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Geoffrey Holder was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, in 1930 and educated at Queens Royal College. Holder's first professional dancing gig was in his brother Roscoe's traveling troupe. He toured the West Indies and Puerto Rico before making his New York stage debut in the 1954 Broadway musical House of Flowers. His subsequent stage work has earned him numerous awards, including two Tonys -- one for direction, the other for costume design -- for 1974's The Wiz.
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Holder's film roles leaned towards the exotic, e.g. Baron Samedi in the 1973 James Bond thriller Live and Let Die, and Punjab in Annie (1981). He is best known to TV fans for his series of the mid-1970's Seven Up commercials, in which he elegantly and laughingly extolled the virtues of "Un-Cola Nuts." Outside of his theatrical and film accomplishments, Holder is an accomplished painter and author. His works have been showcased in several major international exhibitions.
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