Roscoe Hunter Orman (born June 11, 1944) is an American actor, writer,
artist and child advocate, best known for playing Gordon Robinson, one
of the central human characters on Sesame Street.While a student at
New York City's High School of Art and Design, Orman made his
theatrical debut in the 1962 topical revue "If We Grow Up." He was an
early member of the Free Southern Theater in New Orleans for two years
in the mid-1960s and a founding member of Robert Macbeth's New
Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, NY, where he both acted in and directed
several plays by NLT's playwright-in-residence, Ed Bullins. His many
other stage appearances have included roles in "Julius Caesar" and
"Coriolanus" at Joseph Papp's Public Theater, the Broadway production
of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Fences", Manhattan
Theatre Club's stagings of Richard Wesley's "The Sirens", "The Last
Street Play", and "The Talented Tenth", and Matt Robinson's one-man
play The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit at the American Place Theatre.
Orman is the recipient of two Audelco Theatre Awards and a five-time
nominee.He made his feature film debut in the title role of Universal
Studios' 1974 drama Willie Dynamite and has since appeared in F/X,
Striking Distance, New Jersey Drive, Sesame Street Presents Follow
That Bird, Twilight's Last Gleaming, The Adventures of Elmo in
Grouchland, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, Holiday Rush, and
"You Can't Take My Daughter". His television credits include work on
All My Children, Kojak, Sanford and Son, Cosby, Sex and the City, The
Wire, Law & Order, and Law and Order: SVU. He appeared in the Garry
Trudeau/Amazon streaming production Alpha House and the HBO
mini-series The Night Of.
artist and child advocate, best known for playing Gordon Robinson, one
of the central human characters on Sesame Street.While a student at
New York City's High School of Art and Design, Orman made his
theatrical debut in the 1962 topical revue "If We Grow Up." He was an
early member of the Free Southern Theater in New Orleans for two years
in the mid-1960s and a founding member of Robert Macbeth's New
Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, NY, where he both acted in and directed
several plays by NLT's playwright-in-residence, Ed Bullins. His many
other stage appearances have included roles in "Julius Caesar" and
"Coriolanus" at Joseph Papp's Public Theater, the Broadway production
of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Fences", Manhattan
Theatre Club's stagings of Richard Wesley's "The Sirens", "The Last
Street Play", and "The Talented Tenth", and Matt Robinson's one-man
play The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit at the American Place Theatre.
Orman is the recipient of two Audelco Theatre Awards and a five-time
nominee.He made his feature film debut in the title role of Universal
Studios' 1974 drama Willie Dynamite and has since appeared in F/X,
Striking Distance, New Jersey Drive, Sesame Street Presents Follow
That Bird, Twilight's Last Gleaming, The Adventures of Elmo in
Grouchland, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, Holiday Rush, and
"You Can't Take My Daughter". His television credits include work on
All My Children, Kojak, Sanford and Son, Cosby, Sex and the City, The
Wire, Law & Order, and Law and Order: SVU. He appeared in the Garry
Trudeau/Amazon streaming production Alpha House and the HBO
mini-series The Night Of.
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