Dulé Hill
Dulé Hill is an actor, born 1975.
The earliest credit our catalog holds for Dulé Hill is Sugar Hill (1994), where he plays the teenage version of the film's lead, followed by New York News (1995) and Preston in She's All That (1999). Then came the job that defined the first half of his career.
On The West Wing he was Charlie Young, personal aide to the president and later Deputy Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff, a part that put him in the room for other people's arguments and required him to play listening as an activity. It brought an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Psych gave him the second half: Burton "Gus" Guster, a pharmaceutical salesman press-ganged into private detective work, plus three films of afterlife in Psych: The Movie (2017), Lassie Come Home (2020) and This Is Gus (2021). The pattern across both shows is consistent. He gets cast as the sane one, and being the sane one beside a partner who never stops talking is harder than it looks, because the comedy and the drama both have to come off your reactions.
The later work spreads out: Larry Siefert on Ballers, Alex Williams for the final two seasons of Suits, Bill Williams in the 2021 remake of The Wonder Years, Omar Campbell in Bel-Air, Brandon Drysdale in Good American Family (2025), and voice work in Muppet Babies and Night of the Animated Dead. The small film part people quote back at him is Sam the Onion Man in Holes.
Movies (17)
- Men of Honor (2000)
- The Guardian (2006)
- She's All That (1999)
- Holes (2003)
- Hypnotic (2021)
- Psych: The Movie (2017)
- Locked Down (2021)
- Night of the Animated Dead (2021)
- Whisper (2007)
- Lulu Is a Rhinoceros (2025)
- Psych 2: Lassie Come Home (2020)
- Sexual Life (2005)
- Edmond (2006)
- Psych 3: This Is Gus (2021)
- Sugar Hill (1994)
- Gayby (2012)
- Gravy (2015)
TV (15)
Where to start with Dulé Hill
Two shows, and which you start with says more about you than about him. The West Wing is the dramatic case: Charlie Young arrives as an errand and becomes a person, and Hill plays the whole thing on restraint.
Psych is the comic case and the more purely enjoyable watch, a long-running double act where he is the one being dragged into things. If it lands, Psych: The Movie and the sequels that followed are more of the same and unembarrassed about it.
For films, Holes is the one to see, a genuinely good children's adventure with him as Sam the Onion Man. She's All That is the teen-movie artefact, Suits picks him up for its final two seasons, and Bel-Air and The Wonder Years are the recent television, where he has moved into playing fathers and men with authority.