Carl Lumbly Net Worth

Carl Lumbly's Quotes

• [Acting is] not to promote yourself or exercise your expertise or demonstrate your acting knowledge and skill; it's to be a vessel for the information that that character has to give up.
• There are so many 'accepted' criteria at least for defining your success in Los Angeles. I think you have to just establish your own criteria for yourself before you enter the town or shortly thereafter. It has to be about your personal happiness. What is is that you like about yourself that you would like to hold on to? Then be really principled about holding on to it.

Interesting Facts about Carl Lumbly

1. Attended the same college as Peter Berg - Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He appeared in a guest role with Berg in episode #2.17, "Life Lines" of Chicago Hope (1994). Berg also guest starred in two episodes of Alias (2001) where Lumbly had a big role.
2. A former journalist in Minnesota, he got an acting job while on assignment for a story about a workshop theatre and stayed with the improvisational company for two years.
3. Both he and close friend Danny Glover made their feature film debuts in Escape from Alcatraz (1979).
4. Has played an alien in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) and voiced the alien Martian Manhunter/J'onn J'onzz on the animated Justice League (2001) series.
5. Longtime close friends with Danny Glover, they appeared together in two of Athol Fugard's plays early in their career: "Siswe Bansi Is Dead" and "The Island". Carl recently appeared in the film Just a Dream (2002) directed by Glover.
6. Has a son, Brandon Lumbly (born 1988) with Vonetta McGee.
7. He was awarded the 1991 NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Miss Evers Boys" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.