Danny Glover gained international star status for his portrayal of police detective Roger Murtaugh opposite Mel Gibson in the mega-hit Lethal Weapon series of films.

A native of San Francisco, Glover attended San Francisco State College and trained at the Black Actors' Workshop of the American Conservatory. He appeared in numerous stage productions, including The Island and Macbeth at the Los Angeles Actors' Theatre and Sizwe Banzi is Dead at the Eureka Theatre. However, it was Glover's performance in the New York production of Athol Fugard's Master Harold and the Boys, the first brought the actor national recognition. He has also appeared in Sam Shepard's Suicide in B Flat at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco and in The Blood Knot at the off-Broadway's Roundabout Theatre.

For his work in Lethal Weapon, Glover was presented with the NAACP Image Award. He received his second Image Award as well as an ACE Award for his performance in HBO's 1987 presentation of Mandela, filmed in Zimbabwe. He went on to star in the PBS production of A Raisin in the Sun, and also appeared in one of television's highest-rated mini-series Lonesome Dove, for which he earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor.

In 1990, Glover starred in Charles Burnett's award-winning and critically acclaimed To Sleep With Anger, playing a character whose ambivalent conflict between his good and dark sides brings three generations of a contemporary black family to a dangerous crossroads. The film marked Glover's debut as an executive producer and landed him the Independent Feature Project/West's Best Actor award as well as a NAACP Image Award nomination.

Glover has executive produced HBO's recent America's Dream, series for Black History Month, as well as the upcoming HBO-BBC movie Deadly Voyage, based on the true story of eight African stowaways who were slaughtered on the high seas by a Ukrainian freighter crew in 1992.

Most recently, Glover starred in and executive produced the critically acclaimed TNT Feature Buffalo Soldiers, a dramatic story of American's first all-black cavalry unit. He also completed filming a starring role in the film Beloved opposite Oprah Winfrey for director Jonathan Demme. He has just completed filming a Spike Lee produced film 3AM with Pam Grier.