Charles Malik Whitfield

Charles Malik Whitfield is an American actor.

Beginning his career in 1992, he played, from 1993 to 1994, Ben Price on the ABC daytime soap opera, One Life to Live.

He later appeared in films Fresh and Bleeding Hearts.

He is known for his performance as Otis Williams in the television miniseries, The Temptations (1998), for which he was nominated for a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie or Mini-Series.

Whitfield later starred in the television series The Guardian and If Loving You Is Wrong and also had the recurring roles in Supernatural, American Horror Story, Empire and Chicago Med.

Whitfield was born in the Bronx, New York.

Whitfield is best known for his role as Otis Williams in the 1998 miniseries The Temptations.

From 2001 to 2003 he starred as James Mooney in the CBS legal drama series, The Guardian.

Whitfield later guest-starred on CSI: Miami, Castle, The Game, Private Practice, White Collar, Rizzoli & Isles, Body of Proof, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Good Wife, and Scorpion.

He also had the recurring role of Agent Henriksen in The CW series Supernatural from 2007 to 2008, and co-starred in the number of television pilots.

Whitfield also featured in Ubisoft's first-person shooter, Far Cry 3 as Dennis who helps Jason Brody throughout the game.

In 2014, Whitfield began starring as April Parker Jones' character's love interest in the Oprah Winfrey Network series If Loving You Is Wrong.

In 2016 he appeared in 3 episodes of the sixth season of the anthological series American Horror Story, portraying Mason Harris.

The series ended in 2019.

In 2019, Whitfield starred on Bounce TV original sitcom Last Call in the lead role as Darius Knight.

In 2022 he starred in the second season of Allblk horror anthology series, Terror Lake Drive.