Vondie Curtis-Hall

Vondie Curtis-Hall is an American actor and director who works across film and television. He began as a stage actor and was in the original Broadway cast of the musical Dreamgirls, where he originated the role of Marty, the original manager of James Thunder Early. On screen he is best known as Dr. Dennis Hancock on the CBS medical drama Chicago Hope and as Ben Urich in the Netflix series Daredevil. As a director he wrote and directed the cult film Gridlock'd in 1997 and later directed the features Glitter and Waist Deep, the television films Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story and Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart, and episodes of The Shield, Firefly and Chicago Hope. He is also a full-time arts professor at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.