My Take
Harry Lennix is one of those actors who quietly makes everything around him better, and I say that as someone who has followed his career across wildly different genres. Growing up in Chicago and training at Northwestern gave him a theatrical foundation you can feel in every scene — there's a stillness and authority to him that most actors spend decades trying to develop. I loved him in The Five Heartbeats, he was magnetic and grounded in Joss Whedon's underappreciated Dollhouse, and then he spent years as the unflappable Harold Cooper on The Blacklist, holding the procedural chaos together with sheer presence. He also showed up in Zack Snyder's DC films, always dignified. The guy rarely gets the headline, but take him out of a scene and you'd notice the hole immediately.
Overview
Harold Joseph Lennix III (born November 16, 1964) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Terrence "Dresser" Williams in the Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats (1991) and as Boyd Langton in the Fox science-fiction series Dollhouse. Lennix co-starred as Harold Cooper, assistant director of the FBI Counterterrorism Division, on the NBC drama The Blacklist.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Harry Lennix
- Name (Japanese)
- ハリー・J・レニックス
- Reading
- はりー・J・れにっくす
- Born
- November 16, 1964 (age 61)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Dragon
- Origin
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film producer / teacher / stage actor / film actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Northwestern University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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.