Chad Coleman

Chad Coleman Biography

Chad William Coleman is an American film and television actor. He is best known for playing the character Dennis "Cutty" Wise from The Wire, and Tyreese in The Walking Dead.

Life and career

Coleman was raised in a foster home in Richmond, Virginia. As a youth he participated in track and field, but turned his attention to studying drama after a leg injury. Before becoming an actor, Coleman served in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989 as a video cameraman.

He had a starring role on the HBO series The Wire as reformed criminal Dennis "Cutty" Wise. In 2002, Coleman starred as O.J. Simpson in TNT's television movie Monday Night Mayhem. Chad also had a guest role in the Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles TV series on Fox. He also had a small role in Carlito's Way: Rise to Power. He has recently been involved in the development of Left 4 Dead 2 as voice actor for the character Coach. In 2009, Coleman appeared in a revival of August Wilson's play Joe Turner's Come and Gone on Broadway and also had a starring role in the Norwegian TV series Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion?, based on the novel by Johan Harstad. The series aired in Europe in November 2011.

He guest starred in the In Plain Sight episode "Whistle Stop" as an ex-boxer/witness suffering from pugilistic dementia, and in the Lie to Me episode "The Canary's Song" as a coal miner. He was also a guest star in two episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in 2010.

In 2011, he landed the role of Gary Miller, the ex-husband of Nikki Miller and father of manipulative daughter Mackenzie in the Fox television sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter, which debuted in the fall of 2011.

He currently plays the character of Tyreese on AMC's The Walking Dead.

Chad Coleman was married to actress Sally Stewart in 1999. They divorced in 2010 and have one daughter together.

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	New York Cop	Iceman
1999	Saturn	Orderly
2001	The Gilded Six Bits		Short
2001	Revolution #9	Night Nurse
2002	Monday Night Mayhem	O.J. Simpson
2002	The End of The Bar	Dr. Scott Rosen
2004	Brother to Brother	El
2005	Carlito's Way: Rise To Power	Clyde
2007	Wifey	Parnell
2009	Boldly Going Nowhere	Cobolt
2011	The Green Hornet	Chili
2011	Horrible Bosses	Curtis
???	Shoedog	Issac (Pre Production)

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Here and Now	Roland	1 episode
1994, 1995	Law & Order	Henry/Weiner	2 episodes: "Golden Years" (season 4: episode 11) "Paranoia" (season 6: episode 6)
1994, 1996	New York Undercover	Kevin Gray/Shoop	2 episodes: "To Protect and Serve" (season 1: episode 4) "Andre's Choice" (season 2: episode 23)
1999, 2001	Third Watch	Grissom/Lamar	2 episodes: "Patterns" (season 1: episode 3) "The Relay" (season 3: episode 4)
2003	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Prison Warden	1 episode
	The Guiding Light	Moses	1 episode
	Hack	Lafonso	2 episodes: "Out of the Ashes" (season 2: episode 5) "To Have and Have Not" (season 2: episode 9)
2004"08	The Wire	Dennis "Cutty" Wise	26 episodes
2005	Numb3rs	Williams	1 episode
2008	New Amsterdam	Lt. Bobby Graham	1 episode
2008	Life on Mars	Suede	1 episode
2009	CSI: Miami	Kevin Landau	1 episode
	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles	Queeg	2 episodes: "Today Is the Day: Part 1" (season 2: episode 18) "Today Is the Day: Part 2" (season 2: episode 19)
	The Forgotten	Ray Perkins	1 episode
2010	In Plain Sight	Ricky Dupree/Dumont	1 episode
	Lie To Me	Darryl	1 episode
	The Good Wife	Carter Wright	1 episode
2010-2013	It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia	Z	3 episodes: "Charlie Kelly: King Of The Rats" (season 6: episode 10) "Dee Gives Birth" (season 6: episode 12) "The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award" (season 9: episode 3)
2011"13	I Hate My Teenage Daughter	Gary	Main role, 13 episodes
2012	Electric City	Manny	1 episode
	Criminal Minds	Malcolm Ford	1 episode
	Burn Notice	Brady Pressman	1 episode
2012"present	The Walking Dead	Tyreese	Season 3 (recurring; 5 episodes) Season 4-present (series regular)

Video Games
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Left 4 Dead 2	Coach	Valve Software

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