Glynn Turman

**Glynn Turman** (born January 31, 1947) is a distinguished American actor, director, writer, and producer. His acting career began in the limelight as a child actor in the original 1959 Broadway production of *A Raisin in the Sun*. Turman took on various noteworthy roles - Lew Miles on the prime-time soap opera *Peyton Place* (1968–1969), high school student Leroy "Preach" Jackson in the 1975 coming-of-age film *Cooley High*, math professor and retired Army colonel Bradford Taylor on the NBC sitcom *A Different World* (1988–1993), and Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series *The Wire*. His exceptional performance on the HBO drama series *In Treatment* fetched him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. Moreover, he had displayed his exemplary talent in the Showtime series *House of Lies* as Jeremiah Kaan, Doctor Senator in the fourth season of the FX black comedy crime drama series *Fargo*, and starred in the 2020 Netflix film *Ma Rainey's Black Bottom*. His film career started in the 1970s and includes works like *Five on the Black Hand Side* (1973), *Thomasine & Bushrod* (1974), *Cooley High* (1975), *The River Niger* (1976), and many more. His life was not confined to acting and directing alone, Turman has too produced a one-man show, *Movin' Man*, about his life.