Rockmond Dunbar

Rockmond Dunbar — Biography

American actor Rockmond Dunbar has worked mainly in television since the 1990s. He is best known for playing the inmate Benjamin Miles "C-Note" Franklin in Prison Break, while Kenny Chadway in Soul Food and Sheriff Eli Roosevelt in Sons of Anarchy are among his other standout characters. In 2025 he joined Taraji P. Henson and Teyana Taylor in the cast of the film Son Damla.

His early work includes Baines in NBC's Earth 2 and a recurring role on Girlfriends; Showtime's family drama Soul Food made him a lead. In Prison Break, which began in 2005, he shared the cast with Wentworth Miller, Sarah Wayne Callies, Dominic Purcell and Robert Knepper, and the series returned for a fifth season. In 2011 he joined Sons of Anarchy as Charming's new sheriff, in 2013 he played FBI agent Dennis Abbott on The Mentalist, and he later played FBI agent Abe Gaines in Hulu's The Path and, from 2018, Michael Grant in 9-1-1.

In film, Punks screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Highland Park, Edge of Fear and the Tyler Perry-produced The Family That Preys are among his credits. He has also produced and directed. After Oakland Technical High School he spent a year at Morehouse College, then continued at the University of New Mexico.