Leonard Roberts
Biography
Leonard Roberts is an American actor born on November 17, 1972, in St. Louis, Missouri. He is known for playing Sean Taylor in Drumline and its sequel Drumline: A New Beat, Forrest Gates on the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, D. L. Hawkins on Heroes, and D'Andre Mackey in He Got Game. His other film and television credits include Ben Howard on the 2023 Goosebumps series, Zeke Allen on All American: Homecoming, Alex on The Girl in the Woods, Dennis Schatzman on American Crime Story, Instructor Rolle in American Sniper, Hayes in Savages, Detective Monroe on The Client List, Tyrone in Hoodlum, and Eddie Coles in Love Jones. Additionally, he has held recurring roles as Ronnie Cooper on 9-1-1.
Career overview
Leonard Roberts is an American actor born on November 17, 1972, in St. Louis, Missouri. He is known for numerous roles across film and television. In movies, he played Sean Taylor in Drumline and its sequel Drumline: A New Beat, D'Andre Mackey in He Got Game, Instructor Rolle in American Sniper, Hayes in Savages, Tyrone in Hoodlum, and Eddie Coles in Love Jones.
On television, Roberts has portrayed Forrest Gates on the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, D. L. Hawkins on Heroes, Ben Howard on the 2023 Goosebumps series, Zeke Allen on The CW series All American: Homecoming, Alex on Peacock's The Girl in the Woods, Dennis Schatzman on FX's American Crime Story, and Detective Monroe on The Client List. Additionally, he has taken on recurring roles as Ronnie Cooper on 9-1-1.
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- Ballard (2025) as Gerard Willis
- Goosebumps (2023) as Ben Howard
- Bosch: Legacy (2022) as Det. Gerard Willis
- All American: Homecoming (2022) as Zeke Allen
- The Other V Word (2022) as Kyle
- The Upshaws (2021) as Mitch
- Rebel (2021) as Randall Vokelberg
- The Girl in the Woods (2021) as Alex
- 9-1-1 (2018) as Ronnie Cooper
- The Neighborhood (2018) as Agent Ryder
- All American (2018) as President Zeke Allen
- Charmed (2018) as Dexter Vaughn
- Liza on Demand (2018) as Mark
- Fixed (2018) as Phil
- Headgame (2018) as The Elder
- American Crime Story (2016) as Dennis Schatzman
- Mary + Jane (2016) as Nate
- Love Is All You Need? (2016) as Coach Thompson
- The Magicians (2015) as King Idri of Loria
- Marvel's Agent Carter (2015) as Sam Sawyer
- Any Day (2015) as Troy
- Dancer and the Dame (2015) as Shepard
- My Favorite Five (2015) as Matthew (Intellect)
- American Sniper (2014) as Instructor Rolle
- Drumline: A New Beat (2014) as Dr. Sean Taylor
- Mom (2013) as Ray
- The Client List (2012) as Detective Monroe
- Savages (2012) as Hayes/'O' Security
- Franklin & Bash (2011) as Dante
- Pizza Man (2011) as Leo
- Hawaii Five-0 (2010) as Capt. Ingram
- Castle (2009) as Jason Avery
- The League (2009) as Tyree
- Red Sands (2009) as Marcus Howston
- The Mentalist (2008) as Elon Bell
- Private Practice (2007) as Ryan
- Heroes (2006) as D.L. Hawkins
- The Last Adam (2006) as Bobby Jackson
- Bones (2005) as Andrew Levitt
- NCIS (2003) as Howard Carter
- Tru Calling (2003) as Blake
- Threat Matrix (2003) as Tom Purdy / Ibrahim Kureshi
- CSI: Miami (2002) as Brad Foster
- CSI: Miami (2002) as Matthew Stone
- Live from E! (2002) as Self
- Drumline (2002) as Sean Taylor
- Joe and Max (2002) as Joe Louis
- Smallville (2001) as Nam-Ek
- 24 (2001) as Buchanan
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) as Kyle Decker
- FreakyLinks (2000)
- Masquerade (2000) as Otis
- Providence (1999)
- The '60s (1999) as Emmet Taylor
- The '60s (1999) as Emmet Taylor
- He Got Game (1998) as D'Andre Mackey
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) as Forrest Gates
- Hoodlum (1997) as Tyrone
- Love Jones (1997) as Eddie Coles
- JAG (1995) as Lt. Crawford
- ER (1994) as Police Officer
- Due South (1994) as Tyree Cameron