Bio: Shemar Franklin Moore (born April 20, 1970) is an American actor and former fashion model. His notable roles are that of Malcolm Winters on The Young and the Restless from 1994 to 2005, Derek Morgan on CBS's Criminal Minds from 2005 to 2016, and as the third permanent host of Soul Train from 1999 to 2003.
Tivia: His mother, a math teacher, moved the family to Denmark when he was six months old for about three years. After that they lived in Bahrain until Shemar was about six years old, where he attended a British private school.Graduated from Santa Clara (CA) University, where he majored in communications and played varsity baseball.He is the son of Marilyn J. (Wilson) and Franklin Sherrod Moore. His father is African-American and his mother was of half Irish and half French-Canadian descent. All of his maternal great-grandparents were born in Canada, in New Brunswick and Newfoundland on his grandfather's side and in St-Didace, Qu��bec on his grandmother's.Presented Susan Lucci with her very first (and so far only) Daytime Emmy award for her 19th nomination. After reading the card and before announcing her name, he shouted, "The streak is over!".Was a Weakest Link (2001) contestant and was voted off.Attended Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, CA, graduating in 1988.Credits Jeanne Cooper as his favorite acting mentor and Don Cornelius as his favorite television mentor.Has two dogs: Shug and Moe.Before he hosted Soul Train (1971), he used to watch it as a one-year-old boy, when it was hosted by Don Cornelius.Once revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) that, in high school, he and his friends referred to his curly long hair in the back as "Curls for the Girls!".His uncle, Stephen Wilson, is a teacher at Watertown High School in Watertown, MA..Father, with girlfriend Denise, of daughter Frankie Moore [May, 2023].