Bill Nunn III was born in
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, the son of Frances Nunn and
William G. Nunn, Jr., a journalist and editor at the
Pittsburgh Courier and a
National Football League scout. His paternal grandfather was the first
African American football player at
George Westinghouse High School. While
ball boys for the
Pittsburgh Steelers, Bill Nunn and current Steelers president
Art Rooney II stole
"Mean" Joe Greene's car during training camp at
Saint Vincent College in
Latrobe, Pennsylvania. "Joe Greene showed up in a beautiful green
Lincoln Continental, and me and Bill Nunn, Jr. were ball boys. Somehow Bill got the keys one night and we decided to take it for a ride. We only told Joe that story about 10 years ago. We figured that enough time had passed that we could disclose our little
joy ride." He attended college with
Spike Lee and appeared in several of Lee's early feature films. ==Career==