![]() Then in 1999 he received a Satellite Awards nomination for Best Actor in a TV Drama Series for his performances in Oz. ![]() He won the award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in the inaugural CableACE Awards for his performance in the first series of Oz in the ceremony held in Los Angeles. Walker spent time at a mosque in Harlem doing research on the Nation of Islam and American Muslim culture, explaining "As an actor, my portrayal had to be real." He appeared in the first episode on 12 July 1997 and he continued to play the role until the third episode of the final season in 2003. The series was set in a fictional maximum-security prison, and the character Walker played was a new inmate who was a devout Muslim. The same year he won the major role of Kareem Saïd on the American television drama series Oz on HBO in the United States. He appeared as Jake Brown in the miniseries Supply & Demand in 1997. He also appeared in the drama series The Governor.ġ997 to present – Hollywood and U.S. He followed this in 1995 with appearances in two more British sitcoms, on the BBC, The Detectives and Goodnight Sweetheart. His second film came in 1994 playing Peters in Shopping. Then in 1993 he appeared in two comedies on BBC, with the role of Colin in three episodes of Birds of a Feather and he also appeared in an episode of One Foot in the Grave. In 1992 he appeared in episodes of Love Hurts and The Old Boy Network. He also appeared in an episode of the detective series Bergerac on BBC1. His first film role came in 1991, playing Carlton in Young Soul Rebels about the interaction between different youth cultural movements in late 1970s Britain. In 1988 he won the role of PC Malcolm Haynes in The Bill on ITV, a part he played from 1988–89. In 1987 he appeared in an episode of Bulman on Granada TV and in 1988 an episode of the ninth series of Tales of the Unexpected. Also that year, he was cast in the role of Winston, a black, gay, council carer and a thorn in Alf Garnett's side, for series 1–3 of In Sickness and in Health on BBC1. His next television appearance came the following year in an episode of the children's anthology series Dramarama, also on ITV. His first television appearance came in 1985 when he appeared in an episode on the second series of Dempsey and Makepeace, which aired on ITV on 19 October 1985. Walker made his professional acting debut in 1983 on stage in London playing an East End punk rocker in the musical Labelled with Love, based partly on the music of the pop band Squeeze. He also studied at the New York Film Academy in the United States. However, an abscess on his calf muscle forced him to give up dancing. He trained as a dancer and later joined the Explosive Dance Theatre Company in London. He attended Hungerford School in Islington and began studying social work at the Polytechnic of North London. Brought up in Islington in north London, Walker lived in Trinidad for six months when he was nine years old. Walker was born in west London to a Grenadian father and a Trinidadian mother, in 1962. His films include Young Soul Rebels (1991), Once in the Life (2000), Legacy (2010), and A Lonely Place to Die (2011). Since 2012, Walker has starred in the NBC drama Chicago Fire and its spinoffs. He led the ITV television film Othello (2001) and had a further role in the Fox series Justice (2006–2007). ![]() On television, he began in the BBC sitcom In Sickness and in Health (1985–1987), the ITV crime dramas The Bill (1988–1989) and Supply & Demand (1998), and the HBO series Oz (1997–2003), for which he won a CableACE Award. Eamonn Roderique Walker (born 12 June 1962) is an English actor.
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