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Russell Hornsby is an American theater, television, and film actor. He is perhaps best known for portraying police officer Eddie Sutton on the ABC Family television drama series Lincoln Heights, Hank Griffin on the NBC series Grimm, and Luke on the HBO series In Treatment.
Early Life and Education[]
Hornsby was a football player at St. Mary's College High School in Berkeley, California. He auditioned for a spring musical and got the role of the Scarecrow in The Wiz. After that, he became very interested in theatre and acting and was highly involved with the rest of the school theatrical productions. After graduating he studied theater at Boston University from which he graduated with a degree in performance. After graduation, Hornsby continued his studies at Oxford University's British Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Career[]
After finishing his studies at Oxford, Hornsby moved to New York City and was subsequently cast in leading roles in Off Broadway productions of To Kill a Mockingbird (as Tom), Joe Louis Blues, and Six Degrees of Separation (as Paul). In the late 1990s, he decided to move to Los Angeles in order to transition into television and film. He has appeared in several different television productions including appearing in recurring roles in Haunted as Detective Marcus Bradshaw and Gideon's Crossing as Chief Resident Dr. Aaron Boise. His other television credits include Grey's Anatomy, Law & Order, and In Justice, among others. He also played running back Leon Taylor in ESPN's drama series Playmakers. On the big screen, he has appeared in such films as After the Sunset, Big Fat Liar, Get Rich or Die Tryin', Keep the Faith, Baby, Meet the Parents, and Stuck, among others. In 2000, Hornsby appeared in the Off-Broadway production of Jitney for which he won a Drama Desk Award and an Obie Award.
He currently lives in Los Angeles, California and is starring in the NBC fantasy drama, Grimm.
On March 24th 2014, Russell Hornsby was among the Grimm cast members who received an honorary badge from the Portland Police Department.[1]
Selected filmography[]
- Law & Order (1999) .... Danny Ruiz
- Meet the Parents (2000) .... Late Night Courier (Right Bag)
- Girlfriends (2001) ......Antoine Childs.... in place of Darius McCrary for one episode
- Gideon's Crossing (2000–2001) .... Dr. Aaron Boies
- Something New (2006) ... Dr. Borcklond
- Big Fat Liar (2002) .... Marcus Duncan
- Haunted (2002).... Marcus Bradshaw
- Playmakers (2003)....Leon Taylor
- Grey's Anatomy (2005) .... Digby Owens
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2005) .... Alvin Dutch
- Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (2005) .... Odell
- Lincoln Heights (2007) .... Eddie Sutton
- Stuck (2007) .... Rashid
- Army of Two (2008) (VG) .... Tyson Rios
- In Treatment (2009) .... Luke
- Suits (2011)
- Fences (2016)
- Grimm (2011-2017) .... Hank Griffin
Images[]
Trivia[]
- Hornsby tore his Achilles tendon while watching Super Bowl XLVII, so the plots of "Volcanalis" through "Goodnight, Sweet Grimm" had to be modified to work around it.
References[]
Season 1 Appearances | ||||||||||
"Pilot": ✓ |
"Bears Will Be Bears": ✓ |
"Beeware": ✓ |
"Lonelyhearts": ✓ |
"Danse Macabre": ✓ |
"The Three Bad Wolves": ✓ |
"Let Your Hair Down": ✓ |
"Game Ogre": ✓ |
"Of Mouse and Man": ✓ |
"Organ Grinder": ✓ |
"Tarantella": ✓ |
"Last Grimm Standing": ✓ |
"Three Coins in a Fuchsbau": ✓ |
"Plumed Serpent": ✓ |
"Island of Dreams": ✓ |
"The Thing with Feathers": ✓ |
"Love Sick": ✓ |
"Cat and Mouse": ✓ |
"Leave It to Beavers": ✓ |
"Happily Ever Aftermath": ✓ |
"Big Feet": ✓ |
"Woman in Black": ✓ |
Season 2 Appearances | ||||||||||
"Bad Teeth": ✓ |
"The Kiss": ✓ |
"Bad Moon Rising": ✓ |
"Quill": ✓ |
"The Good Shepherd": ✓ |
"Over My Dead Body": ✓ |
"The Bottle Imp": ✓ |
"The Other Side": ✓ |
"La Llorona": ✓ |
"The Hour of Death": ✓ |
"To Protect and Serve Man": ✓ |
"Season of the Hexenbiest": ✓ |
"Face Off": ✓ |
"Natural Born Wesen": ✓ |
"Mr. Sandman": ✓ |
"Nameless": ✓ |
"One Angry Fuchsbau": ✓ |
"Volcanalis": ✓ |
"Endangered": X |
"Kiss of the Muse": ✓ |
"The Waking Dead": ✓ |
"Goodnight, Sweet Grimm": ✓ |
Season 3 Appearances | ||||||||||
"The Ungrateful Dead": ✓ |
"PTZD": ✓ |
"A Dish Best Served Cold": ✓ |
"One Night Stand": ✓ |
"El Cucuy": ✓ |
"Stories We Tell Our Young": ✓ |
"Cold Blooded": ✓ |
"Twelve Days of Krampus": ✓ |
"Red Menace": ✓ |
"Eyes of the Beholder": ✓ |
"The Good Soldier": ✓ |
"The Wild Hunt": ✓ |
"Revelation": ✓ |
"Mommy Dearest": ✓ |
"Once We Were Gods": ✓ |
"The Show Must Go On": ✓ |
"Synchronicity": ✓ |
"The Law of Sacrifice": ✓ |
"Nobody Knows the Trubel I've Seen": ✓ |
"My Fair Wesen": ✓ |
"The Inheritance": ✓ |
"Blond Ambition": ✓ |
Season 4 Appearances | ||||||||||
"Thanks for the Memories": ✓ |
"Octopus Head": ✓ |
"The Last Fight": ✓ |
"Dyin' on a Prayer": ✓ |
"Cry Luison": ✓ |
"Highway of Tears": ✓ |
"The Grimm Who Stole Christmas": ✓ |
"Chupacabra": ✓ |
"Wesenrein": ✓ |
"Tribunal": ✓ |
"Death Do Us Part": ✓ |
"Maréchaussée": ✓ |
"Trial by Fire": ✓ |
"Bad Luck": ✓ |
"Double Date": ✓ |
"Heartbreaker": ✓ |
"Hibernaculum": ✓ |
"Mishipeshu": ✓ |
"Iron Hans": ✓ |
"You Don't Know Jack": ✓ |
"Headache": ✓ |
"Cry Havoc": ✓ |
Season 5 Appearances | ||||||||||
"The Grimm Identity": ✓ |
"Clear and Wesen Danger": ✓ |
"Lost Boys": ✓ |
"Maiden Quest": ✓ |
"The Rat King": ✓ |
"Wesen Nacht": ✓ |
"Eve of Destruction": ✓ |
"A Reptile Dysfunction": ✓ |
"Star-Crossed": ✓ |
"Map of the Seven Knights": ✓ |
"Key Move": ✓ |
"Into the Schwarzwald": ✓ |
"Silence of the Slams": ✓ |
"Lycanthropia": ✓ |
"Skin Deep": ✓ |
"The Believer": ✓ |
"Inugami": ✓ |
"Good to the Bone": ✓ |
"The Taming of the Wu": ✓ |
"Bad Night": ✓ |
"Set Up": ✓ |
"The Beginning of the End": ✓ |
Season 6 Appearances | ||||||||||
"Fugitive": ✓ |
"Trust Me Knot": ✓ |
"Oh Captain, My Captain": ✓ |
"El Cuegle": ✓ |
"The Seven Year Itch": ✓ |
"Breakfast in Bed": ✓ |
"Blind Love": ✓ | ||||
"The Son Also Rises": ✓ |
"Tree People": ✓ |
"Blood Magic": ✓ |
"Where the Wild Things Were": ✓ |
"Zerstörer Shrugged": ✓ |
"The End": ✓ |