Life and career
Truvillion was born in Queens, New York and grew up in Flushing and graduated from Bayside High School. He began his career as a runway and print model for Ford Models, and while modeling, Truvillion studied acting. [2] In 2001 he made his professional acting debut in the off-Broadway musical Oya receiving AUDELCO Award for Outstanding Performance in a Musical. [3] He played minor roles in films Paid in Full (2002), Death of a Dynasty (2003) and Hitch (2005), and guest-starred on television series Third Watch and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . In 2006, he received his first major role on the ABC daytime soap opera, One Life to Live , playing Vincent Jones. He left the soap in 2008. [2] Since leaving soap, Truvillion began appearing in film and prime time television playing guest starring roles on Law & Order: Criminal Intent , Blue Bloods , White Collar and Person of Interest . In 2010 he returned to off-Broadway starring in Black Angels Over Tuskegee by Layon Gray. [4]
In 2015, Truvillion had recurring role in the Starz miniseries, Flesh and Bone and from 2016 to 2017 had a recurring role as Derek "D-Major" Major in the Fox musical series, Empire . [5] [6] In 2018 he starred in the short-lived BET legal drama series, In Contempt . [7] The following year he played his first leading role in the made-for-television movie Holiday Heist. [8]
From 2019 to 2022, Truvillion had recurring role in the BET+ comedy-drama series, First Wives Club . In 2020 he played another leading role in the crime drama film Equal Standard , [9] [10] and had recurring role during the first season of BET comedy-drama Sistas . In 2021 he starred alongside Keri Hilson in the Lifetime movie Lust: A Seven Deadly Sins Story [11] and later guest-starred on New Amsterdam , Queens , The Resident , FBI and The Best Man: The Final Chapters . [12] In 2022, Truvillion played the lead in the action thriller film, Sanctioning Evil . [13] In 2023 he starred in the drama film Aurora: A Love Story, the action thriller Call Her King , the crime thriller Sisters, and the biographical crime drama First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story directed by Vivica A. Fox. [14] [15] [16] He starred opposite Jessica Care Moore in the drama film He Looked like a Postcard directed by Qasim Basir. [17]
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