Dennis Haysbert
Dennis Dexter Haysbert (born June 2, 1954) is an American film and television actor. He is known for portraying Nelson Mandela in Goodbye Bafana, baseball player Pedro Cerrano in the Major League film trilogy, President David Palmer on the American television series 24, and Sergeant Major Jonas Blane in The Unit, as well as his work in commercials for Allstate insurance. He is also known for his authoritative, bass voice.
In 1989, Haysbert got his first major film role portraying Pedro Cerrano, a voodoo-practicing Cuban refugee baseball player, in the movie Major League. In it, he uttered the memorable line: “Is very bad to steal Jobu’s rum; is very bad”. Haysbert followed that up with a role in 1990’s Navy SEALs, which also starred Charlie Sheen, before moving on to another baseball movie, Mr. Baseball with Tom Selleck. In 1992, he co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in Love Field, a film about a series of events occurring contemporaneously with the assassination and funeral of President John F. Kennedy.
In 1994, Haysbert reprised his role as Cerrano in Major League II. This was followed by low key appearances in Waiting to Exhale, Heat, and Absolute Power. In 1998, Haysbert made another appearance as Cerrano in Major League: Back to the Minors. In 1999, Haysbert played a police detective in three different films: The Minus Man, The Thirteenth Floor, and Random Hearts.
In 2002, Haysbert played the role of gardener Raymond Deagan in Far From Heaven. He won three awards (Satellite Award, Black Reel Award, and Washington DC Area Film Critics 
Association Award) for Best Supporting Actor for that role. In 2005, he had a supporting role in Sam Mendes’s film, Jarhead. In 2007, Haysbert returned to the big screen to portray Nelson Mandela in Goodbye Bafana and an FBI agent in Breach.
Haysbert is the official spokesman for the Allstate Insurance Company. His commercials typically end with one of the two Allstate Corporation official slogans, either Are you in good hands? or That’s Allstate’s stand. More recently however his commercials have combined the two with “That’s Allstate’s stand. Are you in good hands?”. Haysbert also voices the Military Channel’s commercials with their official slogan: “The Military Channel — Go Behind the Lines.”
In addition to his acting, Haysbert has also done voice work for various video games, most notably as Irving Lambert in the second installment of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell and narrator of Call of Duty: Finest Hour. He also voiced David Palmer in 24: The Game.
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