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Charles S. Dutton: Biography
Charles S. Dutton won an Emmy Award in 2002 for his guest role in "The Practice" and one in 2003 for
his guest role in "Without a Trace," on CBS. He has received Tony nominations for "The Piano Lesson" and "Ma Rainey's Black
Bottom." He also received an NAACP Image Award in 2003 for "DC Sniper" and a 1993 Image Award nomination and a 1994 award
for "Roc," for which he also served as executive producer.
Dutton earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Towson State
University and was active in theater in Baltimore, appearing in "The Blacks," "The Great White Hope," "Of Mice and Men," "Detective
Story" and the world premiere of Eugene Ionesco's "Man With Bags." Later, he was accepted to the Yale Drama School, where
he appeared in "Othello," "King Lear" and "Baal." At Yale, he began working with playwright August Wilson and director Lloyd
Richards, who became friends and mentors.
After graduation, Dutton moved to New York where his relationships with Wilson
and Richards led to work with the Yale Repertory Theatre. He made his Broadway debut in Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
He also appeared in Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" and starred in Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Piano Lesson."
Dutton's
feature film credits include "Against the Ropes," "Get on the Bus," "Mimic," "Crocodile Dundee II," "A Time to Kill," "Mississippi
Masala," "Alien 3," "The Distinguished Gentleman," "Menace II Society," "Rudy," "Surviving the Game," "A Low Down Dirty Shame,"
"Cry, The Beloved Country," "D-Tox," "Random Hearts," "Cookie's Fortune" and "Secret Window."
On television, Dutton
starred in the Emmy Award-winning "Something the Lord Made." He also starred with Jack Lemmon in the Emmy Award-winning mini-series
"The Murder of Mary Phagan." He appeared in the mini-series "The '60s," "For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story,"
"Deadlocked," "The Piano Lesson" and the television movies "Zooman," "10,000 Black Men Named George" and "DC Sniper: 23 Days
of Fear." Dutton has also made guest appearances in the series "The L Word," "Ed," "The Sopranos" and "Homicide: Life on the
Street."
He directed the feature film "Against The Ropes," starring Meg Ryan, Omar Epps and Tim Daly, the mini-series
"The Corner" and the television movie "First Time Felon." He also served as an executive producer on the limited series "Laurel
Avenue."
Dutton lives near his native Baltimore. His birth date is January 30.
"J.T. Baylock"
J.T. Baylock is the Deputy National Security Advisor who acts as the government's supervisor and liason to the Threshold
Red Team. He is intense, tough, gruff, and occasionally threatening in keeping the more reluctant Threshold members
on-track, but has frequently shown a softer side (in advising Pegg on balancing his secret work with his personal life, and
in helping Molly deal with the pressure of her position and the weight of the consequences of her decisions). He
was close to his late boss, NSA Hatten, and had been on-track to move into the NSA position prior to the alien incident and
the creation of the Red Team. He says virtually nothing about his private life but we know he lost a son to drug
abuse prior to his work on the Threshold project.
Links:
CBS Cast Page
IMDB link
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