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Carlton Wilborn (born 1964) is an American dancer, actor, author, and motivational teacher. He was a principal dancer for Madonna's Blond Ambition World Tour and The Girlie Show World Tour, and appeared in her Blond Ambition Tour documentary Madonna: Truth or Dare.

Early life

Born on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, he attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, where he was in dance classes with Michelle Obama.

Career

At the age of 17, he became a principal dancer in Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Wilborn is one of seven dancers from the Madonna 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour, and is seen in the reunion documentary Strike a Pose (2016).

Personal life

Wilborn is bisexual and was diagnosed with HIV in 1985, which he kept a secret while touring with Madonna.

Filmography

Film


Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Dance	Nicholas	TV movie
1990	Without You I'm Nothing	Ballet Dancer
1993	Grief	Jeremy
1993	Demolition Man	Wasteland Scrap
1994	In the Army Now	Reserve Soldier #2
1994	The Privilege Cage	Daniel	Short
1995	Dead Presidents	Spyder
1996	Deadly Web	Sullivan	TV movie
1999	Guinevere	Jay
	The Velvet Club	Emcee	Short
	Made Men	Felix
	Tuesdays with Morrie	Eddie	TV movie
2001	MacArthur Park	St. Louis
2004	True Vinyl	Travis Smith
2005	Guess Who	Dancer
2006	The Hoax	Bahamas Desk Clerk
	The Ten Commandments: The Musical	Ensemble
	Yellow	Broadway Choreographer
2008	An American Carol	Parent
2012	The Boarder	Zeb Williams
2013	Breakout	Max
2015	The Better Half	LeDawn
2018	Beautiful Boy	Vince
2021	Disciple	Donovan	Short

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	L.A. Law	Oz Wilson	Episode: "Do the Spike Thing"
1995	The Marshal	-	Episode: "'65-'95"
1996–97	L.A. Firefighters	Firefighter Ray Grimes	Main Cast
1997	NYPD Blue	Bluestone	Episode: "Tom and Geri"
1997–98	Fame L.A.	Robert Hawkins	Recurring Cast
1998	Nash Bridges	Paul Avery	Episode: "Apocalypse Nash"
1998	V.I.P.	Wilgan	Episode: "Scents and Sensibility"
1999	Chicago Hope	Jerry Lawrence	Episode: "Playing Through"
2000	The Huntress	Michael Maine	Episode: "Springing Tiny"
2001	NYPD Blue	Maurice Carlisle	Episode: "Cops and Robber"
2001	Becker	Mr. Ellison	Episode: "The Ghost of Christmas Presents"
2003	CSI: Miami	Brian Davidson	Episode: "Entrance Wound"
2003	The Practice	Lewis Nyler	Episode: "The Making of a Trial Attorney"
2007	Lincoln Heights	Washburn	Episode: "Missing"
2007	Viva Laughlin	Security Guard	Episode: "What a Whale Wants"
2012	The Mentalist	Glennda Snow	Episode: "Ruby Slippers"
2013	Bunheads	Choreographer	Episode: "Next"
2014	NCIS	Charles Garrett	Episode: "Double Back"
2016	Bosch	I.A. Capt. Larry Williams	Episode: "Heart Attack"
2017	Chronicles of Jessica Wu	Bruce Lockwood	Recurring Cast: Season 1

Video Game

Year	Title	Role
2011	L.A. Noire	Monty Reynolds (voice)

Music Video

Year	Artist	Title
1990	Madonna	"Vogue"
1990	Janet Jackson	"Love Will Never Do (Without You)"
2020	Joyner Lucas	"Revenge"

Documentary


Year	Title
1991	Madonna: Truth or Dare
2016	Strike a Pose

References

^ ^a ^b "From Madonna to Hollywood: Coming Out and Learning to Thrive With HIV". 10 February 2014.
^ "FVM Global". fvmglobalmagazine.com.
^ ""Living Front and Center" with Carlton Wilborn". BlogTalkRadio.
^ Sanchez, Charles (3 April 2017). "Daring to Be Truthful: Madonna's Dancers and HIV". TheBody. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
^ Kelly, Ben (7 September 2017). "Madonna's Blond Ambition dancer Carlton: 'I hid my HIV status from everyone on tour'". Attitude. Retrieved 19 September 2024.

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[FromMadonnaToHollywood-1] "From Madonna to Hollywood: Coming Out and Learning to Thrive With HIV". 10 February 2014.

[2] "FVM Global". fvmglobalmagazine.com.

[3] ""Living Front and Center" with Carlton Wilborn". BlogTalkRadio.

[4] Sanchez, Charles (3 April 2017). "Daring to Be Truthful: Madonna's Dancers and HIV". TheBody. Retrieved 19 September 2024.

[5] Kelly, Ben (7 September 2017). "Madonna's Blond Ambition dancer Carlton: 'I hid my HIV status from everyone on tour'". Attitude. Retrieved 19 September 2024.