| Awards: |
- Image Awards
- 2007 Nominated Image Award Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2000)
- 2006 Won Image Award Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2000)
- 2005 Nominated Image Award Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2000)
- 2004 Nominated Image Award Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2000)
- 2003 Won Image Award Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2000)
- Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 2005 Won Actor Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2000)
Shared with: George Eads, Jorja Fox, Paul Guilfoyle, Robert David Hall, Marg Helgenberger, William Petersen, Eric Szmanda
- 2004 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2000)
Shared with: George Eads, Jorja Fox, Paul Guilfoyle, Robert David Hall, Marg Helgenberger, William Petersen, Eric Szmanda
- 2003 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2000)
Shared with: George Eads, Jorja Fox, Paul Guilfoyle, Robert David Hall, Marg Helgenberger, William Petersen, Eric Szmanda
- 2002 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2000)
Shared with: George Eads, Jorja Fox, Paul Guilfoyle, Robert David Hall, Marg Helgenberger, William Petersen, Eric Szmanda
- Seattle International Film Festival
- 2000 Won New American Cinema Award Citation of Excellence for Ensemble Cast Performance for: The Weekend (1999)
Shared with: Deborah Kara Unger, D.B. Sweeney, Gena Rowlands, Brooke Shields, David Conrad, James Duval, Jared Harris
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| Fast Facts: |
- Was a model in the 1980’s and 1990’s for Boss Models in New York City.
- He is an African-American actor of Haitian descent
- Uncle plays saxophone for Sister Sledge.
- In 1973, his older brother Daryl was murdered while vacationing in Haiti. The case is still unsolved.
- Plays guitar, piano, bass, drums and saxophone.
- Named one of TV’s Sexiest Men in TV GUIDE in 2005.
- Sang, with Macy Gray, the theme song to The Jeffersons, "Movin’ On Up," at the 2005 Emmys.
- Gary once worked as a bartender in New York.
- He has a daughter Nyla and a son Lyric.
- Has a music studio in Venice Beach.
- Gary graduated from a local performing arts high school the renowned Freedom Theatre in Philadelphia, Pa.
- Gary has a hip-hop music group called Smoky Mirrors.
- Gary Dourdan admits he "raised an eyebrow" after hearing that his character Warrick Brown in CSI would come back married for the shows 6 season.
- After high school, he spent his time wandering from city to city playing music in clubs and developing a quite nasty addiction to both alcohol and drugs. When he was held up by a drug fiend and realized he’d be ashamed to die at that moment, having done nothing with his life, he finally decided it was time to snap out of it. He got out of music, quit drinking and drugs, and started pursuing a career in acting and modeling instead.
- He has a production company called Temple of Thoughts.
- Gary moved to New York City and worked as a doorman at a rehearsal studio where he met some of Manhattan’s promising young artists.
- Gary’s height is 6′2"
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| Quotes: |
- I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
- One thing I’m trying to do with my career and with my craft is to blur the lines between what people think African-Americans should play, and what I am doing.
- Looks are good, but the only thing constant in life is change and I just had to renew.
- I was really connected to my brother. So everything I do now, be it my acting or my music, is always in honour of him.
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