Daniel Sunjata Bio, Age, Height, Net Worth, Parents, Wife, Movies, Theater

Daniel Sunjata Net Worth

Daniel has a net worth of $2 million dollars which he earns from his devoted work as an actor.

Daniel Sunjata Early Life And Education

Sunjata was born in Chicago where he also grew up. He is the adopted son of Bill and Catherine Condon, who is a police dispatcher and a civil rights worker. His adoptive father and mother are of Irish and Italian-German descent. Sunjata is named in honor of the African king named Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Mali Empire. The name means “an hungry lion.”

He was told that his biological mother was a white teenager who had run away from home and his father was black. He studied and graduated from Mount Carmel High School in Chicago, where he played linebacker for duo state championship football teams.

He finished his undergraduate studies at Florida A&M University including in the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He attained a master’s degree in fine arts from the Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is of three descents that is Black, German, and Irish.

Daniel Sunjata Wife|Married

Sunjata’s whole personal life remains a mystery as he likes to keep it personal and private. There are no records showing his wife, children neither is he s gay.

Daniel Sunjata Family

Sunjata was born in Chicago where he also grew up under the care of  his adoptive parents Bill and Catherine Condon.

Daniel Sunjata Condon

Daniel sunjata Condon is his other name, Condon being his sir name from his adoptive parents Bill and Catherine.

Daniel Sunjata Parents|Biological Parents

Sunjata was Born of a white teenager his biological mother who ran away from home and his biological father who was a black. However he was adopted by Bill and Catherine Condon while he was still  at a young age who raised him.

Daniel Sunjata Catherine Condon

Catherine Condon is Sunjata’s adoptive mother.

Daniel Sunjata Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises is a superhero film which aired in 2012.  The film was directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with together with his brother Jonathan Nolan, and the story with David S. Goyer. Sunjata plays the role of Mark Jones, a U.S. Special Ops officer who leads a task force into Gotham assisting  Gordon and the GCPD in freeing the city from Bane’s rule

Daniel Sunjata Father

Daniel’s biological father was a black before he was adopted by Bill Condon who is now his adoptive father.

Daniel Sunjata Siblings

There are no records revealing any information concerning Sunjata’s siblings as he likes keeping his personal life private and out of media.

Daniel Sunjata Career

Sunjata portrayed a sailor on shore leave on the first post-9/11 themed episode of Sex and The City. He also played the role of poet Langston Hughes in the film Brother to Brother in 2004 and James Holt, a fashion designer, in The Devil Wears Prada in 2006. He starred as a firefighter Franco Rivera on the television program Rescue Me.

During the summer of 2007, he still starred in the ESPN miniseries The Bronx is Burningas Reggie Jackson. He played the role of Special Forces Operative in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises in 2012. In 2003, Sunjata won a Theatre World Award for his breakout Broadway performance as a gay Major League Baseball player who comes out to the public in the film Take Me Out, the Tony award-winning play, earning him nominations for a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award.

In 2010 to 2011 he portrayed “Nurse Eli” on the TV series Grey’s Anatomy having a relationship with Dr. Miranda Bailey. Starting of 2013 he portrayed FBI agent Paul Briggs on Graceland, which premiered on USA Network. The show was then canceled in 2015 after 3 seasons.

Daniel Sunjata Views on the September 11 attacksOn April 30, 2009, Daniel announced his participation as narrator in Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup. This was the final in a series of documentaries, collectively best known as Loose Change, that wrangle that the September 11 attacks were planned by the United States government.

Sunjata claimed that he believes “absolutely, 100 percent” in this theory.

Producers of Rescue Me, who were inspired by Sunjata’s views, made a subplot of the show that year (the show’s fifth season) in which Sunjata’s character, Franco Rivera, stirs up controversy in the firehouse when he tells these similar views to a journalist.