--- name: "Gary Dourdan" canonical: "https://film.one/person/gary-dourdan" roles: ["Actor"] born: "11 December 1966" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-19T16:02:30.498824+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Gary Dourdan Actor. Born 11 December 1966 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 11 December 1966, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - **Also known as:** Gary Robert Durdin, Robert Gary Durdin - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Dourdan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355038, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0235427/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/40276 ## Biography Gary Dourdan (born Gary Robert Durdin) is an American actor. He was born on 11 December 1966 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dourdan began his career in music and regional theatre in the New York area before appearing in music videos and guest roles on television. He played Shazza Zulu on the series *A Different World* and made his feature-film debut in the early 1990s. He is known for his role as Christie in the film *Alien Resurrection* (1997) and for portraying Warrick Brown on the television series *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* (2000–2008). Other credits include *Thursday* (1998), *Impostor* (2001), *Perfect Stranger* (2007) and voice work on *Batman: Gotham Knight* (2008). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Alien Resurrection* (1997), Fi1m 60, as Christie — [page](https://film.one/film/alien-resurrection.md) ## Complete filmography (53) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Mnemonix* (2025), as Col. Andrew McFarland - *The Lost Princess* (2025), as Nassim Ikken · Executive Producer - *Zero* (2025), as Daniel - *Albany Road* (2024), as Phil - *Swerve · Eli* (2024), Director - *Heaven Sent* (2023), as Jeff - *The Moderator* (2022), as Agent Richard Bourdeau - *And Just Like That…* (2021), series, as Toussaint - *Redemption Day* (2021), as Brad Paxton - *Righteous Villains* (2020), as Mickey Monroe - *Influence* (2020), as Perk - *First Wives Club* (2019), series, as Dr. Malcolm Reynard - *The Last O.G.* (2018), series, as Bricks - *All She Wrote* (2018), as Aaron - *Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story* (2016), as Augie - *Reversion* (2015), as Ayden - *For the Love of Ruth* (2015), as Braxton - *Mysterious Ways* (2015), as Mozart - *Five Thirteen* (2014), as Clyde - *The Last Letter* (2013), as George - *Being Mary Jane* (2013), series, as Sheldon - *Jumping the Broom* (2011), as Chef - *Glee* (2009), series, as DeShawn — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/glee.md) - *Fire!* (2008), as Phil May - *Batman: Gotham Knight* (2008), as Crispus Allen (voice) - *Black August* (2007), as George Jackson - *Perfect Stranger* (2007), as Cameron - *Fillmore!* (2002), series, Actor - *Kim Possible* (2002), series, as Dash DaMont (voice) - *Impostor* (2001), as Capt. Burke - *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* (2000), series, as Warrick Brown - *Soul Food* (2000), series, as Jack Van Adams - *Trois* (2000), as Jermaine Davis - *Muhammad Ali: King of the World* (2000), as Malcolm X - *Rendezvous* (1999), Actor - *The Weekend* (1999), Actor - *New Jersey Turnpikes* (1999), Actor - *Thursday* (1998), as Ballpean - *Scarred City* (1998), as Sgt. Dan Creedy - *Alien Resurrection* (1997), as Christie — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/alien-resurrection.md) - *Playing God* (1997), as Yates - *Fool's Paradise* (1997), as Derek - *Sunset Park* (1996), as Dreadlock Guy - *Swift Justice* (1996), series, as Detective Randall Patterson - *The Office* (1995), series, as Bobby Harold - *New York Undercover* (1994), series, Actor - *The Paper* (1994), as Copy Guy - *Keys* (1994), as Loot - *Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman* (1993), series, as Ziggy - *Laurel Avenue* (1993), series, as Anthony - *Weekend at Bernie's II* (1993), as Cartel Man #2 - *The Good Fight* (1992), as Elijah - *A Different World* (1987), series, as Shazza Zulu ## Gallery - ![Gary Dourdan](https://film.one/media/person/1081146/gallery-1342615c4423.jpg) Gary Dourdan — Palm Springs Police Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Gary_Dourdan.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Gary Dourdan, film act in Berlin, Germany (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/1081146/gallery-7d3aaa4a0c6b.jpg) Gary Dourdan, film act in Berlin, Germany (2008) — gorriti, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Gary_Dourdan_Berlin.jpg/1280px-Gary_Dourdan_Berlin.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gary Dourdan, film and television actor in Berlin, Germany. (This version has been cropped and brightness adjusted to account for main subject being in shadow. (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/1081146/gallery-9e32afd9a4a0.jpg) Gary Dourdan, film and television actor in Berlin, Germany. (This version has been cropped and brightness adjusted to account for main subject being in shadow. (2008) — Please credit author of original source image, Jesús Gorriti (Non-creditable crop and brightening by Ubcule), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Gary_Dourdan_Berlin_%28lightened_crop%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Gary Dourdan, film and television actor in Berlin, Germany. (This version has been cropped and brightness adjusted to account for main subject being in shadow. (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/1081146/gallery-6f1858ead485.jpg) Gary Dourdan, film and television actor in Berlin, Germany. (This version has been cropped and brightness adjusted to account for main subject being in shadow. (2008) — Please credit author of original source image, Jesús Gorriti (Non-creditable crop and brightening by Ubcule), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Gary_Dourdan_Berlin_%28lightened_crop_more%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Gary Dourdan](https://film.one/media/person/1081146/gallery-99a1663105f0.jpg) Gary Dourdan — Image via TMDB - ![Gary Dourdan](https://film.one/media/person/1081146/gallery-9434a007f588.jpg) Gary Dourdan — Image via TMDB - !["Mr. Brown" with the one and only Gary Dourdan from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, captured for the first time in the historic wet plate collodion process of p (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/1081146/gallery-a648ec67f9a2.jpg) "Mr. Brown" with the one and only Gary Dourdan from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, captured for the first time in the historic wet plate collodion process of p (2023) — Balkowitsch, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Gary_Robert_Dourdan_%22Mr._Brown%22_Wet_Plate_Collodion_by_Shane_Balkowitsch_8-3-2023.jpg/1280px-Gary_Robert_Dourdan_%22Mr._Brown%22_Wet_Plate_Collodion_by_Shane_Balkowitsch_8-3-2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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