Actors - Cleavant Derricks

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Cleavant Derricks is best known as a star of the television series Sliders and should not be confused with the prolific songwriter Cleavant Derricks.

Cleavant Derricks was born May 15, 1953 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America. He has a twin brother Clinton Derricks-Carroll. As an actor, singer and composer he began his career as a Nashville gospel songwriter. Along with his father he wrote the gospel album Satisfaction Guaranteed. As time went by Derricks went to New York City to study acting with Vinette Carrol at the Urban Arts Theatre. He received rave reviews for his performance in her Broadway shows, including But Never Jam Today. He also won a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for creating the role of James Thunder Early in Dreamgirls
.

Soon after this Derricks began to get film roles such as Moscow on the Hudson
Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife and recently, Wes Craven's Carnival of Souls. Cleavant Derricks has also starred as a series regular on the television series Thea with Brandy, Good Sports with Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal and Sliders with Jerry O'Connell and John Rhys-Davies. Cleavant Derricks is the only original slider to stick it out for the entire series. In addition, Derricks has had numerous guest starring role in series such as Roseanne, A Different World, Miami Vice
, Spencer for Hire and many others. He has also starred in Brooklyn the Musical on Broadway as the Magic Man

Music

Cleavant Derricks won his Tony Award for Featured Actor -- Musical for Dreamgirls. He was the musical director and composer for When Hell Freezes Over I'll Skate.

Albums

Beginnings - Released December 4, 1999
Dreamgirls (1982 Original Broadway Cast) - Released October 25, 1990

Filmography

For television series the years shown are the years Cleavant Derricks starred or guest starred.

The Bernie Mac Show (2002) as Willie
World Traveler (2001) as Carl
The Practice (2001) as Mr. Lees
18 Wheels of Justice (2000) as Harold Baines
Charmed (2000) as Cleavant Wilson
Touched by an Angel (1999) as Robert
Wes Craven
's Carnival of Souls
(1998) as Sid
Sliders (1995 - 2000) as Rembrandt 'Cryin' Man' Brown
Something Wilder (1994 - 1995) as Caleb
Thea (1993 - 1994) as Charles
Woops! (1992)
Drexel's Class (1991 - 1992) as George Foster
Good Sports (1991) as Jeff Mussberger
Sibs (1991)
L.A. Law (1991) as Mark Wright
A Different World (1991) as Larry
Roseanne (1989)
Moonlighting (1987) as Leonard Haven
Spencer for Hire (1987) as Mac Dickerson
Bluffing It (1987) as Cal
Mickey and Nora (1987) as Marvin
The Equalizer (1986) as Sonny Raines
Off Beat (1986) as Abe Washington
Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife (1985) as Manny Alvarado
Miami Vice
(1985) as David Jones
Moscow on the Hudson
(1984) as Lionel Witherspoon, Bloomingdales Security Officer
The Ambush Murders (1982)
Fort Apache the Bronx (1981) as Suspect #4
When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate (1979)
Cindy
(1978) as Michael Simpson

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