Shemar Moore's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Criminal Minds Derek Morgan The Young and the Restless Malcolm Win… Birds of Prey Jesse Reese Match Game panelist (10)

Main Movie Roles

BIOGRAPHY:

Shemar Moore (born April 20, 1970) is best known for his portrayal of Malcolm Winters in The Young and the Restless on CBS, for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2000. He was also nominated for Daytime Emmys in the category of Outstanding Younger Leading Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 and 1997 and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1999. He has won six NAACP Image Awards.

Moore's other television credits include the mini-series Scott Turow's Reversible Errors, on CBS, the series Birds of Prey and the movie How to Marry a Billionaire. His feature film credits include Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Butter, Motives, The Brothers and The Seat Filler. Moore currently lives in Los Angeles.



TRIVIA:

• Attended Santa Clara University where he majored in communications and played varsity baseball.
• Attended Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California: Class of 1988.
• Has black hair and brown eyes.
• His mother moved the family to Holland, she only spoke Dutch to him as a child. Since his African-American father was not around, he didn't learn to speak English until he was about five or six.
• Graduated from Santa Clara University.
• His mother is caucasian and his father is African American.
• Nephew of a high school teacher, Stephen Wilson of Watertown High School in Watertown Massachussetts.
• Previously dated both 'Halle Berry' (qv) and 'Toni Braxton' (qv).