Hill Harper

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Biography

Hill Harper, an accomplished film, television and stage actor, stars in the hit CBS drama series, _"CSI: NY" from Harvard Law School, as well as with a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government. He is a full-time member of Boston's Black Folk's Theater Company, one of the nation's oldest and most respected African-American traveling theater troupes. Harper's Bazaar wrote, "You might expect Hill Harper to be the next actor vying for the presidency... but he has other things on his agenda".

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·producer·writer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 17 May 1966
  • Place of birth
  • Iowa City· Iowa
  • Education
  • John F. Kennedy School of Government·Harvard Law School·Brown University
  • Member of
  • Alpha Phi Alpha·Democratic Party

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Was a part of "The New Harmony Project" in the summer of 1997.

He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and graduated with a J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard Law School, as well as with a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government.

The 13th Annual Inner City Awards honored him with the W.E.B. DuBois Scholar Award.

Appears with William Petersen in The Skulls . He is currently one of the stars of "CSI: NY" , the spin-off of Petersens series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" .

Author of a book of advice for teens, Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny. The book won the American Library Associations 2007 prize for Best Book for Young Adults.

He and president Barack Obama , were classmates at Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Obama National Finance Committee.

A member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, incorporated since 2008.

Previously worked with current "CSI: NY" co-star, Anna Belknap in the television series, "The Handler" .

Son of Marilyn Harper.

Cousin of Lois Eichacker.

Friends with Chenoa Maxwell , and Steve Harvey.

Quotes

I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.

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