Brian J. White

Brian Joseph White is an American actor, dancer, football player, lacrosse player, stock broker and youth activist. Brian Joseph White was born near Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Estelle , a financial advisor, and Jo Jo White, a basketball player for the Boston Celtics, sports executive, and restaurateur. He is the eldest of six children. White attended Newton South High School and was a graduate of Dartmouth College, where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He married his wife Paula Da Silva in 2010. They reside in Los Angeles, California. White began acting on the small... screen, appearing in a number of television series such as Moesha, The Parkers, MTV's Spyder Games, UPN's comedy Second Time Around and most notably, as Detective Tavon Garris on the award-winning FX crime drama, The Shield. White moved to film roles. Some of his more notable ones were in Tom Bezucha's The Family Stone, opposite an all-star cast, Rian Johnson's Independent Spirit Award-nominated film, Brick and as Sylvester, the leader of the Theta Nu Theta fraternity in the musical-drama Stomp the Yard.
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