Eriq La Salle Biography

Eriq La Salle was born July 23.La Salle was born and raised in Hartford Conn. one of four children.
In 1984 after studying for two years at Juilliard he received a B.F.A. in theater arts from New York University's graduate theater program. Just before his graduation he was cast in the first of several productions for Joseph Papp's Shakespeare in the Park theater company. Weeks later he landed his first feature-film role in a low-budget Italian movie shot in Florida. He soon found continuous acting work on Broadway off-Broadway and in the daytime TV drama One Life to Live as reporter Mike Rivers
In 1991 La Salle moved to Los Angeles to co-star (with John Mahoney of NBC's Frasier) in The Human Factor a series that lasted less than a year. He piled up TV credits by guest-starring on L.A. Law Quantum Leap and A Different World as well as in the HBO Vietnam War Stories. Among his TV-movie credits are Empty Cradle Circumstantial Evidence What Price Victory? and Leg Work. His feature films include Coming to America Five Corners Jacob's Ladder The Color of Night (starring Bruce Willis) and most recently D.R.O.P. Squad (of which Spike Lee was the executive producer). On stage he appeared in Two Trains Running at the Goodman Theatre.

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