birth_place article_title name occupation
kingston , jamaica basil wallace
 basil wallace actor
basil wallace

basil wallace is a jamaica-born american actor .
he was born in kingston and immigrated to the united states as a child .
he lived in brooklyn , new york city with his parents and siblings .
he and his family then moved to long island .
he attended hempstead high school and he knew for sure that he wanted a life in the theater .
he auditioned for a broadway bound play .
after graduated high school , he entered new york university -lrb- nyu -rrb- .
he attended nyu for two years and while there he got his first off-broadway play and began his life in the theatre .
for the next 20 years he worked as an actor , director and writer in the theater .
with la mama , he was director in residence for a year .
wallace also taught theater aesthetics ' for lincoln center theater for ten years .
he was the director of drama for school district 13 in bronx , and director of mini-mobile theatre for two years .
he was one of the founding members and artistic director for its first year of the caribbean american repertory theatre .
in 1990 , he moved to los angeles and auditioned for the film `` marked for death '' and got the villain role .
he appeared in several films such as `` wedlock '' , `` return of the living dead 3 '' , `` caught up '' , `` joy ride '' and `` blood diamond '' , and guest starred in many television series such as ' , `` born free '' , `` er '' , `` the west wing '' , ' , `` ncis '' , '' '' and `` burn notice '' .
