Biography

Hailing from Columbia, South Carolina, Nate Bynum is an American actor known for his extensive work in TV & Film. His onscreen scene partners include Oscar winners Viola Davis and Matt Damon, and Emmy/Golden Globe winners Woody Harrelson, Andy Samberg, Patrick Dempsey and many more. He is very proud of his uncredited role in Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters as the son of SAG Life Achievement Award winner, Ruby Dee, and brother of acting legend Diahann Carroll. Bynum is best known for his work in Iron Man 3 (2013), My Dog Skip (2000), The Rainmaker (1997), and a recurring role as Coach Velazquez on the television series, Crash (2009). As a first-generation college student, Nate achieved an MFA in Acting from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and went on to become a tenured professor at both Mississippi State University and the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). At UNLV, he founded the acting for the camera curriculum which has become the springboard for a number of young actors working in TV and film. He is married to Dr. Linda Lister.
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Bynum created the screen-acting program at University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV).

In 1997, while an assistant professor at Mississippi State University, Nate booked a role in the feature film, The Rainmaker, shooting in Memphis, TN., and starring a young actor named Matt Damon. Damon promised to do a guest-appearance at Nate's university if he were ever back in the area. By 2001, Nate was an associate professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and Damon was in Vegas shooting the feature film, Ocean's 11. Nate contacted the Oscar-winner and Damon showed up and gave a 2-hour long question and answer session on whatever the students thought to ask.

Holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting degree from Southern Illinois-University. Has the distinction of having been granted tenure (lifetime employment) at two different universities: Mississippi State University and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV).

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