Wolé Parks

Personal context

Summary

Wolé Parks is an actor known for roles in Devious Maids, The Vampire Diaries, and Superman & Lois, with credits across drama, comedy, crime, and superhero television. He has described the importance of black and gay representation on screen and has spoken about combating HIV stigma. Parks has ridden in AIDS/LifeCycle fundraisers and has publicly identified as a black gay man. A 2012 profile described him as an active member of Democracy for NYC, a group formed by supporters of Howard Dean’s presidential campaign; no public record of broader partisan campaigning or other identity-based advocacy is established.