Detroit teen makes acting debut in TNT’s made-for-TV movie

Gregory Dockery II is a senior at Winans Academy of Performing Arts High School and a member of Detroit’s Mosaic Youth Theatre.Excerpt:”Gifted Hands” follows Carson’s life as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and uses flashbacks to show how his divorced mother helped him and his brother rise out of poverty and up to eventual greatness on Detroit’s west side. Curtis Carson is now an engineer while Dr. Ben Carson is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.Much of the movie was shot in and around Detroit last fall. Gregory says the scene where the family moves to a bigger, better home, for instance, was shot on location in a real person’s house in Highland Park.Read the entire article here.