<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> 3 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Awards </Th> <Td> CableACE Award--Actor in a Dramatic Series 1997 Oz--Kareem Saïd BFM Film & Television Awards--Best male performance in television 2002 Othello--John Othello </Td> </Tr> <P> Eamonn Roderique Walker (born 12 June 1962) is a British film, television and theatre actor . In the United States he is known for playing Kareem Saïd in the HBO television series Oz, for which he won a CableACE Award, as Winston in In Sickness and in Health, and John Othello in the 2001 ITV1 production of Othello . Since 2012 he has played Firehouse 51 Battalion Chief Wallace Boden on Chicago Fire and other shows within the Chicago franchise . </P> <P> Walker was born in London to a Grenadian father and a Trinidadian mother, in 1962 . Brought up in Islington in London, Walker lived in Trinidad for six months when he was nine years old . He attended Hungerford School in Islington and began studying social work at the University of North London . He trained as a dancer and later joined the Explosive Dance Theatre Company in London . However, an abscess on his calf muscle forced him to give up dancing . He also studied at the New York Film Academy in the United States . </P>

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