Ernie Hudson

Ernie Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American actor. He was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan. After a short stint in the Marine Corps, he moved to Detroit where he became the resident playwright at Concept East, the oldest Black Theatre company in the country. In addition, he enrolled at Wayne State University to further develop his writing and acting skills, and found time to establish the Actors' Emsemble Theatre where he and other talented young black writers directed and appeared in their own works.

He played Winston Zeddemore, a firefighter who enlists with the Ghostbusters in the 1984 film, as well as Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz.

Filmography

• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005)
• Oz (1997-2003, TV)
• Miss Congeniality (2000)
• The Substitute (1996)
• Congo (1995)
• Sugar Hill (1994)
• No Escape (1994)
• The Crow (1994)
• The Cowboy Way (1994)
• The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
• Leviathan (1989)
• Ghostbusters II (1989)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)