Jon Michael Hill

Hill^[1] played football and the saxophone during his high school years before focusing on pursuing an acting career, attending a summer drama program at Northwestern University.^[2] graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.^[2] While at the university, he appeared in stage productions of King Lear, Six Degrees of Separation and Ain't Misbehavin'.^[2]

Hill played the role of Puck in the 2007 Shakespeare in the Park production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.^[3] In 2009, Hill was nominated for the Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for The Tempest at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. In 2010, Hill was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Play in Superior Donuts opposite Michael McKean.^[4] In the same year, he began his role as Detective Damon Washington in the ABC police drama Detroit 1-8-7.

Hill's other television credits include Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Person of Interest, and Eastbound & Down. He then went on to star in the CBS series Elementary, wherein he played the role of Detective Marcus Bell. In 2018, he made his directorial debut with the Elementary episode "The Worms Crawl In, the Worms Crawl Out".^[5][6]

In 2025, Hill received his second Tony Award nomination for Best Actor for his role in the play Purpose. The play also won the Tony Award for Best Play.^[7]

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	The Last Stain	Brodsky	Short film
2011	Falling Overnight	Troy
2015	Standing8	Abdul	Short film
2016	No Pay, Nudity	New Kid
	In the Radiant City	Richard Gonzalez
2018	Pass Over	Moses
	Widows	Reverend Wheeler
2020	Sanctuary	Reggie	Short film

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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010–2011	Detroit 1-8-7	Detective Damon Washington	Main cast; 18 episodes
2011	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Tre Davis	Episode: "Spiraling Down"
2012	Eastbound & Down	Darnell	6 episodes
	Person of Interest	Curtis	Episode: "Wolf and Cub"
2012–2019	Elementary	Detective Marcus Bell	153 episodes; also director of "The Worms Crawl In, the Worms Crawl Out"
2020	The Good Fight	Jumaane Jenkins	Episode: "The Gang Is Satirized and Doesn't Like It"
2022	The Accidental Wolf		Episode: "Abyss"
2022–2023	61st Street	Pastor Richards	9 episodes
2024	A Man in Full	Conrad Hensley	Main cast

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