Erik Dellums

Erik Todd Dellums (born 1964) is a U.S. actor.

He has had parts in television police dramas such as "New York Undercover", "" and "The Wire". He was featured on "Homicide" in a multi-season recurring role as fictional drug kingpin Luther Mahoney; on "The Wire" he plays a medical examiner.

Early in his career he had minor appearances in several Spike Lee films, such as "She's Gotta Have It" and "Do the Right Thing". He was portrayed (as a child) by Travis Kyle Davis in the Disney Channel Original Movie, "The Color of Friendship" which was based on what happened when his family hosted a foreign exchange student from South Africa during the Apartheid era. (He also had a cameo in this movie playing one of Congressman Dellums' aides.) In addition, he provided the voice acting for the character "" in the animated Nickelodeon series "", as well as the narration for "Key Constitutional Concepts", a documentary produced in 2006 by the Annenberg Foundation.

Dellums is the son of the mayor of Oakland and the former U.S. Representative from California Ron Dellums.

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