
American Playhouse
Matlock
Touched by an Angel
The Neighborhood
T. J. Hooker
The Twilight Zone
In Treatment
Mr. Mercedes
Millennium
American Gods
The Bernie Mac Show
A Different World
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Power Book II: Ghost
House of Lies
STRAW
FlashForward
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Bumblebee
Gremlins
Revolution
Freddy's Nightmares
Alcatraz
The Magnificent Seven
Men of Honor
Super 8
The Defenders
Centennial
The Big Cigar
Sahara
80 for Brady
CBS Playhouse
The Way Back
The Red Line
Deep Cover
Burlesque
Directing
5 credits
Other credits
4 credits
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