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Cleavant Derricks is best known as a star of the television series Sliders and should not be confused with the prolific songwriter Cleavant Derricks.
Cleavant Derricks was born May 15, 1953 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America. He has a twin brother Clinton Derricks-Carroll. As an actor, singer and composer he began his career as a Nashville gospel songwriter. Along with his father he wrote the gospel album Satisfaction Guaranteed. As time went by Derricks went to New York City to study acting with Vinette Carrol at the Urban Arts Theatre. He received rave reviews for his performance in her Broadway shows, including But Never Jam Today. He also won a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for creating the role of James Thunder Early in Dreamgirls. He also starred in the Broadway musical Brooklyn as the Streetsinger.
Soon after this Derricks began to get film roles such as Moscow on the Hudson, Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife and recently, Wes Craven's Carnival of Souls. Cleavant Derricks has also starred as a series regular on the television series Thea with Brandy, Good Sports with Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal and Sliders with Jerry O'Connell and John Rhys-Davies, as Rembrandt Brown, also known as the Crying Man. Cleavant Derricks is the only original slider to stick it out for the entire series. In addition, Derricks has had numerous guest starring role in series such as Roseanne, A Different World, Miami Vice, Spencer for Hire and many others.
Music
Cleavant Derricks won his Tony Award for Featured Actor -- Musical for Dreamgirls. He was the musical director and composer for When Hell Freezes Over I'll Skate.
Albums
- Beginnings - Released December 4, 1999
- Dreamgirls (1982 Original Broadway Cast) - Released October 25, 1990
Filmography
For television series the years shown are the years Cleavant Derricks starred or guest starred.
- The Bernie Mac Show (2002) as Willie
- World Traveler (2001) as Carl
- The Practice (2001) as Mr. Lees
- 18 Wheels of Justice (2000) as Harold Baines
- Charmed (2000) as Cleavant Wilson
- Touched by an Angel (1999) as Robert
- Wes Craven's Carnival of Souls (1998) as Sid
- Sliders (1995 - 2000) as Rembrandt 'Cryin' Man' Brown
- Something Wilder (1994 - 1995) as Caleb
- Thea (1993 - 1994) as Charles
- Woops! (1992)
- Drexel's Class (1991 - 1992) as George Foster
- Good Sports (1991) as Jeff Mussberger
- Sibs (1991)
- L.A. Law (1991) as Mark Wright
- A Different World (1991) as Larry
- Roseanne (1989)
- Moonlighting (1987) as Leonard Haven
- Spencer for Hire (1987) as Mac Dickerson
- Bluffing It (1987) as Cal
- Mickey and Nora (1987) as Marvin
- The Equalizer (1986) as Sonny Raines
- Off Beat (1986) as Abe Washington
- Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife (1985) as Manny Alvarado
- Miami Vice (1985) as David Jones
- Moscow on the Hudson (1984) as Lionel Witherspoon, Bloomingdales Security Officer
- The Ambush Murders (1982)
- Fort Apache the Bronx (1981) as Suspect #4
- When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate (1979)
- Cindy (1978) as Michael Simpson
External links
- Cleavant Derricks Official site of Cleavant Derricks
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