| CCH Pounder | ||
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| Character Carolyn Maddox | ||
| Date of birth December 25, 1952 | ||
| Place of birth Georgetown, Guyana | ||
| IMDb profile |
CCH (Carol Christine Hilaria) Pounder is an actress who played Defense Attorney Carolyn Maddox in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes "Ridicule", "Careless", "Strain", "Swing", and "Gray".
Pounder was born in Georgetown, Guyana, the daughter of Betsy Enid Arnella (née James) and Ronald Urlington Pounder. She was educated in England and moved to the United States in 1970. Pounder made her acting debut in the 1979 film All That Jazz.
Pounder starred in the film Bagdad Café (a role played by Whoopi Goldberg in a short-lived television sitcom). Pounder has made smaller appearances in many other successful films. She has focused primarily on her television career. In the early 1980s, Pounder first appeared in guest roles on Hill Street Blues, and then on several other popular shows (Miami Vice, L.A. Law, The X-Files, Living Single, and Quantum Leap) before landing a long-running recurring role as Dr. Angela Hicks on ER from 1994 to 1997. She starred in the Disney animated Gargoyles (with Keith David, Ed Asner, Rachel Ticotin, Clancy Brown, and Brigitte Bako) as the voice of Desdemona/Coldfire and voiced Amanda Waller (a character played by Viola Davis in the films Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad) in Justice League Unlimited (again with Brown, George Newbern, Robert Foxworth, and J.K. Simmons), Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (with Tim Daly and Xander Berkeley), and Batman: Assault on Arkham (with Neal McDonough, John DiMaggio, Hynden Walch, and Giancarlo Esposito).
From 2002 to 2008, she has starred as Detective Claudette Wyms in the The Shield (with Kenny Johnson and Jay Karnes). For this role she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2005. She had previously been nominated for Emmys in 1995 (for guest starring in The X-Files) and in 1997 (for her supporting role on ER). She also starred in the film Avatar (with Stephen Lang and Zoe Saldana) and is set to star in the sequels Avatar 2 and Avatar 3. In 2009, she played Sister Abigail in the horror movie Orphan (with Vera Farmiga). In 2014, she also played Dr. Loretta Wade in the CBS procedural series NCIS: New Orleans (with Scott Bakula, Vanessa Ferlito, Zoe McLellan, and Daryl Mitchell).