Gary Dourdan
Biography
Gary Dourdan is an American actor. He played in bands and acted in regional theater in the New York area in the early 1990s, and Debbie Allen gave him the part of Shazza Zulu on A Different World after seeing a tape of his avant-garde stage work. He appeared in the 1996 Lois & Clark episode Never on Sunday, then played Christie in Alien: Resurrection (1997), with roles in Playing God (1997) and Thursday (1998). He also starred in Swift Justice and had a recurring part on Soul Food. He played Cameron in Perfect Stranger (2007). His best-known part was Warrick Brown, the gambling-plagued analyst on CSI, which began in 2000. After his contract was not renewed, he took recurring roles on Christine and Being Mary Jane. Dourdan, also an alternative musician and record producer, played Mickey Monroe in Righteous Villains and made his Broadway debut as Hades in Hadestown in 2026.
59years old
Turns 60 on December 11in 57 days
- Born Philadelphia
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
- Also credited as Gary Robert Durdin
Movie Career
- Films
- 12
- Career span
- 32 years1993 to 2025
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Big break
After seeing a tape of Dourdan in an avant-garde play, Debbie Allen gave him the role of Shazza Zulu on A Different World.
A change of course
In the early 1990s, Dourdan performed with several bands in New York City and also acted in regional theater in the New York metropolitan area.
Beyond film
Dourdan sang with Macy Gray at the 2005 Emmy Awards. He also went onstage with DMC, the hip-hop artist from Run-D.M.C., at the Live 8 concert held in Barrie, Ontario.
Gary Dourdan movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Hicham Hajji directed two of these films. Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Hicham HajjiDirector, 2 films, 2021 to 2025
All films by Hicham Hajji
Box office
What Gary Dourdan's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$306 million
8 of the 12 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 12 films: 8 worldwide figure; 3 figure not found; 1 too new to count.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 3Figure not found
- 1Too new to count
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$162M52.9% of the total
- 2$73M23.9% of the total
- 3$38M12.3% of the total
- 4$13M4.2% of the total
- 5$8.7M2.8% of the total
- 6$8.1M2.6% of the total
- 7$4.2M1.4% of the total
- 8$3K0.0% of the total
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