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| Erik Dellums | |
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| Born | September 23, 1964 San Francisco, California |
Erik Todd Dellums (born September 23, 1964)[1] is a U.S. actor. He has had parts in television police dramas such as New York Undercover, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Wire. He was featured on Homicide in a multi-season recurring role as fictional drug kingpin Luther Mahoney; on The Wire he plays a medical examiner.
Erik was born in the San Francisco bay area and moved to Washington D.C. in his teens. He graduated from Brown University in 1986 and has since worked in LA, NY and Washington D.C.He was the son of Leola "Roscoe", a lawyer, and Ron Dellums, the mayor of Oakland and former U.S. Representative from California.[2] Early in his career he had minor appearances in several Spike Lee films, such as She's Gotta Have It and Do the Right Thing. He was portrayed (as a child) by Travis Kyle Davis in the Disney Channel Original Movie, The Color of Friendship which was based on what happened when his family hosted a foreign exchange student from South Africa during the Apartheid era; Erik Dellums himself a cameo in this movie playing one of Congressman Dellums' aides. In addition, he provided the voice acting for the character Koh the Face Stealer in the animated Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender, as well as the narration for "Key Constitutional Concepts", a documentary produced in 2006 by the Annenberg Foundation.
He did voice acting for the 2008 game Fallout 3, as Three Dog, a radio DJ of Galaxy News Radio, an in-game radio station.
Dellums narrates the Travel Channel program Mysterious Journeys.
Most recently, Dellums provided voice-acting for Nazir, a Redguard assassin and member of the Dark Brotherhood, in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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- ^ According to the State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. Searchable at http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/39461
- ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/89/Erik-Todd-Dellums.html
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