Biography
David Ramsey is best known to TV audiences as bodyguard John Diggle (aka Spartan) on the hit CTV television series Arrow.
Originally from Detroit, appeared on the?UPN?sitcom?Good News, starring as Pastor David Randolph. He has appeared alongside Nicholas Cage in Con Air (1997) as Londell and starred as?Muhammad Ali?in the?Fox?television movie?Ali: An American Hero (2000). He has had several recurring roles on popular television programs including CW’s All of Us,?The West Wing,?CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,?Ghost Whisperer,?Wildfire?and?Hollywood Residential. In 2008 to 2009, he appeared in Dexter?as Anton Briggs, a confidential informant who has an affair with?Debra Morgan. Since 2011, he’s had a recurring role as Mayor Carter Poole on Blue Bloods. It was in 2012 that Ramsey was cast for the CW?superhero show?Arrow?as John Diggle, an ex-military who is Oliver Queen’s (Stephen Amell) partner, confidant, and bodyguard. As part of the greater Arrowverse, Ramsey has reprised his role as Diggle on The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl and Batwoman, as well as portraying an alternate version of the character on the non-Arrowverse Superman & Lois.