When British actor Damson Idris auditioned for the role of young street entrepreneur Franklin Saint in FX’s “Snowfall,” a drama set during the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic in 1980s ...

Snowfall | Wednesday, 10 p.m., FX Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) thought he had it made. A product of the rough streets of South Central LA, he carved out a niche for himself by becoming a drug deal… ...

Damson Idris took Franklin Saint from eager Compton kid to cold-blooded capitalist across six seasons of Snowfall. Courtesy of Ray Mickshaw.

Franklin lost all hope when he learned that Veronique, his partner and mother of his child, took $800,000—which is equivalent to $1.8 million today—out of his bank account and fled, leaving ...

Damson Idris was 23 when he got the part of Franklin Saint in “Snowfall.” “I came as a kid, and today I’ve got a show under my belt,” he said.