CURRENT GIG "Fences," playing Troy Maxson, a Negro League baseball player turned garbageman, in the revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1987 drama.
AGE 55
BORN AND RAISED Mount Vernon, N.Y. ("right on the edge of the Bronx").
ALMA MATER Fordham (where he majored in journalism).
AVAILABILITY Married to Pauletta Pearson since 1983.
BROADWAY PAST Brutus in "Julius Caesar," 2005. (Ben Brantley loved his monologues.) A hip young husband in "Checkmates," 1988. (Frank Rich couldn't understand what Washington and Ruby Dee were doing in a play this bad.)
OSCAR, OSCAR Best actor, 2002, "Training Day." Best supporting actor, 1989, "Glory."
REAL PEOPLE HE'S PLAYED Steven Biko, Ruben (Hurricane) Carter, Malcolm X.
BIG BREAK Playing young Dr. Phillip Chandler on NBC's "St. Elsewhere," 1982-88.
UNSEXIEST MAN ALIVE? "I know how to ugly up when I need to do it," he once told The Chicago Sun-Times. "I can let my hair grow on my face, pack on a few pounds and just look like a troll."
"Fences," by August Wilson, directed by Kenny Leon, Cort Theater, 138 West 48th Street, (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com. Opening night: April 26, 2010.
"Fences," by August Wilson, directed by Kenny Leon, Cort Theater, 138 West 48th Street, (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com. Opening night: April 26, 2010.
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