Donnell Turner Donnell Turner is an actor and model who appeared as a Kantare in the first season episode . According to the call sheet , he filmed his scenes on Monday , on Paramount Stage 9 . Turner is best known for his role as Curtis Ashford in the daily soap " General Hospital " on which he has been working since 2015 along with Lisa LoCicero and Sean Blakemore . Turner was born in Tacoma , Washington but relocated to Chicago at very early age . Later , his mother , his brother and Turner moved to Redding , California , where he played briefly semi - professional basketball . In 2001 , Tuner moved to Los Angels to pursue his acting career and made first appearances in commercials for Disney , Bud Light , Coca - Cola , Pepsi , and Nike . Due to his background and training in martial arts , he found himself working as stunt double for Eriq La Salle in " ER " , in " Rent " , and in " Criminal Minds " . On " Criminal Minds " , Donnell also worked as production assistant for several years and appeared on - screen in featured parts in 2006 and 2007 , working with Ethan Phillips , Irene Roseen , and Keith Carradine . He also had recurring roles on the daily soaps " Days of Our Lives " ( 2009 - 2010 , with Renée Jones and John Aniston ) and " The Young and the Restless " ( 2015 , with J . Paul Boehmer ) . Among his earlier projects are a number of short and independent productions such as " Wednesday Afternoon " ( 2004 ) , " Diamond Real Estate " ( 2006 , with Lynne Burnett ) , " Grave Situations " ( 2007 ) , " Alternative " ( 2008 , with Zadrina ) , " A Fish Needs a Bicycle " ( 2009 ) , " A Worthy Gentleman " ( 2010 , with Josh Cruze and Joseph Jagatic ) , and the television drama " The Boulevard " ( 2011 , with Joseph Jagatic ) . Turner guest starred in episodes of " 2 Broke Girls " ( 2012 ) , " Baby Daddy " ( 2012 , with Tahj D . Mowry ) , " Parks and Recreation " ( 2012 , with Adam Scott and Jim O ' Heir ) , " 90210 " ( 2012 ) , " CSI : Crime Scene Investigation " ( 2013 , with Wallace Langham ) , " Anger Management " ( 2013 , with Ron Ostrow ) , " Save Me " ( 2013 , with Diedrich Bader ) , " Teen Wolf " ( 2013 ) , " Dexter " ( 2013 , with Derek Graf ) , " The Mindy Project " ( 2013 ) , " Revenge " ( 2013 ) , " Love That Girl ! " ( 2014 ) , " Friends with Better Lives " ( 2014 ) , " Bad Judge " ( 2014 ) , " How to Get Away with Murder " ( 2014 , with Billy Brown and Van Epperson ) , " Stitchers " ( 2015 , with Salli Richardson - Whitfield and Baron Jay ) , " Rizzoli & Isles " ( 2015 , with Bruce McGill , Andy Milder , and James Black ) , " Kevin from Work " ( 2015 , with Brian George ) , and " Jane the Virgin " ( 2016 ) . Other projects include the television drama " Social Nightmare " ( 2013 , with Tim Russ and Keith Allan ) , the drama " Baseball ' s Last Hero : 21 Clemente Stories " ( 2013 , with Ryan T . Husk ) , and the short drama " Suffocated " ( 2014 ) . More recent projects are the drama " A Million Happy Nows " ( 2017 , with Dendrie Taylor , Dan Gauthier , and Michael Corbett ) , the thriller " Love Interrupted " ( 2017 ) , the drama " Time in Between " ( 2017 ) , and the drama " The Choir Director " ( 2018 , with James Black ) . He also completed his directorial debut , the crime comedy " Around the Bed " ( 2018 ) on which he also worked as associate producer and actor along with Brandon Stacy , Sharon Schaffer , and Andray Johnson .