Harold Perrineau

American actor

Born

7 August 1963, Brooklyn

Citizenship

United States

Occupation

actor, television actor, film actor, voice actor

Films here

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Harold Perrineau (born August 7, 1963) is an American actor. His breakout role was in the independent film Smoke (1995), for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. He went on to appear as Mercutio in Romeo+Juliet (1996) and Link in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions (both 2003).

On television, he has starred as Augustus Hill in the HBO prison drama Oz (1997–2003), Michael Dawson in the ABC series Lost (2004–2010), and Sheriff Boyd Stevens in the MGM+ horror series From (2022–present).

Perrineau has also appeared in the films The Edge (1997), The Best Man (1999), Woman on Top (2000), and 28 Weeks Later (2007). His other television credits include Sons of Anarchy (2012), Constantine (2014–2015), Claws (2017–2022), and The Rookie (2019–2021).

Filmography (martial arts films)

Frequent collaborators

• Laurence Fishburne
• Carrie-Anne Moss
• Lambert Wilson
• Monica Bellucci
• Jada Pinkett Smith
• Harry Lennix
• Keanu Reeves
• Anthony Zerbe
• Essie Davis
• Collin Chou
• Ian Bliss
• Nona Gaye
• Nathaniel Lees
• Gina Torres
• Helmut Bakaitis
• Genevieve O'Reilly

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q310551 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.