Roscoe Orman

Roscoe Orman
Orman at the 2007 Texas Book Festival
Born	Roscoe Hunter Orman (1944-06-11) June 11, 1944 (age 72) The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Other names	Roscoe H. Orman Roscoe H Orman
Occupation	Actor, entertainer, writer
Years active	1962–present
Notable work	Sesame Street
Height	6 ft. 0 in. (183 cm)
Spouse(s)	Kimberley LaMarque Orman
Children	4

Roscoe Hunter Orman (born June 11, 1944) is an American actor, comedian and writer, best known for playing Gordon Robinson, one of the central human characters on Sesame Street. Orman joined the show in 1974, becoming the third actor to play Gordon (subsequent to Matt Robinson, 1969–1972, and Hal Miller, 1972–1974). His contract was not renewed in 2016, as part of Sesame's Workshop's re-tooling for the series, but the organization did say that Orman would continue to represent them at public events. Sesame Workshop later announced that they'd try to find a way to bring him back.

Orman is also an accomplished stage, film, and television actor; children's book writer; artist; and child advocate.

While a student at New York City's High School of Art and Design, Orman made his theatrical debut in the 1962 topical revue "If We Grow Up." He was an early member of the Free Southern Theater in New Orleans for two years in the mid-1960s and a founding member of Robert Macbeth's New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, NY, where he both acted in and directed several plays by NLT's playwright-in-residence, Ed Bullins. His many other stage appearances have included roles in "Julius Caesar" and "Coriolanus" at Joseph Papp's Public Theater, the Broadway production of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Fences", Manhattan Theatre Club's stagings of Richard Wesley's "The Sirens", "The Last Street Play", and "The Talented Tenth", and Matt Robinson's one-man play [The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit]] at the American Place Theatre. Orman is the recipient of two Audelco Theatre Awards and a five-time nominee.

He made his feature film debut in the title role of Universal Studios' 1974 drama Willie Dynamite and has also appeared in such films as F/X, Striking Distance, New Jersey Drive, Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird, Twilight's Last Gleaming, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, and Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life. His television credits include work on such shows as All My Children, Kojak, Sanford and Son, Cosby, Sex and the City, The Wire, Law & Order, and "SVU". He has recently appeared on the Garry Trudeau/Amazon streaming production Alpha House and also the HBO mini-series, "(The Night Of)".