D.B. WOODSIDE — AMENADIEL FROM LUCIFER
3 min readFeb 6, 2021
D.B. WOODSIDE — AMENADIEL FROM LUCIFER
- David Bryan Woodside born on July 25, 1969.
- Woodside has a daughter with actress Golden Brooks born in September 2009.
- Woodside studied and graduated from the State University of New York, Albany with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He later graduated from Yale University with a Masters of Fine Arts. (MFA).
- Woodside is a married man. He dated his longtime girlfriend, Golden Brooks, for a long time before they tied the knot in the year 2009.
- The couple also has one child, a daughter; Dakota Tao Brooks Woodside born on September 1, 2009.
- He is an American actor, perhaps best known for his portrayal of the White House Chief of Staff and later President Wayne Palmer on the Fox action/drama series 24.
- Additionally, he is noted for his roles as the bass singer Melvin Franklin in the NBC miniseries The Temptations, and starring as Robin Wood on the WB/UPN series Buffy the Vampire Slayer in their seventh season, as Malcolm Franks in Single Ladies, and as Dr. Joseph Prestridge on Parenthood.
- He played SEC Prosecutor Jeff Malone in the fourth season of Suits and plays the angel Amenadiel in the Fox/Netflix original series Lucifer.
- He got his start in the second season of Murder One in 1996, playing Aaron Mosley. After that series’ cancellation, he guest-starred on The Practice, Snoops, The Division, and Once and Again.
- He made a guest appearance on JAG in its final season as FBI Agent Rod Benton.
- From 2002–03, Woodside starred in 14 episodes of the final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Principal Robin Wood, Buffy’s boss and son of a Slayer.
- He followed this up in the following television season, playing the pragmatic Wayne Palmer, the Chief of Staff and brother to President David Palmer on the Fox series 24. Introduced in the third season, he returned to reprise the role as a guest star in the series’ fifth season in episodes 1–2 and 14–18 and returned as a series regular for the sixth season as the President of the United States.
- He had a guest role as Marlon Waylord in the 2004 CSI episode “Harvest”.
- In 2007, he was a guest star on the TV show Grey’s Anatomy in the show’s 4th-season episode “Forever Young” wherein he played the character of Marcus.
- Woodside also guest-starred as a doctor in the series finale of the USA Network series Monk. He had a recurring role on the CW series Hellcats. In 2009, he starred in the first series of the US drama Lie to Me.
- He did star as Malcolm Franks on the VH1 series Single Ladies, playing opposite Lisa Raye McCoy as Keisha Greene.
- In June 2014, he began appearing in Suits as Jeff Malone, alongside his 24 co-stars Gina Torres.
- He currently plays the angel Amenadiel in the Netflix original series Lucifer (2016–present).
- Amenadiel is an angel. Lucifer’s older brother, and the eldest of all their siblings. His physical powers are similar to Lucifer’s, and he can also stop time. He arrives in Los Angeles to encourage Lucifer to go back to Hell, and failing that, he attempts to force Lucifer back in different ways. He grows closer to Lucifer through the seasons, through various circumstances.
- Unlike Lucifer, Amenadiel has always followed God’s orders but comes to question his life-choices as events on Earth make him lose power and his wings in season 2, sending him into a personal crisis where he tries to find himself.
- Amenadiel learns the necklace given to him by his father was the key to the Flaming Sword, which was entrusted to his cherished son, indicating that he himself is God’s favorite angel and not Lucifer as he had always believed.
- At the end of the third season, Amenadiel regains his wings after witnessing Charlotte’s death and takes her soul to heaven.
- DB Woodside’s estimated Net Worth is $1 Million — $5 Million.