From stage to screen, Carl Lumbly (featured performer) is an actor respected for his steadfast talent, versatility and class. His prolific career includes over 50 credits in television, film and the theatre and extensive critical acclaim.

Lumbly portrayed CIA agent 'Marcus Dixon,' the gentle, mild-mannered field partner to agent 'Sydney Bristow' (Jennifer Garner) on ABC's fast-paced drama series, Alias, for five seasons. 

He currently has a recurring role on the TNT cop drama, Southland, where he plays a new police captain.

For the stage, he starred in the San Francisco Playhouse's production of Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, Stephen Adly Guirgis's raucous drama directed by Bill English.  For his remarkable performance, he was honored with a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Performance by an Actor.  Most recently, he was featured in the San Francisco Playhouse production of Cormac McCarthy’s Sunset Limited.

The son of Jamaican immigrants, Lumbly moved to San Francisco intending to work as a journalist for Associated Press. Shortly after arriving, he came across a newspaper ad seeking “two black actors for South African political plays.”  That audition led to a role alongside the other actor already cast — an unknown Danny Glover.  A forever friendship formed, Lumbly toured with Glover in productions of Athol Fugard's Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island.

His journey continued to Los Angeles, where he signed with an agent, followed by a move to New York.  There, he landed his first significant on-screen role in a movie-of-the-week, Cagney and Lacey, which turned into the hit series.  It was on this show where he met and married the acclaimed actress, Vonetta McGee.

Throughout his celebrated career, Lumbly has earned a variety of awards and nominations for his work.  His extensive feature credits include Men of Honor, Everybody's All-American, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, South Central, Pacific Heights, To Sleep With Anger, The Bedroom Window, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and Caveman.

For television, Lumbly starred in Color of Friendship, Little Richard, On Promised Land, The Ditchdigger's Daughters, Nightjohn, and Sounder, ABC's telefilm remake of the 1972 classic.  He also starred as the voice of action hero 'J'onn J'onzz/Martian Manhunter,' in the Cartoon Network's animated series Justice League.