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| Popular As | Eriq La Salle |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 62 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | July 23, 1962 ( Hartford, Connecticut, United States) |
| Birthday | July 23 |
| Town/City | Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Nationality | United States |
Eriq La Salle’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Eriq La Salle was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
La Salle, one of four children, was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, by his mother, Ada Haynes. He is an alumnus of Weaver High School and the Artists Collective, Inc. in Hartford. He attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division for two years as a member of Group 13 (1980–84), then attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate Acting Program in 1984.
In 1988, La Salle starred alongside Eddie Murphy in the movie Coming to America as Darryl Jenks.
In 1994 the medical drama ER premiered on NBC with La Salle starring as Dr. Peter Benton. He held the role until leaving during the eighth season.
In 1996, La Salle made his directorial debut in the HBO made-for-TV movie Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault, starring Don Cheadle, James Earl Jones and Forest Whitaker, in which La Salle also played a pivotal role. Shortly after that, La Salle also directed the pilot for Soul Food: The Series on Showtime.
In 2002, he produced the feature film The Salton Sea with Val Kilmer and in the same year, he produced, directed and starred in the movie Crazy as Hell. In 2003 he wrote, directed and starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "Memphis", and has subsequently directed multiple episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, CSI: NY, Ringer and A Gifted Man, as well as the 2012 Hallmark Channel movie, Playing Father.
On January 31, 2003 He had a cameo in Biker Boyz as an unnamed mechanic for a legendary motorcycle racer named Smoke.
He then played a Jamaican gangster in the independent film Johnny Was opposite Vinnie Jones, Samantha Mumba, Lennox Lewis, and Roger Daltrey. La Salle lived in Belfast, for four weeks while filming the movie, which he supported at the North American premiere of the film in 2006, at the American Black Film Festival in Miami.
He also starred in the Hallmark Channel original movie, Relative Stranger, which premiered on March 14, 2009. Also in the movie were Cicely Tyson as well as La Salle's former ER castmates Michael Michele (Dr. Cleo Finch) and Michael Beach (Al Boulet).
In 2010, La Salle played the United Nations Secretary General in the series finale of 24 and guest-starred in an episode of Covert Affairs in August of the same year.
In 2011, he played two recurring roles – one as a Caribbean community leader who rallied against the product Rasta Monsta in HBO's How to Make it in America, the second as the neuropsychiatrist E-Mo in CBS' A Gifted Man.
After several years spent both in front and behind the camera, Eriq La Salle decided to face a new angle of storytelling and, in 2012, published his first novel Laws of Depravity.
In 2015, La Salle returned to television with a role in Under the Dome's third season, after having directed one episode of the second season. He directed an episode in the third season as well. He also had minor roles as an actor in CSI: Cyber (for which he also directed episodes), The Night Shift, Madam Secretary.
In 2016, La Salle directed the episode 'Wingman' in the Fox series Lucifer and the episode 'Black and Blue' of TNTs Murder in the First. La Salle co-starred as Will Munson in the 2017 superhero film, Logan.
