Samuel Oluwaseyi Adegoke is a Nigerian-American actor known for playing

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in the ''Dynasty'' reboot series.

Personal life

Adegoke was born in

Lagos, Nigeria Lagos (Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national capital of Nigeria until December 1991 fo ...

, but raised in

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and St. Paul, Minnesota. His parents were missionary ministers and came to the United States when he was a young child. He is the youngest of seven children. Adegoke studied marketing and finance at the

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, and was president of the Black Student Union, vice-president in his fraternity, and served in student government. In 2015, after a two-week nationwide search that garnered more than 7,000 submissions, Adegoke was named the winner of the third annual ABC Discovers: Digital Talent Competition. Adegoke lives in Los Angeles.

Career

On January 30, 2017, Adegoke was cast as a lead in the Lifetime biopic '' Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland'' playing Michael Jackson's bodyguard Javon Beard. Adegoke also recurred on '' Murder in the First'' and had guest spots on '' Code Black'' and '' NCIS: Los Angeles''. In February 2017, he was cast as

in a ''Dynasty'' reboot for

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, which premiered in October 2017.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Adegoke, Sam Living people Actors from Minnesota American people of Nigerian descent People from Lagos Year of birth missing (living people) American film actors American television actors