Dwayne Adway

Dwayne Adway is an actor from Michigan who came to the craft by accident. He won a basketball scholarship to Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University and later began graduate work at Georgia State, where an acting class turned him toward a Master of Fine Arts. While in Atlanta he performed at the Alliance Theater in productions including MacBeth, Othello and Dutchman and The Slave, and he took early screen roles in the independent film Midnight Edition and the CBS movie Complex of Fear. His breakthrough was the role of Dennis Rodman in ABC's Bad As I Wanna Be; The Dennis Rodman Story, which drew critical praise. His films include Into the Blue (2005), First Daughter (2004) and Soul Plane, along with Hydra (2009) on Syfy. He had a recurring part on Close to Home and guest roles on CSI, NYPD Blue, Girlfriends, ER and Arli$$, and later formed the production company Amethyst Entertainment and did voice-over work.