RUBEN SANTIAGO HUDSON

BIOGRAPHY:

In 2003 Ruben Santiago-Hudson was the reader in Volume 13 of the HBO film, Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives. The series was narrated by Whoopi Goldberg.

He wrote Lackawanna Blues (2001), an autobiographical play in which he portrayed himself and some twenty different characters from his past, which was produced in New York at the Joseph Papp Theatre in 2001. He adapted it for a highly acclaimed, award-winning 2005 HBO film, in which the parts were played by different people. He won the Humanitas Prize and earned Emmy and Writers Guild of America Award nominations.

Santiago-Hudson appeared on Broadway in Jelly’s Last Jam (1992), written by George C. Wolfe. He received the 1996 Tony for his performance in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars. Santiago-Hudson’s screen credits include Coming to America and Domestic Disturbance.

On television he has appeared on the daytime dramas Another World and All My Children. His work in primetime series have included The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, NYPD Blue, Touched by an Angel, The West Wing, Third Watch, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and five episodes of Law & Order (which coincidentally stars Lackawanna Blues star S. Epatha Merkerson), among others.

He starred as New York City Police Captain Roy Montgomery in the ABC series Castle until his character’s death occurred in the third season finale. Penny Johnson Jerald as Captain Victoria “Iron” Gates replaced Santiago-Hudson in Castle ‘s fourth and fifth season.

In 2007 he starred in a Public Broadcasting Service Nova documentary about the life of chemist Percy Lavon Julian.

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