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Danso Gordon Born Danso Nyameche Gordon
August 3, 1979
Toronto, Ontario,
CanadaDanso Gordon (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian actor.
Gordon was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia before moving on to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles. His very first acting gig was as a guest star in CBC's Street Cents and moved on to filming footwear commercials with the basketball star Charles Barkley. He later appeared in a number of other acting projects like the TV series Sliders, the 1998 film American History X and starring roles in the NBC Saturday morning sitcom Hang Time, The Disney Series In a Heartbeat and The N-Network's original series South Of Nowhere. He also made special appearances in the internet drama College Daze beginning in 2007, he was also in South Of Nowhere as Clay and Dark House. He is also co-owner of the caleb clothing company.
He co-directed the short film "COLE" which won Best Actor in a short film during the 2007 Playhouse West Film Festival.
In 2010, he was in a State Farm commercial.
Early Life
Danso was born in the Jane and Trethewey public housing area of Toronto, Ontario. His parents divorced when he was 2 and he was raised with his working mother. His father is from Jamaica and his mother was born and raised in Canada. He moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia at the age of 12 and immersed himself in sports. He played soccer, basketball and was an award-winning track star in Jr. High. At the age of 15 he moved to Los Angeles to live with his father and began to pursue acting. A friend in his high school english class introduced him to his acting teacher/manager who got him connected with an agent that he's continued to have throughout his career. He quickly booked his first job filming a shoe commercial working alongside Charles Barkley and quickly landed his first series regular role on the NBC show 'Hang Time'. He graduated from UCLA with a degree in Psychobiology.
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Categories:- 1979 births
- Black Canadian actors
- Canadian television actors
- Living people
- People from Toronto
- Black Nova Scotians
- Canadian television actor stubs
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