
Erik Dellums
Department: Acting
Biography
Erik Todd Dellums (born September 23, 1964) is an American actor and narrator. On television, he is known for playing the drug kingpin Luther Mahoney on Homicide: Life on the Street (1996 - 1998) and Dr. Randall Frazier on The Wire (2002 - 2004). He voiced Koh in Avatar: The Last Aribender (2005) and Aaravos in The Dragon Prince (2018 - 2024). Dellums also has performed voice work in video games, including the roles of radio DJ Three Dog in the Fallout 3 (2008), Nazir in Skyrim (2011), and Prince Arcann, Thexan, and Oggo in Knights of the Fallen Empire (2015). Dellums appeared in minor parts in the Spike Lee films She's Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), and Do the Right Thing (1989). He is the son of Ron Dellums, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 - 1998 and as the Mayor of Oakland from 2007 - 2011.
Known For

Do the Right Thing
1989

The Doors
1991

Camp D.O.A.
2004

The Color of Friendship
2000

Good to Go
1986

She's Gotta Have It
1986

Blackmale
2000

Doctor Dolittle
1998

School Daze
1988

Boycott
2001

The Spoiled
2021

JAG
1995

The Wire
2002

How the Universe Works
2010

Mysterious Journeys
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The Beat
2000

How the Universe Works
2010

The Dragon Prince
2018

The Storyteller: Fallout
2013

Avatar: The Last Airbender
2005

NASA's Unexplained Files
2012

Homicide: Life on the Street
1993

Homeland
2011