Carl Gilliard

By Chrystal O’Jon

Actor, Husband & So Much More!

Carl Rousseau Gilliard is an American actor, director, and producer. Gilliard started his career working as a radio newscaster at WGPR in Detroit. He moved to Los Angeles in 1985, where he appeared in over two dozen plays. He has also appeared in films such as Inception, The Lost Shepherd, and Retiring Tatiana.

Carl Rousseau Gilliard is the President/CEO of the Gilliard Media Group, LLC (GMG), based in Los Angeles, CA. GMG provides media consultation, casting, media content creation, publishing, coaching and entertainment production services. His wife, Latonya Gilliard, serves as Vice President of Operations.

Carl is also the Co-Creator of the Bill Duke Media Foundation’s Youth Media Camp, a non-profit organization with a distinct emphasis on offering new media arts and financial literacy to inner-city youth, ages 15 thru 18, in South Los Angeles, California.

Carl is a graduate of Michigan State University, and a native of Detroit, Michigan, by way of Chicago, Illinois. Upon moving to California, he dove into acting and landed many television and film roles, which facilitated his masterful skills in networking and forming relationships that has catapulted him into becoming extremely well-respected in the industry. Carl has numerous film credits, including Inception (Warner Bros), Red Eye (DreamWorks), Coach Carter (Paramount), and many television credits, including Shameless, Greys Anatomy, Amazon’s The Last Tycoon & House, MD, just to name a few. Mr. Gilliard is presently recurring on the hit action/drama, The Family Business, now streaming on BET+. and on Peacock’s Bel Air. He has appeared in dozens of independent short and feature films. He is also the Creator, Writer, Executive Producer and Star of the HIT digital series, Two Degrees.

AMPS Los Angeles had the opportunity to reach out to Carl and find out more about his entertainment journey via Q&A. https:// www.imdb.com/name/nm0318784/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

by: J.D.Bosold