Eamonn Walker Joins Cast of 17th PRECINCT Pilot

According to Deadline.com, Broadway veteran Eammon Walker will join previously announced Stockard Channing in NBC's '17th Precinct' pilot. The supernatural cop series is being developed and produced by Ron Moore. The drama takes place in the 'fictional town of Excelsior where magic and supernatural elements rule over science.'

March 2005 Walker made his debut on Broadway, playing Marc Anthony in Julius Caesar at the Belasco Theatre in midtown-Manhattan alongside Denzel Washington as Marcus Brutus.

he is perhaps best known for playing Kareem Said in the HBO television series Oz, for which he won a CableACE Award, and as Winston, the gay, black thorn in Alf Garnett's side in In Sickness and in Health and John Othello in the 2001 ITV1 production of Othello.

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