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Question: What's the name of the actor who plays the guy in the wheelchair on HBO's Oz? Televisionary: Inmate Augustus Hill is played by thespian Harold Perrineau, Jr. whom you may have caught in a guest stint on ER or alongside Gregory Harrison, the late Madeline Kahn, Mary Tyler Moore and Providence star Melina Kanakaredes on the short-lived CBS drama New York News. You'd have had to be fast to catch him in that last one, though — it was on for little more than a month in 1995. More likely than not, you've seen the Brooklyn native in such big-screen offerings as The Best Man, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet or Smoke. Watch for him next in the upcoming second and third installments of the

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Question: What's the name of the actor who plays the guy in the wheelchair on HBO's Oz?

Televisionary: Inmate Augustus Hill is played by thespian Harold Perrineau, Jr. whom you may have caught in a guest stint on ER or alongside Gregory Harrison, the late Madeline Kahn, Mary Tyler Moore and Providence star Melina Kanakaredes on the short-lived CBS drama New York News. You'd have had to be fast to catch him in that last one, though — it was on for little more than a month in 1995.

More likely than not, you've seen the Brooklyn native in such big-screen offerings as The Best Man, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet or Smoke. Watch for him next in the upcoming second and third installments of the Matrix saga.