Karim Dulé Hill (born May 3, 1975) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actor. He's best known for his roles as Josiah Bartlet's personal presidential aide (body man) Charlie Young on the critically-acclaimed television series The West Wing and as Burton "Gus" Guster in the television comedy-drama Psych. He also has a role in Holes as Sam.
Hill was born in East Brunswick, New Jersey to Jamaican parents, and raised in Sayreville, New Jersey. He studied tap dance from an early age, and performed in the musical The Tap Dance Kid as Savion Glover's understudy. His first film role, in Sugar Hill, came in 1993 during his senior year of high school. Hill graduated from Sayreville War Memorial High School, in Sayreville, New Jersey, in 1993.
During his time at Seton Hall University, he was cast in a starring role in Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk on Broadway.
Hill married actress Nicole Lyn on July 10, 2004.
In 1999, Hill was cast on The West Wing as Charlie Young, aide to President Josiah Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen). Hill starred as Charlie for six seasons before he chose to leave the show at the beginning of the seventh season (September 2005) to star in the pilot for the new television show Psych for the USA Network, which premiered July 7, 2006. However, when the announcement was made the The West Wing would be ending in May 2006, Hill returned for the show's last episodes.
Hill also had roles in She's All That in 1999 starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Rachel Leigh Cook, as a Los Angeles doctor named Owen in the movie and series 10.5, and the Disney movie Holes as Sam the Onion Man, and The Guardian.
