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Cleavant Derricks (actor)
Cleavant Derricks, Jr. (born May 15, 1953) is an American actor and Tony Award winning singer-songwriter, who is best known for his role of Rembrandt Brown on ''Sliders''.
==Biography==
Derricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee to a pianist mother and Baptist preacher/composer Cleavant Derricks, Sr. His twin brother is actor and musician Clinton Derricks-Carroll. Derricks began his career as a Nashville gospel songwriter. With his father, he wrote the gospel album ''Satisfaction Guaranteed''. He was the musical director and composer for the musical ''When Hell Freezes Over I'll Skate''.
Derricks went to New York City to study acting with Vinnette Carroll at the Urban Arts Theatre. He received rave reviews for his performance in her Broadway shows, including ''But Never Jam Today''. He also won a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for creating the role of James "Thunder" Early in ''Dreamgirls''. Off-Broadway he was in the William Finn musical ''Romance in Hard Times'' in 1989.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BSC Announces the 20th Anniversary 2014 Season )〕 He also starred in the Broadway musical ''Brooklyn'' as the Streetsinger.
Soon afterwards, Derricks appeared in films such as ''Moscow on the Hudson'', Neil Simon's ''The Slugger's Wife'' and recently, Wes Craven's ''Carnival of Souls''. He was a series regular on the television series ''Thea'' with Thea Vidale and Brandy, and ''Good Sports'' with Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal. His role as Rembrandt Brown (known as the Crying Man) on ''Sliders'' with Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd and John Rhys-Davies is notable because Derricks is the only original ''Sliders'' actor to appear throughout the entire series. In addition, Derricks has had numerous guest-starring roles in series such as ''Roseanne'', ''A Different World'', ''Miami Vice'', ''Spenser: For Hire'', ''Charmed'' and many others.
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