Richard T. Jones

About

Richard Timothy Jones (born January 16, 1972) is an American actor. He has worked in film and television since the early 1990s. His television roles include Ally McBeal (1997), Judging Amy (1999–2005), CSI: Miami (2006), Girlfriends (2007), Grey’s Anatomy (2010), Hawaii Five-0 (2011–2014), Narcos (2015), and Criminal Minds (2017). Since 2018, he has played Police Lieutenant Wade Grey on the ABC police drama The Rookie.
His film roles include portrayals of Lamont Carr in Disney’s Full Court Miracle (2003), Laveinio “Slim” Hightower in Rick Famuyiwa’s coming-of-age film The Wood (1999), Mike in Tyler Perry’s dramatic films Why Did I Get Married? (2007) and Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010), and Captain Russell Hampton in the Hollywood blockbuster Godzilla (2014).

Jones was born in Kobe, Japan, to African-American parents and grew up in Carson, California. He is the son of Lorene, a computer analyst, and Clarence Jones, a professional baseball player who at the time of Richard’s birth was playing for the Nankai Hawks in Osaka. He has an older brother, Clarence Jones Jr., who works as a high school basketball coach. They returned to North America after Clarence’s retirement…