Primarily a stage actor, he received a Tony nomination as a truck-stop cook in playwright Lynn Nottage’s “Clyde’s.”
On “This Is Us,” which aired from 2016 to 2022, Mr. Jones played William “Shakespeare” Hill, whose life is renewed through his relationship with the family of his son Randall Pearson, played by Sterling K. Brown.
Mr. Jones was born in Paterson, N.J., on Jan. 8, 1957. He graduated in 1978 from nearby Ramapo College and struggled to find work in theater. A breakout role came in 1994 when he played a drug dealer in playwright Cheryl L. West’s drama “Holiday Heart.”
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