CSI: NEW YORK

“Dr. Sheldon Hawkes” (Hill Harper)

As Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Sheldon Hawkes feels perfectly at ease in a room filled with death. Raised in Harlem, Dr. Hawkes was a child prodigy who graduated college at eighteen. By twenty-four, he was a board-licensed surgeon. Young and socially inexperienced, his education could not shield him from the pressure of saving lives. Two years later, Dr. Hawkes left the operating room, retreating to the safety of the medical examiner’s office.

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Hill Harper most recently starred as Darnell in the CBS series “The Handler,” for which he earned a 2004 Golden Satellite Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. His role in the series “City of Angels,” on CBS, garnered him a NAACP Image Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor. His other television credits include “The Court,” “Live Shot,” the upcoming film “Lackawanna Blues” and the mini-series “Mama Flora's Family,” on the Network. He has made guest appearances in “The Sopranos,” “Soul Food,” “The New Twilight Zone,” “ER” “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” “Married... With Children,” “Cosby” and “NYPD Blue.”

His feature film credits include “Love, Sex and Eating the Bones,” “America Brown,” “The Badge,” “Loving Jezebel,” “The Nephew,” “The Skulls,” “In Too Deep,” “Beloved,” “Have Plenty,” “He Got Game,” “Get on the Bus,” “Zooman,” “Full Court Press” and “One Red Rose,” which he also co-wrote. His role in the film “The Visit” earned him a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award.

Harper’s theater credits include “Dogeaters,” the Off Broadway productions of “Blue,” “Your Handsome Captain,” “Freeman” and David Mamet's “American Buffalo.” He is a full-time member of Boston's Black Folk's Theater Company, one of the nation's oldest and most respected African-American traveling theater troupes.

Originally from Iowa City, Iowa, Harper graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and has two graduate degrees from Harvard University; a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a masters in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government.

He lives in Los Angeles. His birth date is May 17th.