Dennis Haysbert
That’s probably why I’m never bored.
My philosophy is ‘if you are bored, then
What you may not have known
you are not doing something right, you
are not engaged’.”
BEOEJ:
about Dennis Haysbert
If you were not an actor, what
career path would you be on?
Dennis Haysbert: “Probably
• An advocate on Global Warming
teaching, I always loved working with
• Is the eighth of nine children
people. But who knows, I really don’t
• Enjoys playing golf and scuba diving
know. There’s a whole group of things • Attended San Mateo High School in San Mateo California
I could have done. I could be a psy-
• Got his first major acting gig on TV in 1986 when he joined The Young
chologist, if you ask any of my friends;
and the Restless taking on the role of Ron
I give a lot of advice. Sometimes I’m
vilified for it and sometimes I’m thanked
• Has two children: Charles Haysbert and Katharine Haysbert
profusely for it, but I am rarely wrong.
• Enjoys sports, “If you can play it, I wanted to participate!”
Probably into politics too.”
• Graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA)
BEOEJ: How involved are you in • Does voice work for various video games
charities and organizations?
• Currently lives in Malibu, California
Black History. Made daily.
Dennis Haysbert: “Very involved in
• He is 6’4 ½ ” tall
charities. One of my favorites that I wish
would go away is HIV/AIDS preven-
• Very much involved in charities and social causes
tion and education, I’ve been doing that
• While attending the AADA, he was invited to train for the U.S.
since 1999 when I was at the Harlem
Olympic Fencing Team.
Health Expo for HIV/AIDS prevention • Is a big science fiction buff
and education. I try to give time to that
• Would like to play a great super-hero
whenever I can even through PSAs. I
• In High School, Haysbert’s goal was to be on the cover of Ebony and
also have taken on another one, which
I think, is equally important and that is
TV Guide
how we eat. I have determined that how
• Became the spokesman for Allstate Insurance in 2003
we eat is directly proportioned to how
• Enjoys being a service to others
our overall health is. I am involved with
the foundation that my ex-wife started it
is called Life Well Prepared. It basically
empowers teens and pre-teens and it protects the women who would go down BEOEJ: Do you have a motto?
impacts everyone, but you figure if you to the river which is usually a good Dennis Haysbert: “Several, but the
get the young people early and you teach distance away from the village where one that comes immediately to mind is
them how to fix their own snacks. You’d a number of things can happen to them “if you are not doing what you are suppo-
be surprised how kids don’t know how to on their way down to the river or to the sed to be doing, consider it done.” I don’t
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make their own salads. If they do know watering hole. There are wild animals, know if that’s a motto or something that
how to make their own salad, they make like alligators and there is also war, a lot you tell yourself. My motto is ‘take not-
it so boring that they don’t want to eat it. of women also get raped on their way to hing personally, anything that somebody
So what we try to do is figure out how to get water. So a rain catcher in the village says about you, for you to you generally
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to make it quick. comes then you’ll have water for the take it on you are giving that energy or
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the environment or global warming? BEOEJ: What are some mistakes that to yourself be true’.”
Every one of them has the potential to make history. This month and
Dennis Haysbert: “Absolutely! I’m you have learned from? BEOEJ: What are your goals or
working with another organization cal- Dennis Haysbert: “I learned not to dreams for the future?
every month, Allstate
®
celebrates the accomplishments of African Americans.
led
Raincatcher.org and you can go to repeat them and to not talk about it. The Dennis Haysbert: “Ten or twenty When February ends, community support shouldn't. That's Allstate's stand.
the web site and see what we do. This less people that know about it the better. years I still see myself acting, directing
year alone, I’ve put in ten rain catchers And you know what, I learn a great deal and producing. I’m developing a number
Visit
beyondfebruary.com.
in Kenya, which also saves lives on a from my faux pas and those things. But of things right now, and they will reveal
number of levels because it keeps people the biggest thing I’ve learned is to not themselves shortly.”
from drinking tainted water and it also dwell and to not repeat them.”
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