Eamonn Walker
Eamonn Walker
Eamonn Walkeris a British film, television and theatre actor. In the United States he is known for playing Kareem Saïd in the HBO television series Oz, for which he won a CableACE Award, as Winston in In Sickness and in Health and John Othello in the 2001 ITV1 production of Othello. Since 2012 he has played Firehouse 51 Battalion Chief Wallace Boden on Chicago Fire and its spinoff Chicago P.D...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth12 June 1962
Eamonn Walker quotes about
wants work
I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.
people throughout
Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose.
characters companies forgotten people plays shakespeare theater themselves wrote
When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was writing plays for people to go and see, to take them on a journey of recognition so that they could see themselves within the characters on the stage. We as actors and theater companies and film companies have forgotten that.