Carl Gilliard

Carl Gilliard
Actor, Producer, Director, Writer, Educator, Entertainment Consultant


Carl Rousseau Gilliard is the President/CEO of the Gilliard Media Group, LLC (GMG), based in Atlanta, Georgia. GMG provides consulting, casting, media content creation, publishing, coaching and entertainment production services. His wife, Latonya Gilliard, serves as Vice President of Operations.

Carl is also the Co-Creator of the Bill Duke Media Foundation's Youth Media Camp, a non-profit organization with a distinct emphasis on offering new media arts and financial literacy to inner-city youth, ages 15 thru 18, in South Los Angeles, California.

Carl is a graduate of Michigan State University, and a native of Detroit, Michigan, by way of Chicago, Illinois. Moving to California, he dove into acting and landed many television and film roles, which facilitated his masterful skills in networking and forming relationships that catapulted him into becoming extremely well-respected in the industry.

Carl has numerous film credits, including: Inception (Warner Bros),
Red Eye (DreamWorks), Coach Carter (Paramount), and many television credits, including: Shameless, Greys Anatomy, Amazon’s The Last Tycoon and most recently, FBI: Most Wanted, just to name a few.

Mr Gilliard is presently recurring on the hit action/drama, The Family Business, now streaming on BET+. Carl has appeared in dozens of independent short and feature films.

He is also the Creator, Writer, Executive Producer and Star of the HIT digital series, Two Degrees.

Along with starring on the large and small screens, Carl has appeared in dozens of stage plays, including Ninth Wave, South Of Where We Live, The River Niger, Waiting For The Rain, The Living Quarters, and Sweet Lucy's Love Lounge.

Carl is an accomplished NAACP Theater Award nominated Producer and Director. He produced and directed, Section 8, Power Couple Struggle, and Peace Be Still in Los Angeles. Carl also produced Steel Magnolias, and co-produced and developed the highly successful, Things That Make Men Cry, for the FCBC Repertory Company, the drama ministry at Faithful Central Bible Church that he founded in 2006 and led for 10 years.

Carl resides in the metropolitan Atlanta area with his wife and business partner, Latonya Gilliard. His children include Corinne Gilliard, an EXECUTIVE at HIGHER GROUND, Colin Gilliard, Musician/Director, and three Bonus children, Raven, Joshua & Jordan.