Nathan Purdee

Nathan Purdee born August 6 1950 in Tampa Florida is an American serial actor Purdees father was an officer in theUnited States Air Force and the family moved around many times After spending formative years in Washington DCBakersfield California and Kaiserslautern Germany he graduated from high school in Denver Colorado He now lives in Easton Pennsylvania He first rose to prominence as mobsterturnedprivate investigator Nathan Hastings on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless a role he portrayed from 1985 to 1992 His involvement on YR he was one of only two black cast members on the show in the late 1980s paved the way for more African American additions to the cast He left YR in December 1991 and moved to New York in January 1992 to play the role of District Attorney Hank Gannon on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live a role he would portray until 2003 Between YR and OLTL he portrayed Youngblood Superfly Priest in The Return of Superfly the third and final installment in the classic Superfly trilogy 1 On February 11 2009 it was announced he would be returning to One Life to Live in April 2009 He is President of the film and multimedia production company Karmic Release Ltd