Erich Silva: Erich Silva. Actor: Dogville. Erich Silva was born in New York City and grew up with his adopted artist mother who was a young black woman 18 years of age named Althea Dickerson. Erich moved around the United States with Althea throughout his childhood attending various schools in New Jersey, Boston, and California until finally settling down back in Harlem, New York City where he went on to attend the...