Eriq La Salle is an American actor, director, writer and producer. He is known for his performances in the films Coming to America and especially as Dr. Peter Benton in the NBC medical drama ER. He has also directed episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, CSI: NY, and Ringer.
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Eriq La Salle is an American actor, director, writer and producer. He is known for his performances in the films Coming to America and especially as Dr. Peter Benton in the NBC medical drama ER. He has also directed episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, CSI: NY, and Ringer as well as the 2012 Hallmark Channel movie Playing Father. He co-starred as Will Munson in the 2017 superhero film Logan.
He also had roles in CSI: Night Shift, Mad Secretary, The Cyberamam and Under the Dome. He was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, by his mother, Ada Haynes. He attended the Juilliard School’s Drama Division for two years as a member of Group 13, then attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate Acting Program in 1984.
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