An accomplished actor who has graced the stage, screen and television, Harold Perrineau has earned a well-deserved reputation as a performer willing to take on any role.
Perrineau starred on stage in Suzan Lori Parks` 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Topdog/Underdog, for which he won an NAACP Image Award. On the big screen he was most recently seen in 28 Weeks Later, and was featured in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, as well as in The Best Man, opposite Taye Diggs and Nia Long. For that role he received an Image Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Additionally, he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Rashid Cole in Wayne Wang`s critically acclaimed Smoke.
Other feature film credits include Woman on Top, opposite Penelope Cruz, Baz Luhrmann`s Romeo + Juliet, Lulu on the Bridge and Lee Tamahori`s The Edge, opposite Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin. He recently wrapped production on Felon, co-starring Val Kilmer, and Your Name Here, opposite Bill Pullman.
On television Perrineau played the wheelchair-bound Augustus Hill on Oz. His other television credits include a role in the TV movie An American Tempest, as well as guest appearances on ER, Law & Order and The Cosby Show.
Perrineau began his career in theatre, where he acted in a number of plays, including Dreamgirls, the critically acclaimed Avenue X, the Off-Broadway revival of Godspell and The Love of Bullets at the Public Theater. He garnered critical acclaim in Joe Penhall`s Blue/Orange, where he starred as a young man who receives the diagnosis of a borderline personality disorder.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Perrineau studied music and theatre at the Shenandoah Conservatory. He also studied on scholarship at the Alvin Ailey Company.
