Daniel Sunjata Biography

Daniel Sunjata is an American actor who performs in film television and theater. He is best known for his role as Franco Rivera in the FX television series Rescue Me and as Paul Briggs in USA Network's series Graceland.
Sunjata was born and raised in Chicago Illinois. He is the adopted son of a police dispatcher and a civil rights worker. He is of mixed black Irish and German ancestry.
Sunjata graduated from Mount Carmel High School in Chicago where he played linebacker for two state championship football teams. He completed his undergraduate studies at Florida A&M University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He then received a master's degree in fine arts from the Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Sunjata played the role of a sailor on shore leave on the first post-9/11 themed episode of Sex and The City. He has portrayed Langston Hughes in the film Brother to Brother and James Holt a fashion designer in The Devil Wears Prada. He starred as firefighter Franco Rivera on the television program Rescue Me. During the summer of 2007 he also starred in the ESPN miniseries The Bronx is Burning as Reggie Jackson. He appeared as a Special Forces Operative in Christopher Nolan's In 2016 he starred in the 10 episode mini-series on ABC.

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