Irone Singleton

IronE Singleton is an actor who became known to audiences for playing Alton, a menacing kingpin, in the Oscar-nominated film The Blind Side (2009), and T-Dog, a compassionate tough guy, in the television series The Walking Dead. Born and raised in Atlanta, he attended the University of Georgia, where he studied theater and speech communications, and he was there on academic and football scholarships. His film credits include Lottery Ticket, with Bow Wow and Ice Cube, and Seeking Justice (2011), in which he acted alongside Nicolas Cage, Guy Pearce and January Jones. He played the leading role of Glock Nichols in An Amish Murder (2013). On television, he appeared in the pilots Detroit 1-8-7, Single Ladies and Franklin & Bash, and in One Tree Hill and Somebodies. Earlier he wrote, directed and performed a one-man stage production, IronE . . . The Resurrected, and later turned it into the autobiography Blindsided by The Walking Dead.