Dancer, choreographer, and actor Geoffrey Holder was born on August 20, 1930 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, into a middle-class family of four children. He was taught painting and dancing by his older brother Boscoe Holder, whose dance troupe, the Holder Dance Company, the young Geoffrey joined when he was seven-years old. Geoffrey assumed direction of the company in the late 1940s after Boscoe moved to London.Holder moved to the United States in 1954, two years after being discovered by Agnes ...[Read Story]