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Chris Chalk  

Television, Film & Theatre Actor; Best Known for Portraying Yusuf Salaam on the Netflix miniseries "When They See Us"

Christopher Eugene Chalk is a television, film, and theatre actor, known for his role as Yusuf Salaam in the Netflix original series "When They See Us."

Chalk graduated from Asheville High School in 2003 and earned a BFA in acting at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2007.

Chalk is known for television roles such as journalist Gary Cooper in "The Newsroom," Marine Tom Walker in "Homeland," and murderer Jody Adair in "Justified." He has also been in multiple "Law & Order" episodes and appears in "Gotham" as a young Lucius Fox. Chalk is also known for his roles in the 2010 Broadway play "Fences," and the films "12 Years a Slave" (2013) and "Red Sea Diving Resort" (2019).

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