Elliot Duvall

Name: Elliot Jameis Duvall
Portrayed by: Omari Hardwick
Parents: Harriet Duvall (mother), Russ Cooper (adopted father)
Siblings: Spencer Cooper (half-brother)
Spouse: Selina Delacroix (dating)
Children: Ezekiel Duvall (son)
Past Relationships: Dr. Monique Harding-Duvall (ex-wife)
Other relatives:
unknown
Occupation: Attorney
Written By: Kelly

Elliot was born and raised in the south side of Chicago in a rough neighborhood to his mother Harriet and her boyfriend at the time, he barely remembers his father and holds a lot or resentment for leaving him and his mother for another woman and family.  He grew up in poverty for the first few yeas of his life, living in cars and sometimes sleeping in shelters with his mother. When he was about four his mother met Russ Cooper and the two hit it off and they moved into a small apartment, he took on the duty of raising Elliot as his own and Elliot eventually came to accept him as his father while still resenting the man that abandoned him. His younger brother was born soon after his mother married Russ and he instantly took to loving his little brother, one night while his father was at work while he was in middle school police officers pulled them over on the way home from his basketball game. He watched helpless as they used excessive force on his mother humiliating her and one raping her in front of the car. The officers involved were never charged, he was horrified as was his younger brother it made him also untrustworthy of police in general and vowed that he would fight for civil justice.

Elliot attended Howard University where he excelled and got the highest marks and grades possible he could wanting to be top of his class during his junior year he earned a prestigious internship at Beecher and Saks law firm in Chicago where he interned under world renown lawyer Jeremiah Beecher where he learned that sometimes you had to play dirty as the others you were against to win. It was also the time that he began his civil rights activism and met Monique Harding. Once he graduated he and Monique married and she accepted a fellowship  Chicago Hospital and he was offered a junior partnership at Beecher and Saks, his son was born a year later. He quickly made a name for himself for the celebrity clients he took on and the cases he worked for pro bono involving police brutality and social justice, things came to a head for him professionally and in his marriage when he went to a demonstration with Monique and Zeke that turned violent quickly and Monique told him she could no longer support those ambitions. The two amicably divorced and he decided to leave Beecher Saks and start his own firm, when he saw Kendrick’s case on the news he decided to fly to Atlas Falls to bring a civil suit against Jon Harrison.

Season 2

Elliot faced off against Mason and Braden in the civil case against Jon and was cocky enough that he thought that he could actually pin murder on Jon and he as pissed when he lost. He and Mason faced off in the bathroom afterwards calling Mason names and expressing that due to the police assaulting his mom years ago he wanted revenge, Mason pointed out that he wanted revenge not justice and that was wrong to do to Jon. He opened up an office in the Scottswood neighborhood and began working a few cases still being mentored from Jeremiah Beecher in Chicago, he ran into Selina one day outside of her condo complex after Dimitri assaulted her and the two hit it off. He grew attracted to the outspoken businesswoman and the two agreed to date despite what he pulled when he came to town. Mason was wary of the relationship but he stuck it out going as far as to tell Selina revenge on Dimitri and DGI was hers to take if she wanted it he would help her. The two began to get serious at Jackson and Dani’s wedding where he revealed he was in love with her and then Dimitri knocked him out and she was kidnapped. He awoke to no memory of Dimitri taking Selina and bought her story that she escaped and told her he was staying in town and going to run against Braden as district attorney in the next election.