Miss J. had an exclusive chat with Actor Henry Simmons who plays Ellis Moran on the OWN anthology “Cherish The Day“. Check out what Henry had to say about being offered the role as the leading Man in a drama series and what it means to him to cherish the day.
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ABOUT ‘CHERISH THE DAY’: Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on OWN
“Cherish the Day” is an anthology series that chronicles the relationship of one couple. In season two, the rekindling of a romance is told — the love story of Ellis Moran (Henry Simmons) and Sunday St. James (Joy Bryant), who fell in love in high school but find themselves reunited in beautiful New Orleans. Ellis is a former basketball player who is now a single father of two, and Sunday is a vegetarian celebrity chef on the cusp of fame. Mandeville “MV” St. James (Richard Roundtree) is a proud, loving, wry-humored former judge and widowed father of Sunday, and Anastasia (Terri J. Vaughn) is Ellis’ soon-to-be ex-wife and the mother of their children.
Created and produced by Ava DuVernay, “Cherish the Day” is produced for OWN by ARRAY Filmworks and Harpo Films in association with Warner Bros. Television. DuVernay, Paul Garnes, Raynelle Swilling, Teri Schaffer, and Oprah Winfrey serve as executive producers. Swilling, who won the 2020 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Television) for “Cherish the Day,” and Schaffer are co-showrunners of season two.
ABOUT HENRY SIMMONS
Henry Simmons currently stars in season two of OWN’s anthology series “Cherish The Day” as Ellis Moran. He spent the last seven years starring on the ABC series “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” as agent Alphonso Mackenzie. Previously, he was a series regular on the CBS legal drama “Shark” as well as the classic police procedural “NYPD Blues,” created by Steven Bohco, for the show’s final six seasons.
Check out the below clip from tonights episode 206 – “Sands for shores”
