Most wouldn’t see a link between stone-cold killer Chris Partlow from HBO’s The Wire, flashy pimp-turned-porn-star Larry Brown on HBO’s The Deuce and Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in Broadway’s To Kill a Mockingbird. But Gbenga Akinnagbe, the actor who has brought all three to life, notices a strong connection.
“All of these characters are just trying to get through each day the best way they know how,” says Gbenga Akinnagbe (pronounced BENG-ga a-KEEN-na-begh), who’s making his Broadway debut in Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Full profile of Gbenga Akinnagbe in TDF Stages
Below: Photographs of several of his best-known characters.
As Chris Partlow the killer in The Wire
as Larry the pimp in The Deuce on HBO
as Erik Ritter in 24
:Gbenga Akinnagbe as Jeremiah Bello in Graceland
in Nurse Jackie
As Pastor Isaiah in The Good Wife
With Laura Linney in Savages
Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch and Gbenga Akinnagbe as Tom Robinson in To Kill A Mockingbird photo Julieta Cervantes
