| CCH Pounder | ||
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| ...as Carolyn Maddox | ||
| Character Carolyn Maddox | ||
| Date of birth 25 December 1952 | ||
| Place of birth Guyana | ||
| IMDb profile |
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.
From 2002 to 2008, she has starred as Detective Claudette Wyms in the The Shield. 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). In 2014, she also played as Dr. Loretta Wade in CBS procedural series NCIS: New Orleans.
