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| | Cleavant Derricks |
 | | The actor "could never have told you at the beginning that I was going to be doing Sliders for five seasons." But he has rarely been able to predict the course of his career, which encompasses featured roles in the Robin Williams movie Moscow on the Hudson and in Neil Simon’s The Slugger’s Wife. |
 | | The father of two boys and two girls ages 14, 12, ten, and five, the actor laughed that "the only ten-year plan I have is getting my kids through college!" He sobered a bit when asked about whether Hollywood has become an easier place for minority actors to work. |
 | | "There are a lot of actors who are here and in New York who have really worked hard, they've gone to school, they've studied, they've spent a lot of years in the trenches to express themselves as actors," he observed. |
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