Rockmond Dunbar

Rockmond Dunbar is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Benjamin Miles "C-Note" Franklin in Prison Break, Kenny Chadway in Soul Food, and Michael Grant in 9-1-1.

Life and early years

He was born on January 11, 1973 in California and grew up in Oakland. After graduating from Oakland Technical High School, he studied at Morehouse College in Atlanta for a year, then continued his education at the University of New Mexico. He started acting in the early 1990s; One of his first television jobs was the science fiction series Earth 2, which aired in 1994-1995.

Career

He gained recognition playing Kenny Chadway on Showtime's family drama Soul Food from 2000 to 2004. In 2005, he starred in Fox's Prison Break as C-Note, an inmate involved in a Fox River prison escape plan; He reprized the same character in the show's return with its fifth season in 2017. In 2010, he played detective Mark Gustafson in FX's one-season series Terriers.

He played the roles of sheriff Eli Roosevelt in Sons of Anarchy and FBI agent Dennis Abbott in The Mentalist. In 2018, he joined the cast of Fox's emergency drama 9-1-1 as Michael Grant and will remain on the series until 2021. In the cinema, he starred in films such as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), The Family That Preys (2008) and City of Lies (2018).

In 2025, he played police chief Wilson in Tyler Perry's Netflix movie Straw; The film became one of the fastest-watched productions of the platform that year.

In his career spanning over thirty years, Dunbar has become one of the familiar faces of American television, especially with his supporting roles in drama and crime series.