Harold Perrineau Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a World Music and Independent Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Short Film for "The Championship Rounds" in 2013
• While attending Shenandoah Conservatory, he studied music and theater
• In 2002 he married actress and model Brittany Robinson, who appeared in season one of "Lost" as a brief character
• Appeared in the 1989 production of "Fame: The Musical" as Tyrone Jackson, which was the world premiere of the stage adaptation of the popular movie
• Made his screen acting debut in the TV series "Fame" in 1986
• Stared working on a music career after releasing the single "Stay Strong" in 2007, releasing his second "Moving On" in 2011
• Best known for his role as Jack in "Zero Dark Thirty," as Michael Dawson in "Lost," and as Augustus Hill in "Oz․"
• His character Michael on "Lost" was temporarily written off the series after season two finished, but he returned in the fourth season and made an appearance in the sixth and final season
• Since his parents never married, he grew up using both their last names, until settling on his mother's last name of Perrineau since there was already a Harold Williams in the Screen Actors Guild