A car buff, he owns both a Range Rover and a Bentley. (2006).
Attended San Mateo High School in San Mateo, California.
Enjoys golf, tennis and scuba diving in his spare time.
Graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA).
Grand marshal of the "Allstate 400 at the Brickyard" auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on 7 August 2005.
He has two children with Lynn Griffith: Charles Haysbert and Katharine Haysbert.
He is also a certified Deep Sea diver per Discovery Channel's Secrets of Pearl Harbor (2004) (TV), in June 2008, that he hosts, narrates and stars in.
He was a defensive end on his high school football team.
His parents were married for 51 years before his father's death.
In the photo caption for his San Mateo, California, high school yearbook, he cited having his face on the cover of Ebony and TV Guide as life goals, both of which he later achieved.
Lives in Malibu, California.
The eighth of nine children.
When he first moved to Los Angeles he worked in a grocery store and took classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. When he wasn't in class or working at the store, Haysbert says, he consumed any self-help book he could get his hands on, including How to Visualize What You Want and The Power of Positive Thinking.