Eli Harris is an award winning actor and director in the film industry. Originally from Lynchburg, Virginia, he started his career at age 6 doing theater for the Cherry Tree players. He did theater throughout his school years. He later joined the military to serve his country. He got out in 1998 after the loss of his mother. He then moved to Detroit where he started doing theater again, getting his first break in a music video with Willie Max and singer Raphael Saadiq. He took a brief hiatus after that to start his family.Picking up where he left off in 2003, he became SAG after getting a brief part on ABC's short lived Line Of Fire, then went on to get a feature role as the police negotiator on CBS's Hack. He was also mentored by the late actor Carl Anderson.