Karim Dulé Hill (born May 3, 1975) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Josiah Bartlet's personal presidential aide (body man) Charlie Young on the NBC drama television series The West Wing, and as pharmaceutical salesman-turned-detective Burton "Gus" Guster on the USA Network television comedy-drama Psych. He has also had minor roles in the movies Holes and She's All That. On September 24, 2009, he was elected to a three-year ...
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Karim Dulé Hill (born May 3, 1975) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Josiah Bartlet's personal presidential aide (body man) Charlie Young on the NBC drama television series The West Wing, and as pharmaceutical salesman-turned-detective Burton "Gus" Guster on the USA Network television comedy-drama Psych. He has also had minor roles in the movies Holes and She's All That. On September 24, 2009, he was elected to a three-year term on the National Board of the Screen Actors Guild.
Hill was born in East Brunswick, New Jersey, to Jamaican parents Jennifer, an education consultant, and Bert Hill, an investment banker. He was raised in Sayreville, New Jersey. He studied tap dance from an early age, and performed in the musical The Tap Dance Kid as Savion Glover's understudy on Broadway, and then played the part on the show's national tour. Hill graduated from Sayreville War Memorial High School, in Sayreville, New Jersey, in 1993. Hill studied acting at William Esper...
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