Background
Sunjata was born and grew up in Chicago, the adopted son of Bill and Catherine Condon, a police dispatcher and a civil rights worker
Sunjata was born and grew up in Chicago, the adopted son of Bill and Catherine Condon, a police dispatcher and a civil rights worker
Sunjata graduated from Mount Carmel High School in Chicago, where he played linebacker for two state championship football teams. He completed his undergraduate studies at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
He is best known for his role as Franco Rivera in the Forex television series Rescue Maine. Sunjata also starred as Paul Briggs in United States of America Network"s series Graceland. He received a master"s degree in fine arts from the Graduate Acting Program at New York University"s Tisch School of the Arts.
Sunjata played the role of a sailor on shore leave on the first post-9/11 themed episode of Sex and The City.
He has portrayed Langston Hughes in the film Brother to Brother and James Holt, a fashion designer in The Devil Wears Prada. He starred as firefighter Franco Rivera on the television program Rescue Maine.
During the summer of 2007, he also starred in the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network miniseries The Bronx is Burning as Reggie Jackson. He appeared as a Special Forces Operative in Christopher Nolan"s The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
On April 30, 2009, Sunjata announced his participation as narrator in Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup, which was the last in a series of documentaries, collectively known as Loose Change, that argue that the September 11 attacks were planned by the United States government.
Sunjata has stated that he believes "absolutely, 100 percent" in this theory. Producers of Rescue Maine, inspired by Sunjata"s views, created a subplot of the show that year (the show"s fifth season) in which Sunjata"s character, Franco Rivera, stirs up controversy in the firehouse when he announces these same views to a journalist.