Eamonn Walker

Eamonn Roderique Walker (born 12 June 1962) is a British film, television, and theatre actor. In the United States he is known for playing Kareem Saïd in the HBO television series Oz, for which he won a CableACE Award, and (since 2012) Chief Wallace Boden on Chicago Fire and other shows within the Chicago franchise. In the United Kingdom, his notable roles have included Winston in the 1980s BBC series In Sickness and in Health, PC Malcolm Haynes in The Bill and John Othello in the 2001 ITV1 production of Othello.

Walker was born in west London to a Grenadian father and a Trinidadian mother, in 1962.[2][3] Brought up in Islington in north London,[4] Walker lived in Trinidad for six months when he was nine years old. He attended Hungerford School in Islington[5] and began studying social work at the Polytechnic of North London. He trained as a dancer and later joined the Explosive Dance Theatre Company in London.[3] However, an abscess on his calf muscle forced him to give up dancing. He also studied at the New York Film Academy in the United States