Sean Blakemore

Sean Blakemore
Sean Blakemore
Born	August 10, 1967 (age 56); St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Nadyia Jones (m. 2010)
Children	1

Sean Blakemore (born August 10, 1967) is an American actor who is portraying Shawn Butler on the ABC daytime drama General Hospital, a role he began playing on January 21, 2011 on a recurring basis. Blakemore was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role on General Hospital in 2012 and won the award in 2016. On April 6, 2011, he signed a contract with ABC to continue his role full-time.^[1]^[2]

Early life

Blakemore was born on August 10, 1967, the fifth of seven children (five girls and two boys) from a single parent household, in St. Louis, Missouri.^[3] He has one brother, Ronnell, and five sisters, Kim, Sharon, Yvonne, Yvette, and Rechelle.^[4]

He attended Hazelwood East High School in his hometown of St. Louis. Blakemore was a successful model, then moved to Los Angeles on July 19, 1998, to become an actor.^[3]

Career

Blakemore has appeared on episodes on such series as ER, Monk, The Shield, Cold Case, NCIS and Bones. He won Auds honors at the Hollywood Black Film Festival for his portrayal of Ric Jackson in the independent romantic drama Big Ain't Bad.

Blakemore also appeared in the 2002 film Dahmer, and TV movies Motives 2: Retribution, and Blackout.^[5]

In 2011, Blakemore joined the cast of General Hospital in the role of Shawn Butler.^[6]^[7] In 2015, he exited the role;^[8] he later reprised the role for guest appearances in November 2015 and April 2016.^[9]^[10] Blakemore returned to the role in April 2021.^[11]

Personal life

Blakemore married Nadyia Jones on June 19, 2010.^[12] In late March 2013, it was announced that the couple were having their first baby.^[13] In May 2013, the Blakemores had a daughter.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Soul of the Game	Grace's husband	TV movie
2000	The Playaz Court	Officer Jones
2000	Playing with Fire	Eric Konadu	TV movie ^[14]
2001	Can't Let Go	David	Short
2002	Big Ain't Bad	Ric	^[15]
2002	Dahmer	Corliss
2003	Keepin' It Real	Richard
2003	Momentum	Floor Cop #2	TV movie ^[16]
2004	Woman Thou Art Loosed	Pervis	^[17]
2004	Motives	Brandon	Video
2006	Restraining Order	Dontae McNeil
2006	Hot Tamale	Dewayne Longfellow	^[18]
2007	Motives 2	Brandon Collier ^[19]	Video
	Young Cesar	-
	Blackout	James	^[20]
2008	Columbus Day	Officer Walters
	The Porter	Arthur Dodd	Short
	Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club	Police Photographer	Video
	The Inspiration of Barack	Derek	Short
2010	Butterfly Rising	Jacob
2011	Church Girl	Jacob	^[21]
2013	Star Trek Into Darkness	Klingon	^[22]
2014	The Fright Night Files	Lockwood Masters	TV movie ^[23]
2015	Fear Files	Lockwood Masters	TV movie ^[23]
2016	Pet	Detective Meara
	Cursed Angel	John Washington	TV movie
	Diva Diaries	Derrick
2018	Spinning Man	Killian
2018	One Crazy Christmas	Glen
2019	Lethalz	David Claude	Short
2019	Ad Astra	Willie Levant
2020	Close Up	Sheriff Griff	TV movie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	The District	Achmed Ali	Episode: "Free-Fire Zone"
2003	General Hospital	Chase Wright	Episode: "Episode #1.10396" & "Episode #1.10400"
2004	Monk	Spyder Cell Guard	Episode: "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail"
2004	The Young and the Restless	Ben	Regular Cast
2005	Cold Case	Clyde (63)	Episode: "Strange Fruit"
	The Shield	John Sullivan	Episode: "Hurt"
	Into the West	Ben Franklin	Episode: "Wheel to the Stars"
	The O.C.	Trauma Doctor	Episode: "The Aftermath"
2006	The Unit	African Soldier	Episode: "Stress"
	Invasion	Coast Guard Lt.	Episode: "Re-Evolution"
	CSI: NY	Nick Davis	Episode: "Raising Shane"
2007	ER	Mario	Episode: "From Here to Paternity"
2007	K-Ville	Ken	Episode: "AKA"
2008-09	Bones	Grayson Barasa	Recurring cast: season 4
2008-09	Days of Our Lives	Peter/Barney Bateman	Regular Cast
2009	Lie to Me	FBI Agent Irving	Episode: "Tractor Man"
2010	Stargate Universe	Reginald Greer	Episode: "Lost" & "Pain"
2011	NCIS	Navy Chief Petty Officer Jerome Carr	Episode: "Recruited"
2011-22	General Hospital	Shawn Butler	Regular Cast
2014	The Rickey Smiley Show	Charles	Episode: "Go Home, Sister Bernice"
2015-16	CSI: Cyber	Director Marcus Silver	Recurring cast: Season 2
2016	Bosch	Captain John Felton	Recurring cast: season 2
	Devious Maids	Reverend James Hamilton	Recurring cast: Season 4
	Hawaii Five-0	Supervisor Keith Harlan	Episode: "Ka makuahine a me ke keikikane"
2017	American Crime	Reggie Pollard	Recurring cast: season 3
2017-18	The Quad	Eugene Hardwick	Main cast
2018	Saints & Sinners	Pastor Daniel Byrd	Episode: "Buried Secrets"
	Scorpion	Captain Dan Drake	Episode: "Kenny and the Jet"
	13 Reasons Why	Mr. Cole	Episode: "The Drunk Slut" & "The Second Polaroid"
	American Horror Story: Apocalypse	Cooperative Agent	Episode: "The End"
2018-20	Greenleaf	Phillip "Phil" DeMars	Guest: season 3, recurring cast: season 4-5
2019	Lethal Weapon	Barrett	Episode: "Dial M for Murtaugh"
2019	The Bay	Tony Foster	Episode: "The Getaway"
2020	MacGyver	President Danny Linson	Episode: "Loyalty + Family + Rogue + Hellfire"
2020	Two Degrees	Sean	Episode: "DATING MYself"

Awards and nominations

List of acting awards and nominations
Year	Award	Category	Title	Result	Ref.
2012	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	General Hospital	Nominated	^[24]
2016	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	General Hospital	Won	^[25]^[26]

References

External links

"Interview with Sean Blakemore", Screenplayers
Sean Blakemore at IMDb

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Sean Blakemore
Born	(1967-08-10) August 10, 1967 (age 56) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Nadyia Jones (m. 2010)
Children	1