CableACE Award – Actor in a Dramatic Series 1997 Oz – Kareem Said BFM Film & Television Awards – Best male performance in television 2002 Othello – John Othello Eamonn Walker (born 12 June 1959) is an English film, television and theatre actor. In the United States, he is known for playing Kareem Said in the HBO television series Oz, for which he won a CableACE Award, and as Winston, the gay, black thorn in Alf Garnett's side in In Sickness and in Health and John Othello in the 2001 ITV1 production of Othello..