At the time of his graduation from NYU, La Salle was cast in
Joseph Papp's
Shakespeare in the Park production of
Henry V. While being interviewed by
Johnnie Cochran on
Johnnie Cochran Tonight, La Salle commented, "We have to take care of the message that we're sending as
African-Americans or any other group of minorities, that we have the exact same type of exchanges with our mates that we get to see our White counterparts have." In subsequent episodes, Benton was shown to be compassionate to his former girlfriend, Jeanie and offering his surgical skills pro bono to a young girl left disfigured by a dog attack. On January 31, 2003, he made a
cameo appearance in
Biker Boyz as Slick Will, a mechanic. He played a Jamaican gangster in the independent film
Johnny Was opposite
Vinnie Jones,
Samantha Mumba,
Lennox Lewis, and
Roger Daltrey. La Salle lived in
Belfast for four weeks while filming the movie, which he supported at the premiere of the film during the 2006
American Black Film Festival in Miami. La Salle starred in the
Hallmark Channel original movie,
Relative Stranger, which premiered on March 14, 2009. Also in the movie were
Cicely Tyson and La Salle's former
ER castmates
Michael Michele (Dr.
Cleo Finch) and
Michael Beach (Al Boulet). In 2010, La Salle played the United Nations Secretary General in the
series finale of
24, and guest-starred in an episode of
Covert Affairs in August of the same year. In 2011, he played two recurring roles: first as a Caribbean community leader who rallied against the product Rasta Monsta in HBO's
How to Make it in America, the second as the neuropsychiatrist E-Mo in CBS'
A Gifted Man. In 1996, La Salle began his directorial career with his debut in the
HBO made-for-TV movie
Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault, starring
Don Cheadle,
James Earl Jones and
Forest Whitaker. Shortly after that, La Salle directed the pilot for
Soul Food: The Series on
Showtime. In 2002, he produced the feature film
The Salton Sea. That same year, he produced, directed and starred in the movie
Crazy as Hell. In 2003 he wrote, directed and starred in "
Memphis", an episode of
The Twilight Zone. He directed the 2012 Hallmark Channel movie
Playing Father, and multiple episodes of
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,
CSI: NY,
Ringer, and NBC's spinoff
Law & Order: Organized Crime. La Salle's first novel,
Laws of Depravity, was published in 2012. In 2015, La Salle returned to television with a role in
Under the Domes third season, after directing one episode of the second season. He also directed an episode in the third season. He both acted in and directed episodes of
CSI: Cyber. He performed in other series, such as
The Night Shift and
Madam Secretary. In 2016, La Salle directed the episode "Wingman" in the Fox series
Lucifer and the episode "Black and Blue" of TNT's
Murder in the First. He co-starred as Will Munson in the 2017 superhero film
Logan. La Salle also directed and produced multiple episodes of
Chicago P.D. throughout its many seasons. == Filmography ==