Dorian Crossmond Missick is an American actor known for his role as Damian in the television series '' Six Degrees'' (2006) and for voicing
Victor Vance
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'' (2006) and his supporting roles in films such as ''
The Manchurian Candidate
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'' (2004) and ''
Lucky Number Slevin
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'' (2006).
Early life and education
Missick was born in
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'', November 19, 2006. Accessed January 23, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "On his first real acting job -playing a young Southern fisherman in a 1990 episode of ''In the Heat of the Night'' - Dorian Missick was a fish out of water.... 'That show was shot in Georgia, and I was this kid from New Jersey. I didn't have the accent down,' says Missick, who was born in East Orange and grew up in North Plainfield."
Career
During his first acting class, casting agents were looking for a
Coca-Cola
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commercial, and they decided that Missick was right for the part. He was later cast in a small role on '' In the Heat of the Night'' (1990), playing a young fisherman.
In the summer of 1996, Missick joined the Jazz Actors, a
theater company
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in Harlem, where he studied under Ernie McClintock, whose
jazz
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-influenced style strongly impacted Missick's in turn. After the company dispersed, Missick joined NITE Star, an educational company whose primary focus was to educate young teens on
AIDS
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awareness and building an understanding towards
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. During his time with NITE Star, Missick met actress
Kerry Washington
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(who was also involved with the company) and gained a steady income from commercials, averaging around seven nationals a year.
In 2002, Missick made his professional acting debut in '' Two Weeks Notice'', playing Tony, Hugh Grant's right-hand man/limo driver. His exposure from that role led to parts in TV shows including ''
NYPD Blue
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'', ''
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'', as well as small roles in movies such as '' Undermind'', ''50 Ways to Leave a Lover'', ''A Message from Pops'', '' Freedomland'', and ''Two Guns''. He auditioned for the role of Antwone Quenton 'Fish' Fisher in ''
Antwone Fisher
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''; he was not cast, but his meeting with
Denzel Washington
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later led to a role in ''
The Manchurian Candidate
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The ...
''. Soon after, Missick got a role playing Elvis in ''
Lucky Number Slevin
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'', and soon afterward landed his first leading role in ''
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.
In 2018, he had a recurring role in the second season of the
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and
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series ''
Luke Cage
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Simone Missick
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Simone Missick
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