David Bryan "D.B." Woodside (born July 25, 1969 in Jamaica, Queens, New York) is an American actor, best known for his varied television roles.
After injuring his knee while playing American football for his high school's (Roy C. Ketcham High School) team, Woodside heard the drama club performing a scene from a play and was interested. Since then, Woodside has fallen in love with acting.
Woodside got his start in the second season of Murder One in 1996, playing Aaron Mosley. After that series' cancellation, he guest starred on The Practice, Snoops, The Division and Once and Again. He also appeared in the 2000 film Romeo Must Die as Aaliyah's on-screen brother. In 1998, D.B. played Melvin Franklin, Motown's solid bass singer in The Temptations. He made a guest appearance on JAG in its final season as FBI Agent Rod Benton.
From 2002 to 2003, Woodside guest starred in 14 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's final season, as Principal Robin Wood, Buffy's boss and son of a Slayer. He followed this up in the following television season, playing the pragmatic Wayne Palmer, the Chief of Staff and brother to President David Palmer during the third season of 24. In the fifth season of the series, he returned to reprise the role as a guest star in episodes 1–2 and 14–18. Woodside returned as a series regular for the sixth season as the President of the United States.
He had a guest role as Marlon Waylord in the episode of CSI 'Harvest' in 2004. In 2007, he was a guest star on the hit TV show Grey's Anatomy in that show's 4th season episode, "Forever Young," wherein he played the character of Marcus.
Woodside is a graduate of the University at Albany and the Yale School of Drama. Woodside also taught courses (Black Action Theatre) and acted in several plays including Shakespeare's Hamlet at the University of Iowa in the early 1990s.
External links
D.B. Woodside at the Internet Movie Database
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NAME
Woodside, D.B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
Woodside, David Bryan
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Actor
DATE OF BIRTH
July, 25 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH
New York City, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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Categories: American television actors | African American actors | Yale University alumni | People from Queens | 1969 births | Living people | State University of New York at Albany alumni | New York actors
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