Sean Patrick Thomas Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television or Mini-Series Performance by a Male in 2013 for "Murder on the 13th Floor․"
• Graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1995 with his master's degree in drama
• Planned to be a lawyer, but while studying at the University of Virginia, he successfully auditioned for a part in a school production of "A Raisin in the Sun" and changed his goal in life to becoming an actor
• The role that first won him significant notice by teenage audiences was as the male lead in the teen romance "Save the Last Dance․"
• Is best known for playing Detective Temple Page in the crime drama "The District․"
• Some of the actors he looks up to are Andre Braugher, Joe Morton, Denzel Washington, Lynne Thigpen, Anthony Hopkins, Sidney Poitier and Alfre Woodard
• Didn't have any dance experience when he tried out for "Save the Last Dance" and had less than a day to learn his choreography for the final audition