![]() He appeared as a Special Forces Operative in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises (2012). During the summer of 2007, he also starred in the ESPN miniseries The Bronx is Burning as Reggie Jackson. He starred as firefighter Franco Rivera on the television program Rescue Me. He portrayed poet Langston Hughes in the film Brother to Brother (2004) and James Holt, a fashion designer, in The Devil Wears Prada (2006). Sunjata played the role of a sailor on shore leave on the first post-9/11 themed episode of Sex and the City. He is of African, German, and Irish descent. After attending Florida A&M University, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a Master of Fine Arts from the Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He graduated from Mount Carmel High School in Chicago, where he played linebacker for two state championship football teams. He is named in honor of the Mandinka king Sundiata Keita, founder of the Mali Empire the name means "hungry lion." He was told his biological mother was a white teenager who had run away from home and his father was African-American. His adoptive parents are of Irish and Italian-German descent. He is the adopted son of Bill and Catherine Condon a police dispatcher and a civil rights worker. Sunjata was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago.
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