Harry Lennix

Harry Joseph Lennix III is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Terrence Dresser Williams in the Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats and as Boyd Langton in the Joss Whedon television series Dollhouse. Lennix currently costars as Harold Cooper, Assistant Director of the FBI Counterterrorism Division, on the NBC drama The Blacklist. Lennix played Calvin Swanwick in the DC Extended Universe.

The youngest of four siblings, Lennix was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Lillian C. , a laundress, and Harry Lennix, Jr., a machinist. His mother was AfricanAmerican and his father was a Creole from Louisiana. Lennix attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary South and Northwestern University, where he majored in Acting and Direction. In his senior year at Northwestern, he was the coordinator of the AfricanAmerican student organization, For Members Only. He taught music and civics for several years in the Chicago Public School system and is a frequent lecturer.

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