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Aldis Hodge, A 30-Year Acting Veteran At Age 32, On 'City On A Hill'

In the Showtime drama, the actor plays an assistant district attorney who teams up with a corrupt (and racist) FBI veteran in 1990s Boston. "We play the honesty of it," Hodge says.
In <em>City on a Hill, </em>Aldis Hodge plays Assistant District Attorney Decourcy Ward, who is new to the corrupt criminal justice system of 1990s Boston.

A new TV show, set in Boston in the 1990s, centers on some action-packed armored-car robberies. A crime drama in Boston: You've heard this before.

But City on a Hill, which premieres Sunday on Showtime, is aiming for distinction. It stars actor Aldis Hodge as a straight-and-narrow assistant district attorney working within a crooked justice system. He's new in town, and determined to take on these robbery cases.

"In order to do his job right, he has to kind of play their game and play kind of by their rules a little bit," Hodge

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