Sinqua Walls

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Sinqua Walls
Sinqua Walls at MTV Movie Awards 2012.jpg
Walls interviewed at the MTV Movie Awards 2012
Born (1985-04-06) April 6, 1985 (age 39)
Louisiana, U.S.
Education University of San Francisco (BA)
OccupationActor
Years active2007–present

Sinqua Walls (born April 6, 1985) is an American actor known for appearing in Friday Night Lights, The Secret Life of the American Teenager , American Soul, and White Men Can't Jump . [1]

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Early life and education

Originally from Louisiana, Sinqua moved to Marina del Rey, California, with his family and attended El Segundo High School. Walls became interested in acting as a child after watching Radio Flyer. In 2007, he graduated from University of San Francisco, where he studied theatre and film.[ citation needed ] During college, Walls played on the San Francisco Dons men's basketball team. [2]

Career

Walls played Boyd, a beta werewolf who was a formerly recurring character on the MTV drama series Teen Wolf . [3] He has also made appearances on Pair of Kings , Lincoln Heights , Friday Night Lights , Grey's Anatomy , Blue Mountain State , The Secret Life of the American Teenager , Necessary Roughness , [4] and on MTV's Next .

He starred in the 2011 horror feature Shark Night 3D . [5] Walls played a guest role on the second season of the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time , as Sir Lancelot. [6] [3] He returned to the show during the fifth season as a guest star. [7] He played the role of Shawn in the TV series Power . [8] [9] On August 1, 2017, Walls was cast in Clint Eastwood's biopic The 15:17 to Paris , about the thwarted 2015 Thalys train attack. [10] The film premiered on February 9, 2018. [11]

Since 2019, Walls has portrayed Don Cornelius in BET's American Soul , a fictionalized drama series based on Cornelius's long-running television dance show Soul Train . [12]

In 2023, he starred in White Men Can't Jump , a remake of the 1992 film of the same name. [13]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2007Choose ConnorVoter
2009The Second HalfHarlanShort film
2011 From the Head Santos
Shark Night Malik Henry
2014 Believe Me Tyler
2016Past ForwardMan #3Short film
2018 The 15:17 to Paris Marine
2019 Otherhood Matt Walker
2021 Resort to Love Caleb King
2022 Nanny Malik
Alice Joseph
The Blackening Nnamdi
Mending the Line John Colter
2023 White Men Can't Jump Kamal Allen
2024 Carry-On Jason Noble

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2007 Lincoln Heights Desmond2 episodes
2008 Chuck StudentEpisode: "Chuck Versus the Ex"
2008 Friday Night Lights Jamarcus Hall9 episodes
2010–2012 Pair of Kings Pierce4 episodes
2010 Grey's Anatomy Tom KatesEpisode: "Blink"
2010 Blue Mountain State Batman Barstow2 episodes
2010Savage CountryNoahTelevision film
2011 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Paramedic Sam RillEpisode: "CSI Down"
2011–2012 The Secret Life of the American Teenager Daniel13 episodes
20122015 Once Upon a Time Sir Lancelot 6 episodes
2012–2013 Teen Wolf Vernon Boyd15 episodes
2013 Necessary Roughness Devon LangerEpisode: "Swimming with Sharks"
20142015 Power Shawn18 episodes
2017 The Breaks Terrance "Lil Ray" BaltimoreMain role (season 1)
2017 Tales MarcusEpisode 7
2019–2020 American Soul Don Cornelius Main role

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