Harold Perrineau

Harold Perrineau is an American actor, known for the roles of Michael Dawson in the U.S. television series Lost, Link in The Matrix films and games, Augustus Hill in the American television series Oz, Damon Pope in the FX bike gang drama Sons of Anarchy, and Mercutio in Baz Luhrmanns Romeo Juliet. He starred in ABCs comedydrama television series The Unusuals, playing NYPD homicide detective Leo Banks and has appeared in several highprofile films, including The Best Man,Weeks Later,Days of Night Dark Days, and Zero Dark Thirty. He also starred alongside Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin in the survival drama The Edge.

Perrineau was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Harold Williams and Sylvia Perrineau. His parents changed his name to Williams when he was seven. Harold later legally changed his name back to his birth name, after discovering there was already a Harold Williams in the Screen Actors Guild union. Perrineau attended Shenandoah University, but did not graduate. Perrineau and his wife, Brittany, have three daughters, Aurora Perrineau, born 1994, Wynter Aria, born on May 7, 2008, and Holiday Grace, born on March 21, 2013. Brittany had recurring appearances on US TV show Lost, appearing in the Seasonepisodes of Outlaws, as the girlfriend of Sawyer, and in the episode Numbers, as the woman who read the lottery numbers. Her acting credits also include the role of Dara in the romanticcomedy Saving Face, as well as appearing in the upcoming movie Your Name Here, currently in postproduction.

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