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My Take
Lumbly is the kind of actor who quietly raises the level of everything he's in. I first locked onto him through his voice work as the Martian Manhunter, where his calm gravity gave the character a real soul, and then again on Alias, where he was the steady moral center amid all the chaos. His turn as Isaiah Bradley in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was a masterclass in restrained pain, doing more with a few scenes than most actors manage in a whole arc. He's a stage-trained performer who never overplays, and that discipline is exactly what makes him so reliable and so moving.
Overview
Carl Lumbly (born 1951) is an American actor of stage, film, and television, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Jamaican immigrant parents and educated at Macalester College. He is widely known for television roles including Marcus Dixon on the spy series Alias and Detective Marcus Petrie on Cagney & Lacey, along with extensive voice work, notably as the Martian Manhunter in animated DC projects. In later years he appeared as Isaiah Bradley in Marvel's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Carl Lumbly
- Name (Japanese)
- カール・ランブリー
- Reading
- かーる・らんぶりー
- Born
- August 14, 1951 (age 74)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Rabbit
- Origin
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- Television actor / Stage actor / Film actor / Voice actor / Actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Macalester College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.