Before ‘Fall of the House of Usher,’ Carl Lumbly Was the Backbone of ‘Alias’

If you tuned into the recently released Mike Flanagan Netflix series The Fall of the House of Usher, then you got to see C. Auguste Dupin, played by Carl Lumbly, give impassioned arguments against Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood) both inside and outside a courtroom. If you thought that the character looked familiar, you aren’t wrong. Before fighting for the U.S. government in the courtroom against the Usher family, Carl Lumbly played a character who fought for the U.S. in the field as a CIA operative. That character, of course, is Marcus Dixon from the hit TV series Alias. Created by J.J. Abrams, Alias follows Special Agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) as she works for the CIA to bring down various criminal elements — including a group she initially discovers she's been working for, called SD-6. Alongside Bristow are several other agents, one of which is Marcus Dixon. Like the character Lumbly portrays in The Fall of the House of Usher, Dixon is steadfast with his morality and over the course of five seasons, proves to be the very backbone of Alias.