Biography
Glynn Turman is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer known for his roles in Peyton Place, Cooley High, A Different World, and The Wire. He gained fame as a child actor in A Raisin in the Sun and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in In Treatment.
Age
He is 77 years old as of 31 January 2024. He was born in 1947 in New York, New York, United States. His real name is Glynn Russell Turman.
Family – Education
Turman’s maternal origin is shared with the Nigerian Edo people, according to DNA testing. Turman graduated in 1965 from the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan, New York City.
Wife – Children
Turman has four children and three marriages under his belt. Ula M. Walker and Turman were wed from 1965 to 1971. Turman and Walker had three kids together. On April 11, 1978, Turman wed singer Aretha Franklin at Detroit, Michigan’s New Bethel Baptist Church, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was a pastor. After splitting up in 1982, Turman and Franklin got divorced in 1984. In 1992, Turman wed Jo-Ann Allen. Allen and Turman have a single daughter.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.
Women of the Movement
He appeared as Rev. Mose Wright, Mamie’s uncle in the American historical drama miniseries Women of the Movement. Emmett Till, the son of Mamie Till-Mobley, was killed in Mississippi in 1955 during the Jim Crow era. Her efforts to obtain justice for him and ensure that he was not forgotten would eventually help to spark the civil rights movement.
The series is based on Devery S. Anderson’s book Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement. In August 2021, during post-production, Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson’s book Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America was included to the project.
Career
Turman had his most memorable noticeable acting job at 12 years old as Travis More youthful in the first Broadway creation of Lorraine Hansberry’s exemplary play, A Raisin in the Sun, inverse Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett Jr., Lonne Senior III, John Fiedler and Diana Sands. In the wake of graduating secondary school, he apprenticed in provincial and repertory organizations all through the US, including Tyrone Guthrie’s Repertory Theater, in which he acted in late 1960s creations of Good Young men, Harper’s Ship, The Visit, and The Place of Atreus. He made his Los Angeles stage debut in William Hanley’s Sluggish Dance on the Killing Ground. A 1974 presentation in The Wine Dealers procured him a Los Angeles Pundits Grant designation and a Dramalogue Grant. The play was additionally delivered on Broadway as What The Wine Venders Purchase.
Turman won his most memorable NAACP Picture Grant for his work in According to the American. He accepted his second NAACP Picture grant for coordinating Deadwood Dick at the Ghetto Social Center in Los Angeles.
On TV, he has coordinated episodes of The Parent ‘Hood, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, An Alternate World, and The Wayans Brothers. Turman started his movie vocation during the 1970s with blaxploitation flicks remembering Five for the Dark Hand Side (1973), Thomasine and Bushrod (1974) and Together Siblings (1974), then advanced to jobs in Cooley High (1975), or more The Stream Niger (1976), J. D’s. Vengeance (1976) and A Legend Ain’t Nothin’ however a Sandwich (1978). Television motion pictures incorporated Carter’s Military, the lofty Centennial, Attica, and Performer Man, for which he won his third NAACP Picture Grant.
Turman showed up in television films Rush to Opportunity: The Underground Railroad in 1994, Bison Warriors, and Opportunity Melody. More outstanding movies incorporate Prison II (1982), Devils (1984), Profound Cover (1992), How Stella Got Her Depression Back (1998), Praiseworthy people (2000), Sahara (2005), Lords of the Night (2007), Vaudeville (2010) and Very 8 (2011). In 2004, he joined the HBO series The Wire depicting the common job of City hall leader Clarence Royce, turning into a full-time standard in 2006. His depiction of City chairman Royce procured him a NAACP Picture Grant selection for Remarkable Supporting Entertainer in a Show Series in 2007.
Since The Wire, Turman visitor featured as a patient in the Cleans episode “My Final Words”. Turman’s other TV appearances incorporate Hawaii Five-O (as Harley Dartson, 1973, “Stunts Are Not Treats”), a Twilight Zone section “Paladin of the Lost Hour” (co-featuring Danny Kaye with a content by Harlan Ellison), Matlock, Thousand years, and the sitcom We all. In 2008, he won an Early evening Emmy grant for his visitor appearance on the HBO series In Treatment. He showed up in the ABC series Detroit 1-8-7. He has performed and delivered a small time show, Movin’ Man, about his life.
Turman tried out for the job of Han Solo in Star Wars. In a 2007 meeting. In 2012, he started showing up in Place of Lies on Kickoff as the dad of the characters played by Wear Cheadle and Larenz Tate. In 2016, he showed up in the Oprah Winfrey Organization Program Sovereign Sugar wherein he played the dad, Ernest Bordelon.
In 2017, Turman was given a role as Nate Lahey Sr. in 10 episodes in seasons 4 and 5 of the ABC show How to Pull off Murder. His personality is the detained father of Nate Lahey (Billy Brown), a previous cop, criminal investigator and darling to series star Annalise Keating (Viola Davis). In 2018, Turman showed up on the lawful show Suits as Vic.
Turman as of late showed up in the ABC restricted series Ladies of the Development in 2021, playing Mose Wright, Emmett Till’s extraordinary uncle. Truman likewise makes a vital appearance as Mickey in 80 for Brady inverse Rita Moreno, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Sally Field.
Movies
♦ 2024 – Horizon: An American Saga
♦ 2023 – 80 for Brady
♦ 2023 – Rustin
♦ 2023 – Outlaw Johnny Black
♦ 2022 – The Devil You Know
♦ 2020 – The Way Back
♦ 2020 – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
♦ 2019 – Windows on the World
♦ 2019 – Justine
♦ 2019 – Sextuplets
♦ 2018 – Solace
♦ 2018 – Bumblebee
♦ 2016 – Juney Smith’s Black American Film Collection
♦ 2016 – Race
TV Shows
♦ 2024 – The Big Cigar
♦ 2023–24 – Percy Jackson and the Olympians
♦ 2023 – Black Cake
♦ 2022–23 – The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
♦ 2022 – Women of the Movement
♦ 2022 – FBI: Most Wanted
♦ 2022 – Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
♦ 2021–23 – Stillwater
♦ 2020 – Black-ish
♦ 2020 – Close Enough
♦ 2020 – Power Book II: Ghost
♦ 2020 – Fargo
♦ 2019 – Better Things
♦ 2019 – Documentary Now!
♦ 2019 – American Gods
♦ 2019 – The Red Line
♦ 2019 – Claws
♦ 2019 – Mr. Mercedes