Harry Lennix Biography

Harry Lennix most recently appeared in the hit film Stomp the Yard, and the television series 24. Lennix portrayed the legendary Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. in Showtime’s Keep The Faith Baby, for which he won a Black Reel Award and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. For his portrayal as Aaron the Moor in Julie Taymor’s film Titus, he won the Golden Satellite Award from the International Press Academy. As a stage actor, Lennix was the first distinguished recipient of an Ollie Award for his portrayal of Malcolm X at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and two Joseph Jefferson Citations for his roles in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Caught in the Act and starred as King Hedley II at the Mark Taper Forum.  In 2001, he was part of the first American company to be invited to the Royal Shakespeare Company in the production of Cymbeline.