Emmy Award-winning actor Glynn Turman's showbiz career spans around five decades, in the course of which he has appeared in over forty feature films and around a hundred tv shows. He is perhaps best familiar to the moviegoers for his work in films like Cooley High (1975), Men of Honor (2000), Sahara (2005) and Super 8 (2011); while the television audience might know Turman from his performances as Mayor Clarence V. Royce in the crime drama The Wire (2002-'08), as Alex Prince Sr. in the HBO drama In Treatment (2008-'10) and as psychiatrist Jeremiah Kaan in the comedy-drama House of Lies (2012-'16).

His performance in the the HBO series In Treatment earned Turman an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2008. Other significant acting credits in recent times include the tv show How to Get Away with Murder (2018) and the sci-fi action film Bumblebee (2018).