Glynn Turman

Glynn Turman (born January 31, 1947) is a distinguished American actor, director, writer, and producer. His acting career began in the limelight as a child actor in the original 1959 Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun. Turman took on various noteworthy roles - Lew Miles on the prime-time soap opera Peyton Place (1968–1969), high school student Leroy "Preach" Jackson in the 1975 coming-of-age film Cooley High, math professor and retired Army colonel Bradford Taylor on the NBC sitcom A Different World (1988–1993), and Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series The Wire. His exceptional performance on the HBO drama series In Treatment fetched him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

Moreover, he had displayed his exemplary talent in the Showtime series House of Lies as Jeremiah Kaan, Doctor Senator in the fourth season of the FX black comedy crime drama series Fargo, and starred in the 2020 Netflix film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. His film career started in the 1970s and includes works like Five on the Black Hand Side (1973), Thomasine & Bushrod (1974), Cooley High (1975), The River Niger (1976), and many more. His life was not confined to acting and directing alone, Turman has too produced a one-man show, Movin' Man, about his life.