- Trained as a dancer.
- The first black actor to play Othello at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
- Began his career as a dancer, but when a leg operation forced him to give it up, he turned to his second love: acting.
- Studied to become a social worker.
- He was inspired to become an actor after seeing Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night (1967).
- Married to novelist Sandra Walker.
- Founded the Flipside Theatre Company in London.
- His father is from Grenada and his mother is from Trinidad.
- Attended the University of North London.
- Walker had praised his acting mentor and best friend Rita Moreno for his humble beginnings as an actor.
- He has three children, two of them are twins.
- He was nominated for a 2016 Joseph Jefferson (Equity) Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Between Riverside and Crazy" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.
- Made his London stage debut in the play Labelled With Love.
- Mentors were screenwriter Lynda La Plante, and actor Robert David MacDonald.
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