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Damon Evans
Damon Evans

Damon Evans played the part of Lionel in Seasons 2-4 of "The Jeffersons".

Personal Information
Born: (1949-11-24) November 24, 1949 (age 75)
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation/
Career:
Actor
Years active: 1975–2000
Character information
Appeared on: The Jeffersons
Character played: Lionel Jefferson in Seasons 2-4
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Damon Evans (born November 24, 1949) is an American actor, best known as the second of two actors who portrayed Lionel Jefferson on the The Jeffersons. He also portrayed the young Alex Haley (ages 17–25) in the ABC television miniseries Roots: The Next Generations.

Evans attended the Interlochen Academy on a Reader's Digest Scholarship. After graduation, he attended the Boston Conservatory of Music. While in Boston he appeared in productions of Two If by Sea, Hair, and The Corner at the Theatre Company of Boston.

Theatre credits[]

Damon's Off-Broadway credits include performances in A Day in the Life of Just About Everyone, Bury the Dead (for the Urban Arts Corp) and Love Me, Love My Children. He made his Broadway theatre debut in The Me Nobody Knows. Other Broadway credits include Via Galactica and Lost in the Stars. He also toured as Judas Iscariot and Jesus Christ in the authorized concert version of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. He appeared in the Tony, Obie, and Drama Desk Award-winning Broadway musical Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope.

In the late 1980s, Evans appeared in Trevor Nunn's enormously successful, critically acclaimed, Glyndebourne Festival production of the George Gershwin opera, Porgy and Bess, and again in the 1993 television adaptation of that production. In addition to Evans and other noted performers, this British production of Gershwin's American folk opera featured the Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Philharmonic, both conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Evans played Sportin' Life, a role originated by John W. Bubbles and originally written for famed 1920s and 1930s jazz bandleader and singer Cab Calloway.

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