CCH Pounder

Award-winning actress CCH Pounder can be seen in the Syfy network series, "Warehouse 13." Other notable projects include the feature films Avatar and Orphan, and the television shows, Revenge, Law & Order: SVU and HBO's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, which garnered Ms. Pounder her fourth Emmy® nomination.

For seven years, Pounder portrayed Claudette Wyms on the critically acclaimed FX series, "The Shield," which earned her many accolades including an Emmy® nomination, the MIB Prism Award, two Golden Satellite Awards and the Genii Excellence in TV Award. Other honors for Ms. Pounder include an Emmy® nomination for her role as Dr. Angela Hicks on the NBC series ER and an Emmy® nomination for her role in FOX's "The X-Files."  In addition, she received a Grammy® Award nomination for Best Spoken Word Album for "Grow Old Along With Me, The Best Is Yet To Be" and won an AUDIE, the Audio Publishers Association's top honor, for "Women In The Material World."

Film credits include Bagdad Cafe, Prizzi's Honor, Postcards From The Edge, Robocop 3, Sliver, Tales From The Crypt, Face/Off and End Of Days.

Ms. Pounder is a founding member of Artists for a New South Africa and a Board Member of the African Millennium Foundation. An advocate for the arts, Ms. Pounder is active in the Creative Coalition and has nourished emerging artists through the Pounder Kone Art Space and the Musee Boribana in Senegal, which she founded with her husband.  A graduate of Ithaca College, Ms. Pounder recently received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the school and was their 2010 Commencement Speaker.

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