Frankie Faison Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Frankie Faison Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Frankie Russel Faison (born June 10, 1949), often credited as Frankie

R. Faison, is an American actor known for his role as Deputy

Commissioner Ervin Burrell in the HBO series The Wire, as Barney

Matthews in the Hannibal Lecter franchise, and as Sugar Bates in the

Cinemax series Banshee.Faison was born in Newport News, Virginia, the

son of Carmena (née Gantt) and Edgar Faison. He studied drama at

Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, where he joined

Theta Chi fraternity. He also attended NYU's Graduate Acting Program,

graduating in 1974.Faison started his acting career in 1974 in the New

York Shakespeare Festival production of King Lear, with James Earl

Jones in the title role. Faison would later appear opposite Jones in

the Broadway premiere of Fences, for which he received a nomination

for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Faison's next role

came in TV, in the short-lived series Hot Hero Sandwich in 1979.

Faison did not make it to the big screen until 1980, when he appeared

in Permanent Vacation as "Man in Lobby". A string of small roles

followed until 1986, when he played the part of Lt. Fisk in Manhunter.

Also that year, he appeared in the comedy The Money Pit, as an unruly

construction worker, and in the Stephen King film Maximum Overdrive.

In 1988, he appeared alongside Eddie Murphy and James Earl Jones in

Coming to America in the role of a landlord and won a minor role in

the 1989 Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing. Faison also appeared in

1996's The Rich Man's Wife as Detective Ron Lewis. He also appeared in

the 1999 remake of "The Thomas Crown Affair" as Detective Paretti.

Faison is notable for being the most frequent actor to appear in

adaptations of Thomas Harris' Hannibal books: along with Manhunter, he

also appeared as Lecter's jailer Barney in The Silence of the Lambs,

the sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon.During the 1990â€"1991

season, he starred in the Fox situation comedy True Colors with

Stephanie Faracy and Nancy Walker about an interracial couple. He was

replaced by Cleavon Little for the second season of the program. In

1991, Faison again appeared alongside Hopkins in the film Freejack,

which also starred Mick Jagger and Maximum Overdrive co-star Emilio

Estevez. In 1998, he was a regular on the science-fiction TV show

Prey. In 1992, he played the patriarch Bailey in the Cheryl West play

Before It Hits Home. In the 2003 film Gods and Generals, Faison played

the role of Jim Lewis, a freed-slave, who shares his religious faith

and optimism with CSA General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson as the

General's personal cook. In 2004, he starred as JoJo Anderson in The

Cookout and appeared in White Chicks. Faison had a starring role as

the Baltimore City Police Commissioner Ervin Burrell on the HBO drama

The Wire.
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