Charles S. Dutton Wiki, Wife, Divorce, Gay and Net Worth

Charles S. Dutton is an American director, film and stage actor born on January 30, 1951, in Baltimore, Maryland to a truck driver father with black ethnicity. 

He is best known for his performances in the films like Rudy's Fortune, in the television sitcom Roc and Alien 3 as Dillon.

Dutton became an actor while helping a seven and a half-year prison sentence for stabbing a man during a street fight. He had an interest in acting while he was joining a two-year college degree course.

Dutton is a drop out of his middle school. He as a nickname Roc has a short-lived period as an amateur boxer. At the age of seventeen, during a fight, his opponent was dead.

Due to the death of the man, he was convicted and charged with manslaughter for which he spent his next seven years in prison.

After being released from prison, Dutton was again arrested and sentenced to three years of imprisonment for the possession of a deadly weapon.

In the meantime, he was sentenced to six days of solitary confinement. Accidently he was handed with an anthology of black playwrights.

He enjoyed the play a lot, and after reading the play, he developed and interest in drama and acting. In the same time, he completed a two-year college program at Hagerstown Junior College situated in Hagerstown, Maryland. From Yale School of Drama, he earned a master degree in acting.

Dutton made his debut in the year 1984 by appearing in the August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. For his performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, he won Theatre World Award and was nominated for Tony Award.

Similarly he appeared in The Murder of Mary Phagan in the year 1988. Then he appeared in The Piano Lesson, which led him to second Best Actor Tony nomination.

In the mean time, he appeared in many movies and tv shows like Roc; a Fox television series, Alien 3, Rudy, Cookie's Fortune, Get on the Bus, Crocodile Dundee II, A Time to Kill, Cry, the Beloved Country, Secret Window and Menace II Society.

For his roles in The Practice and Without a Trace, he won Outstanding Guest Actor Emmy Awards in 2002 and 2003. Similarly, he is awarded different awards.

In the year 2000, he directed the HBO miniseries The Corner and also appeared in Montgomery County, Maryland, D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear, The L Word, Another Toothpick, House M.D, Sleeper Cell: American Terror, Honeydripper, and The Monkey's Paw.

He is a very tall man as he has a great height of 179 cm, which is around five inch and eleven feet. He is very healthy and alive. He was married to actress Debbi Morgan in the year 1989.

There is no any information given to his children. As he had no good relation with his wife, he had a divorce with her in 1994. Currently, there is no any information about his dating and girlfriend.

This doesn’t mean he is a gay or not interested in women. He has a wonderful net worth of $9 million dollars. More about him, his pictures, his family and his biography, can be found in the wiki.

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