Sinqua Walls


Sinqua Walls is an American actor and former college basketball player for Cal Poly Pomona and the University of San Francisco.

Early life

Originally from Louisiana, Sinqua moved to Los Angeles with his family and attended El Segundo High School. Growing up he played a variety of sports, but spent much of his childhood learning plays and studying his favorite movies, and would always watch his favorite movies until he could remember every line as practice for a future movie career. He knew that acting was what he wanted to do since he was eleven years old after watching "The Radio Flyer," which is also the first movie he memorized from start to finish. In 2007, he attended and graduated from University of San Francisco's art program where he studied Theatre and Film.

Career

Walls played Beta werewolf Boyd, a formerly recurring character on the MTV drama series Teen Wolf. He has also made appearances on Pair of Kings, Lincoln Heights, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy, Blue Mountain State, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Necessary Roughness, and on MTV's Next.
He starred in the 2011 horror feature Shark Night 3D. Walls played a guest role on the second season of the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time, as Sir Lancelot. He returned to the show during the fifth season as a guest star. He played the role of Shawn in the TV series Power. On August 1, 2017, Walls was cast in Clint Eastwood's biopic , about the thwarted 2015 Thalys train attack. The film premiered on February 9, 2018.
Walls currently portrays Don Cornelius in BET's American Soul, a fictionalized drama series based on Cornelius's long-running television dance show Soul Train.

Filmography

Film

Television